The cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal has been unstuck, but Team Biden’s Middle East policy is still bogged down, going nowhere. In a best case scenario, we can look forward to months of fruitless negotiations with Iran that finally produce … nothing.
Biden ran for the presidency declaring he would reenter the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). It is now clear that he had no plan on how to do that.
Instead, we’ve had more than two months of “shuttle diplomacy” that looked like a game of diplomatic blind…