* The diplomatic option (negotiation and containment) is effective when conducted between parties, which consider negotiation as a step toward peaceful coexistence. However, as evidenced by its 46-year-old rogue track record (since toppling the pro-US Shah), the Ayatollah regime – just like ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the PLO/PA and Hezbollah – has employed negotiation as a tactic to advance its aim to topple the “apostate” Sunni regimes and bring the “infidel” West to submission.

 * Will the US sustain the 46-year-old self-destructive diplomatic option toward the Ayatollah regime, ignoring the fact that the latter is driven by a 1,400-year-old fanatical, religious ideology that transcends financial and diplomatic consideration, and mandates the toppling of all “apostate” Sunni regimes, and bringing the Western “infidel” – especially “the Great American Satan” – to submission? 

 * The diplomatic/negotiation option has played a key role in transforming Iran from “The American Policeman of the Gulf” into the leading global epicenter of anti-US wars, terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and the proliferation of advance military systems from the Persian Gulf, through the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, North and West Africa to Latin America and US soil.