Bobby Ghosh: Every day Europe dithers brings Iran more enriched uranium
(WorldNews Iran)

If the administration of President Donald Trump did indeed try to bully Europe into doing the right thing on Iran´s dangerous brinkmanship, this reflects poorly on both sides. Threatening Germany, France and Britain with a tariff on automobile exports to the U.S. is the diplomatic equivalent of a nuclear option - the more egregious for being invoked against close allies. But while the Europeans certainly didn´t deserve to be blackmailed by Washington, their invertebrate response to blackmail by Tehran dilutes sympathy for their predicament. The influence of the tariff threat on the European decision to trigger a dispute mechanism in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran is hard to know. They met...