Six months of war, rising oil prices and miserable polls: Donald Trump is getting deeper and deeper into the trap he has set himself in the Iran conflict. An "economic war" is now supposed to save what has not been achieved militarily.
The American president applies the same transactional logic to his foreign policy as that which allowed him to build his real estate empire. But in the face of an Iranian regime guided by ideology and a logic of survival, his pragmatism leads him to a dead end.