Trump and Iran: The beginning of a war or just microphone noise?

What does it mean for Donald Trump to choose Ankara—politically and geographically the closest major capital to Iran—to declare that the memorandum of understanding with Tehran “is over,” and that he no longer wishes to “deal with sick leaders”? Is this simply another burst of anger from a president known for saying one thing in the evening and contradicting it the next morning? Or does the place and the moment carry deeper significance than a passing remark on the sidelines of a NATO summit? Ankara is not a neutral city in the map of the Iran–U.S. confrontation. It is the capital of a country whose interests intersect with Tehran in several files, compete with it in others, and oscillate between […]