What Was It For?

In his first term, Trump scrapped the 2015 Obama-era nuclear accord known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which was in force between 2016 and 2018 and the White House has been on a PR offensive since the details of this deal came out because all it does, at the cost of thousands of lives, is put us back to where we were on February 27th, the day before the ill judged bombing started.
Iran may be asked to reaffirm that it will not acquire a nuclear weapon but then that’s what it's been saying for years anyway and even repeated it during the February talks in Geneva when the Strait of Hormuz was open for shipping and American and Iranian negotiators were discussing a nuclear deal so the question must be what exactly the war was for?
Israel has been gunning for Iran for decades and persuaded Trump that by killing the supreme leader on the first day, it would cause a collapse of the undoubtedly corrupt and highly repressive regime but it has not just survived but has been empowered as it has now discovered the power of controlling a global economic chokehold is a far more usable, and much cheaper, weapon than a nuclear program.
In return for reopening the Strait, the MOU's language says the US will lift its counter blockade of Iranian ports, waive sanctions allowing Iran to earn billions of dollars from exporting oil and start the process of returning billions more to Iran by unfreezing assets that it held abroad.
When they went to war President Trump said the regime in Tehran would fall and told the Iranian people to prepare for a once-in-a-generation chance to take back their country and not long after that he called for its unconditional surrender but what we ended up with is a memorandum of understanding which is an agreement to talk about Iran's nuclear program while handing key inducements for Iran. If the talks progress, the US has said it will lift sanctions and hand over a reconstruction fund for Iran worth at least $300bn.
No amount of White House spin will make anyone think that America and Israel have made any gains from what we had with JCPOA in 2016 and even what we had on February 27th but with Israel and the USA licking their wounds and the thick end of $114 billion of taxpayers money spent, I would guess Iran must be feeling quite pleased about this deal.