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President Trump’s policy toward Iran has long been been harsh and unyielding, pressuring the country to give up its nuclear ambitions and drive to control the region’s politics. With the U.S. killing of a high-level Iranian official last Friday, the White House has moved closer to war with Iran. The event also laid bare, writes foreign policy scholar Klaus Larres at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the failure of
Trump’s approach.
Iran, writes Larres, has turned the tables and has put pressure on a freshly impeached U.S. president whose reelection is not assured and whose international diplomatic isolation and weakness is no secret.
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Iranian worshippers attend a mourning prayer for slain Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Qassem Soleimani in Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Jan. 3, 2020.
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Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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