We have a deal—of a sort. Unfortunately, any agreement we sign with Iran is likely to be tenuous at best. The heavily armed and exceedingly violent radical factions that Iran has been bankrolling for years—Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels, and Islamic Jihad among others—have a vested interest in continuing to fight because there is no money in amicable and neighborly relations. Car bombs, missile attacks, and shootings are money in the bank for terrorists, so it it highly unlikely they will lay down their arms and start selling Tupperware. It would, in fact, be no surprise if attacks both in the Middle East and around the globe increase in the wake of this week’s layered and caveat-laden agreement. Slaughter equals a steady paycheck. One might ask, of course, why the Iranian government doesn’t simply stop funding terrorists, but this would Read more