Trumps Iran deal gives the Islamic Republic big wins upfront and America nothing

Vice President JD Vance’s sales pitch for the Iran deal is simply terrible — but President Donald Trump’s may be worse.Maybe the reporting on what’s in the Memorandum of Understanding is wrong, but Team Trump keeps confirming some of the worst news.As best we can tell, the deal does nothing to achieve the aims America started the war with — but does hand Tehran a whole series of gains.Iran gets at least a few billion in immediate funds and can start selling oil right away, with at least some other sanctions dropped as well.More, Tehran wins unprecedented authority over the Strait of Hormuz and likely locks in Hezbollah’s dominance of Lebanon.Recall our goals: The prez opened combat seeking to permanently end Iran’s nuclear threat, and also eliminate its missiles and other offensive capabilities, and we also hoped for regime change.The bombing set back its nuke programs, took out a lot of missiles and missile factories and decapitated most of the regime’s top leadership.All the talks since the start of April have done nothing more — indeed, have only let new Iranian leaders rebuild and regroup, even as the populace suffers.Why think they’ll change in another 60 days of talking?Vance’s happy case is that the big prizes for Iran are contingent on its behavior; as he said on “Hannity”: “If they’re willing to behave like a normal country,” quit chasing nukes and funding terror, “then we are willing to actually fundamentally transform our relationship with them.”But that’s been true ever since the 1979 revolution, and the regime has never gone for it.Trump, talking with Qatar’s ruler (!), actually claimed the regime has changed, since we killed off so many leaders and those who wound up in charge “are very rational people,” “nice to deal with,” “not radicalized.”Huh? It’s the leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps calling the shots over there now — the goons most committed to the radical agenda.Vance, Steve...