India, June 28 -- Donald Trump's latest tirade, branding Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as "public enemy number one", is not just diplomatically reckless-it is symptomatic of a larger pattern of impulsive, performative politics that has defined his presidency. Tehran's foreign ministry rightly condemned this language as "disrespectful and condemnable", highlighting that anyone genuinely interested in reviving the nuclear accord would refrain from juvenile name-calling and instead propose concrete, verifiable steps on sanctions relief and oil exports. But Trump has never been one for nuance or statesmanship. He thrives on antagonism, not diplomacy-on applause lines, not peace accords.

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