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“The policy is not regime change but we definitely want to put maximum pressure on the government,” John Bolton says of reinstated Iran sanctions.

US wants Iran to retreat from terrorism, military activity in Mid East, ballistic missile nuclear-related program, he said on Fox.
US isn’t going to relax sanctions on North Korea on their say-so, Trump’s national security adviser said on Fox News.

Bolton used the phrase Trump in June said he didn’t want to use anymore.

“We’ll continue to apply maximum pressure to North Korea,” Bolton said today.
Asked about the “second meeting” with Kim Jong Un that Trump tweeted about last month, John Bolton on Fox News said nothing scheduled.

But Trump in his most recent letter to Kim said Pompeo’s prepared to go back to North Korea to meet, and Trump’s prepared to meet at any point.
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Pence, in a briefing with reporters, says he's hopeful the shutdown can be resolved, but Democratic leaders need to accept Trump's invitation to come back to the WH this week "and start negotiating."
The reason Trump is asking for more money now for the border than in his proposed budget is because "things have gotten a lot worse," Pence says. Even the @washingtonpost reported over the weekend there's a "bonafide" crisis, he says.
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BREAKING: Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell as his frustration has intensified after this week’s interest-rate increase and months of stock-market losses.

Advisers close to Trump aren’t convinced he will try to do it, but say he wants to.
Trump has talked privately about wanting to fire the Fed chair many times in past few days.

Any such attempt would have potentially devastating ripple effects on markets, undermining investors’ confidence in Fed’s ability to shepherd the economy without political interference.
It’s unclear how much legal authority the president has to fire Jay Powell.

And at least one of Trump’s economic advisers, Kudlow, has said a president can’t fire Federal Reserve chair without cause.

That hasn’t stopped Trump from expressing his desire to get rid of Powell.
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"After cheating the IRS for years, lying to banks and to Congress, and seeking to criminally influence the presidential election, Cohen’s decision to plead guilty--rather than seek a pardon for his manifold crimes--does not make him a hero," NY prosecutors said in court papers.
MICHAEL COHEN in court: "I take full responsibility for each act."
COHEN, audibly emotional, says to people of US: "You deserve to know the truth and lying to you was unjust.”

Trump "publicly mocks me, calling me a rat and a liar.''

Cohen says wants to ensure that when history of Trump is written Cohen not recorded as "villain of his story."
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#Iran's Transfer of Arms to Proxy Groups and Ongoing Missile Development

Special Rep. for Iran Brian Hook unveiling new evidence of the Iranian regime's malign activities in the Middle East.
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 Special Rep. for Iran Brian Hook:

#Iran, an outlaw regime, has increased its malign support for the Houthis & other proxy groups across the Middle East.
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Tehran sought to deliver it the Houthis to target Coalition aircrafts.
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 Special Rep. for Iran Brian Hook:

Saudi forces have confiscated two types of #Iran-made anti-tank missiles.
Afghan forces have found Iran-made rockets & a new unmanned aerial system provided by Tehran to militia groups in Afghanistan.
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US Special Representative for #Iran Brian Hook:
Iranian tankers are now a floating liability after new U.S. sanctions. Self-insured oil tankers are prone to accidents.
US Special Representative for #Iran Brian Hook:
International insurers will no longer be insuring Iranian tankers.
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US Special Representative for #Iran Brian Hook:
Iranian tankers are turning off their signal transmitters, violating international law & posing grave risks and dangers. Up to a dozen Iranian tankers have turned off their transponders. Iran is trying to evade tankers.
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 Let’s talk about a recent @WashingtonPost editorial aiming to throw a lifeline to #Iran’s regime, just days before crippling U.S. sanctions are set to target the mullahs’ oil & banking sectors.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
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 WaPo calls for U.S. policy to seek “peace, including with Israel; economic modernization; and religious tolerance and human rights.”

The only problem (which WaPo is aware of) is that #Iran’s regime has gone the limits in the past four decades to prevent just that.
3)
 Known facts:

-Iran’s regime supports terrorists groups across the region.
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THREAD

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 "Right now, Iran’s economy is in significant trouble, and cutting it off from the SWIFT network would ratchet up pressure on the regime."

Obama sanctioned #Iran from SWIFT.
Trump's sanctions should not be weaker.
washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-…
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 "Allowing them to maintain access would be like throwing the regime a life vest."
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 "Nothing official has been announced yet, and it’s possible Trump will end up going all in on sanctions. He has, in the past, been known to disregard the advice of Cabinet officials and go with his gut instincts..."
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THREAD: As protests continue and the rial tumbles, #Iran is increasingly seen as an economic basket case that has squandered its chance to join the ranks of the #BRICs. Here are 7 charts that challenge that view.
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This is the same reaction to the same macroeconomic failures. The frustrated cry of the Iranian protestor is the same cry as that of the Brazilian protestor. Sure, there is some local political and economic dialect. But the language of corruption and inequality is the same.
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Iran is signaling that it will buck U.S. efforts to roll back its military presence in the Middle East, moving to cement foreign alliances and continuing to project power abroad despite sanctions that have helped put intense pressure on its economy. wsj.com/articles/iran-…
Tehran signed a long-term security pact with Syria in August, and has kept up the flow of arms and financial support to proxy forces around the region.
U.S. of­fi­cials ac­knowl­edge #Iran hasn’t stepped back from its as­sertive pos­ture and say Iran­ian ship­ments of mis­siles and some ad­vanced arms around the re­gion have even ac­cel­er­ated. But they also note that the tough­est sanc­tions are yet to come...
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