No one here is making excuses for Iran.
We're debating how best to curtail the nuclear ambitions of a rogue state.
The options seem to be a) do nothing until b) military strike at significant risk of regional/global destabilization or c) come to some sort of agreement, however imperfect, that attempts to put some kind of limits on them, with penalties.
All options may end in b), but c) certainly seems to be preferable to a).
And, if we're gonna talk about Bibi "teetering on dictatorship," what about Trump?
I am far from a progressive, historically. I voted GOP for 35 years, with increasing hesitancy and discomfort as the culture war bullshit heated up. I cannot stand Trump, "personally," and his policies and administration are complete horseshit. He fucked up the Iran deal by not at least pursuing a dialog because he's a petty cunt.
With respect to immigration, he deliberately, again because he's a petty cunt, torpedoed the most significant reform in nearly a half century.
The vast majority of the CR, the "leftist cabal," more resembles me than "progressives."