You cannot make a deal with a regime that lies as a strategic weapon

I have been watching reports of negotiations between President Trump’s administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran with an anguish that is difficult to put into words. I want to believe that my president understands what he is dealing with. I want to believe that this time will be different. I want to believe that he understands what I know as the truth about the Islamic Republic: that you can never negotiate with them, and they will always lie and do anything to stay in power, and in control of more than 90 million Iranians.

I have never lived in the White House, but I have lived inside t...