How Trump played into hands of Iran's hardliners by nixing the nuke deal

Things were looking up for Iranians like Mohammad Reza Azali. Two months after the nuclear deal was struck in 2015, he started an English-language technology news website in Tehran as the reformist politicians he supported opened up the country.

Then came the election of Donald Trump.

The U.S. president’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the agreement has given succour to the hard-line skeptics whose mantra all along has been that you can't trust the Americans. It leaves the Islamic Republic torn between those who want change like 30-year-old Azali and those who want to take the country down a more conservative