Former US negotiator with Iran: Trump falling into Vietnam trap
Al Jazeera · 18 May 2026

Former US negotiator with Iran: Trump falling into Vietnam trap

Rob Malley argues that current talks have ‘very small chance of success’. When United States President Donald Trump measures success by counting how many Iranian leaders the US and Israel have killed or how many Iranian boats or missile launchers have been destroyed, he’s looking at the “wrong metri


AI Translated Summary:
Rob Malley warns that Trump's approach to Iran mirrors the pitfalls of the Vietnam War, focusing on military successes rather than diplomatic solutions. He emphasizes that the current negotiations have a minimal chance of success under these conditions.


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