Ali Vaez, director of Crisis Group’s Iran desk, does not seem to know his history very well. Consider Vaez’s Thursday tweet suggesting that Iran wouldn’t be blowing stuff up in the Gulf of Oman if President Trump were only nicer.
Told the inimitable @wrightr: If Iran is the culprit, the Trump Administration has only itself to blame for pushing Tehran to take aggressive steps that it has eschewed since the worst days of the Iran-Iraq War https://t.co/sYTewthi6h
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