Obama had his policy, the Saudis, Qataris had theirs along with Neocons.......Perhaps they knew what their end game was.
Opening up Iran and lifting sanctions meant American companies could do some business there. The GOP enabled the Iran deal with the 2/3 threshold to kill it in the Corker Bill.
Boeing was cited as an example by Rush Limbaugh. Spare parts for all of their planes and so on sold back in the days of the Shah.
But the isolation policy of the “Arab Spring” revolutions would compensate for the strengthened Iran by cutting if off from allies plus some other things happening in the defense industry.
While Iran is developing nuclear weapons, its no secret Israel and the United States (with Obama’s approval) are jointly developing anti ballistic missile technology.
I’ve read that Israel’s short range anti-missile technology is set to go to the Gulf region through an American company as a defensive measure against Iran.
Boeing is also selling aircraft to the Gulf with Kuwait and Qatar getting planes to oppose Iran.
As the ABM technology rolls out in Israel it will create a ‘balance of power’ in the region.
And now after Obama did what he did with Republican help (Corker Bill) and the business community made its $$$$ dealing with Iran, the sanctions are set to be put up again by Trump and the new GOP Congress.