Maybe Trump Should Stop Using Twitter to Threaten Nations With Nuclear Programs
Trump’s Iran policy doesn’t seem to be working out very well.
Since he pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration, Iran has both resumed its nuclear program and found new ways to stir up trouble in the region. The latest provocation came on Friday, when a rocket attack against a base housing American troops in Iraq killed an American contractor. The U.S. blamed an Iran-backed group of militants, launching airstrikes against the group on Sunday. Tension continued to escalate on New Year’s Eve, when Iran-backed protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Trump tweeted from Mar-a-Lago that Iran would be held responsible for any lives lost, threatening that the nation would pay a “BIG PRICE!”
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, responded a day later, tweeting, “You can’t do anything.”
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What the U.S. has done in response to the siege is deploy around 750 troops to the Middle East. Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced the move, which was ordered by Trump, on Tuesday night. “This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action taken in response to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities, such as we witnessed in Baghdad today,” Esper said in a statement. “The United States will protect our people and interests anywhere they are found around the world.”
“We had some great warriors come in,” Trump said from Mar-a-Lago. “This will not be a Benghazi. They got in there very quickly.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-twitter-threats-iran-north-korea-932834/
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