Iran is noting that if Israel keeps on attacking the terrorist group Hezbollah, future talks will be meaningless. Well, that's a nice way for Iran--and their sponsor Russia--to admit that when Hezbollah launches attacks on Israel, the reprisals ought to be in Teheran, not Lebanon and Syria.
Really, my thought is that by not making the case for reprisals on Iran itself, Trump has shot himself in the foot, and if we openly had a policy "you attack in Israel, we respond in Iran", this kind of nonsense would stop quickly. Hezbollah is, sad to say, more or less a gambit that Iran plays to attack Israel, and when the pain is suffered in Iran, the mullahs will start to realize that we mean business.
Update: I just remembered a story I learned way back in college European history class. Apparently in the late 1800s, German nationalists were very concerned that the larger French garrison near Cameroon would allow the French to take the German colony. Chancellor Otto von Bismark responded by saying "That would be an act of war, no?", and when they replied in the affirmative, he's said to have said "Then if France desires war, they shall have war--on the Rhine.". And there were no attacks in Cameroon until there was a very active war on the west side of the Rhine. It is critically important that the instigators of problems feel them where they care the most.
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