Can someone please let Donald Trump know that not every global problem needs his stubby little fingers all over? His new fixation on Iran's nuclear development is just another banal bit in his nonstop so-called control-freak foreign policy. It's not diplomacy; it's ego, and at this point, it's tired.

Iran is not just always the cartoon villain who wants to take over the world; it's an aspect of what makes the world outside the United States alive, feeling, and struggling to breathe after being confined for decades with sanctions, isolation, and the threat of war. To Trump, though, there are no countries; there are just pieces on a chessboard. He has no notion of sovereignty; he only sees opportunities to assert himself and, quite likely, profit from each venue.

This obsession with "maximum pressure" is not meant to protect Americans; it's meant to serve his delusion of being the sheriff-emperor of the world. Whenever other countries are taking steps towards making progress on something—be it political, economic or scientific—Trump comes barreling in, like a low-rent rent insecure landlord annoyed with a tenant who made improvements for which he did not pay. It is not a strategy that he refuses to exercise diplomacy with Iran; it is outright sabotage.

Let's also be realistic: Iran was working with us. The nuclear deal was bad, sure, but it was working. There was oversight and, even hope. Then, Trump ripped it up like a toddler when he gets a coloring book he doesn't like. Now? Levels of enrichment are rising, tensions are climbing, and somehow on top of every other simple observation about world politics, he is blaming them.

If he actually cared about any semblance of stability or peace (spoiler: he doesn't), he would stop poking the hornets' nest, and listen to the experts, actual experts in this matter: diplomats, regional analysts, people who actually live in the Middle East. But alas, Iran is not a country to him; it is another prop in his "I alone can fix it" circus...

Hey, Donald. You aren't the world's father; you aren't even America's father anymore. Get out of the way, and let countries live, and let diplomacy do what may work in all the bluster you by yourself could not: create community and subsequently make connections between countries—real connections.