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30 June 2019
Trump Keeps ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran, Even Though It Is Failing in Venezuela
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Neil Bhatiya
Escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf
peaked last week when President Donald Trump
abruptly canceled U.S. airstrikes
against Iranian military assets, after Iran shot down an unmanned American surveillance drone over the Gulf of Oman. Trump’s ordering of military strikes, only to change his mind apparently at the last moment, has raised more questions about the administration’s strategy toward Iran and its ultimate goals. Trump’s decision to call off the airstrikes seemed to indicate that he doesn’t see a military solution to this growing crisis, even though that view was thrown for a loop Tuesday when Trump warned on Twitter that
“Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration.”
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