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Trump signalling willing to absorb the Iranian missile strikes because no American or Iraqi casualties. repeats longstanding US position Iran won’t get a nuclear weapon.
Trump: Powerful sanctions will remain until Iran changes its behavior.
reiterates his bulldoo about the Iran nuclear deal.
Trump seems to misspeak: the very effective JCPOA expires soon anyway.
time come for P4+1 to recognize, says they should breakaway from Jcpoa.
sounds like Pence had a hand in this speech, Trump call on E3, Russia and China to abandon jcpoa, echoes Pence calls for same in Munich last year, went over like a lead balloon
Trump: ISIS is an enemy of Iran. Trump says we should work together on this shared priority. (!)
Wonder who had a hand in Trump remark that Iran and US share priority of fighting ISIS, should work together on shared goal.
Update: transcript indicates he said “defective”
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Laura Rozen
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the impulsiveness of the Trump action and sense of Trump’s erraticness in national security policy in ways that could endanger US lives without a whole lot of thought of what’s next or any Congressional consultation (besides Lindsey Graham who showed up at Mar a Lago)...
...think it could end up politically benefitting the Democratic field, particularly Biden and Sanders, who exercise judgement and impulse control, the opposite of this Trump lurching and erraticness, and have coherent worldviews they are able to explain.
Sharp Trump escalation v Iran in Iraq over past couple weeks of his extended & continuing Palm Beach vacation seems overly influenced by whomever he is dining and golfing with at Mar a Lago and he has barely emerged to explain it save few words to press pool at his NYE party
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Laura Rozen
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Tim Kaine "As I have warned for years, Trump’s decision to tear up a diplomatic deal that was working and resume escalating aggressions with Iran has brought us to the brink of another war in the Middle East. 1/
Kaine, cont'd: Qassim Suleimani was a despicable killer, but this drastic escalation of hostilities...without congressional authorization will increase the threat to American troops, diplomats, & families in the region. 2/
Kaine, cont'd: "Trump's ‘maximum pressure’ campaign has made the region less stable, divided us from key allies, and is driving our adversaries together. Congress must act to stop President Trump from entangling America in yet another unnecessary war in the Middle East.” 3/3
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Laura Rozen
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Rep. Seth Moulton (D Mass.): Qasem Soleimani was an enemy of the United States with American blood on his hands. But the question we've grappled with for years in Iraq was how to kill more terrorists than we create. That’s an open question tonight as we await Iran’s reaction 1/
Moulton, contd: to Donald Trump’s escalation, which could ignite a regional war, with still no strategy from the Administration. Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign and shredding of the Iran Nuclear Deal has so far succeeded in increasing Iranian attacks on the US and our allies
Moulton, contd: led Iran to restart its nuclear program, & further empowered hardliners in the Iranian government—on every count, the precise opposite of what we need & what the Admin itself says it is trying to achieve..Admin needs to explain what strategy is & what happens next
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Elijah J. Magnier
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#Iran launches 'more than a dozen ballistic missiles' at #US targets in #Iraq, Pentagon confirms
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Trump, in his first comments after the strikes, also sought to play them down.
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Iran has started its "second round" of attacks against US bases in Iraq - per Iran’s Tasnim news
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1: The key here is the reaction of the people.

Most Iraqis don't like the Iranians and the Iranian influence. The anti govt protests there were against a govt controlled by the Iranians and against the Iranians themselves. The PMUs were the ones using snipers to shoot protesters
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If conflict starts, It'll be a regional war including Israel, Hezboallah, etc
3: Let's not even talk about the price of oil if conflict starts. This is the oil hub of the world & doesn't matter is a country is self sufficient in oil or not. Oil follows an international price. So if the fireworks go in big scale, oil will skyrocket & the economy 👎
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