The optics for a president could not be worse: handing over billions of dollars to the very regime America has been at war against.

There is a reason why no US President has tried to do what Donald Trump has attempted in Iran - and that is why he is staring into the abyss of humiliating defeat

Even the President won't be able to spin his way out of this one

The optics for a president could not be worse: handing over billions of dollars to the very regime America has been at war against.

For a president who promised victory, the transfer of frozen funds seems less like a decisive military campaign and more like a ransom payout to stop the bleeding.