Donald Trump’s aircraft carrier strike group looks poised to strike Iran. On January 28, a Hezbollah official delivered a warning that strikes could “trigger a volcano in the region”. As former US defence official Dana Stroul told the paper:There’s nothing about the Venezuela playbook that could be applied to Iran. Inside Iraq, Maliki is widely viewed as an Iranian lackey and by Washington as Iran’s right hand man. It’s unclear whether he will strike Iran, but could that pave the way for imminent negotiations to forge a new nuclear deal?