How the Trump’s Iran agreement fails to achieve many of his goals | CNN Politics

When the Iran war began on February 28, President Donald Trump proclaimed that the US military would “destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground.” “It will be totally, again, obliterated,” Trump declared in a video. In the days that followed, his administration cast the obliteration of Iran’s missile program as a paramount goal for the war, given the threat that they said it posed to US bases and allies in the region. But now that Trump has a preliminary agreement with Iran, he’s sounding a very different note. Appearing at a press conference Wednesday at the end of the G7 summit in France, Trump suggested it was only fair that Iran be allowed some missiles. “They have to have some, because other people have some,” Trump said. He added that “missiles aren’t the problem” because “they don’t blow up the planet.” The president doubled down later, saying: “In relative proportion, I think it’s OK.” It was a remarkable about-face from Trump on what had been one of his biggest stated goals for the war. And it was far from the only reversal. In his apparent desperation to cut a deal to get out of the war, Trump has scaled back, se