The threat was naked, and the world heard it. In one breath, Trump dangled peace — in the next, he promised to turn Iran’s lifeblood to fire. Oil wells. Power plants. Kharg Island. Nothing off-limits. As bombs already light Tehran’s sky, he insists a “more reasonable” regime is near, but if the Strait stays closed, if talks stall, if one more American is hit, the response, he vows, will be total oblite… Continues… Trump’s message is a volatile mix of promise and menace: a “probably” imminent deal with what he calls a new, more reasonable regime in Tehran, shadowed by...
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