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This is excellent analysis from @sianamazi. Money quote: "Countdown narratives...tempt policymakers into believing that economic pain automatically produces political leverage or capitulation — and that once a threshold is crossed, strategic concession will follow. That is not always the case, especially with a regime that has repeatedly shown little regard for the welfare of its own people." mei.edu/publication/wh…


U.S. President Trump says Iran just has to say we give up.


"I predict they come back and they give us everything we want," Trump tells Fox News.


U.S. official says the strikes on Kharg island, in the early morning hours Tuesday EST, were not directed at oil infrastructure, but were "re-strikes" on military targets that were hit previously


























