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🇺🇸 TRUMP'S THREATS AGAINST IRAN AREN'T NEW. CLINTON RAN THE SAME PLAYBOOK WITH SERBIA. When Trump made statements threatening the destruction of Iran that many called genocidal, the coverage treated it as something unprecedented. It isn't. The rhetoric has a template... and it came out of the Clinton White House. During the Yugoslav wars, Thomas Friedman published a column in the New York Times that read like a direct threat to the Serbian people. Not the government, the people. The message was blunt: ‘We’re at war with the Serbian people, not the Serbian gov. You want 1950, we can do 1950. You want 1389, we can do 1389. If you don’t capitulate’ That's threatening to erase centuries of civilization. A professor and former policy analyst tells us Clinton almost certainly used Friedman as the messenger. A way to put maximum psychological pressure on Belgrade through a trusted media voice while maintaining plausible deniability at the White House level. It worked. Serbia capitulated. The pattern is the same. Inflammatory rhetoric aimed at a civilian population, laundered through credible public figures, designed to break will rather than just destroy military capacity. The difference is Clinton used a columnist. Trump just said it himself. One was considered statecraft. The other is called dangerous. The strategy though was identical.

BREAKING: The US has agreed to 'release Iranian frozen assets held in Qatar and other foreign banks' and this is 'directly linked to ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz', according to Reuters report.