As a new year’s wave of street protests rocks Iran, the demonstrations put President Donald Trump in an awkward bind—right as he faces a new deadline to decide whether to continue with the Iran nuclear deal he loathes.

By the end of this week, in fact, the president who called that agreement the “worst deal ever”—and refused, despite the evidence, to certify Iranian compliance with it—is expected to once again keep the deal alive by waiving U.S. sanctions on the Iranian government that were suspended when the agreement was made.

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