I'm still chewing on this "deal" and trying to figure out what the strategy is supposed to be, obviously given a shortage of information

I'm starting to think it's similar to Reagan's strategy that choked the Soviet Union, which Aleksandr Dugin describes as an Atlanticist "anaconda." - James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames

The rough idea of the "anaconda" strategy is that of a constrictor snake. It doesn't bite except to control small parts at necessity. It squeezes. And it doesn't just crush. It tightens, puts pressure, and when the target squirms, it tightens again. This continues until the target is suffocated...

The way he says it happened is by controlling all the regions around the target (then: USSR) and by increasing various demands and sanctions to crush the target. 

• There's no striking (like biting) except in the narrow sense to punish specific transgression. 
• It's just fatally expensive for the target to move.

So this plan might actually be meant to work this way against the Iranian Regime, with a few updated caveats because Trump's geopolitical strategy and Reagan's aren't the same, for good reasons...

James Lindsay