New Delhi, April 18 -- Foreign Affairs Expert Robinder Sachdev said that the demand for a powerful visual "win" is at the heart of the current US-Iran standoff, suggesting that Washington's position is being shaped as much by optics as by strategy. He said US President Donald Trump is seeking a symbolic moment that can be projected globally as a decisive achievement.

In an interview with ANI, Sachdev said, "The prize that President Trump now wants is a photograph of drums of Iranian enriched uranium on the tarmac of the Tehran airport and an American military plane sitting there, these drums being loaded and taken away. That is the prize that Donald Trump wants now. He can then claim, 'I have taken out the uranium from Iran." He added th...