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Trump Is No Closer to Solving America’s Iran Problem

The president declared victory today, but he still hasn’t laid out how he intends to keep Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

President Donald Trump’s first formal remarks since the targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani underscored the strange reality of the moment’s crisis: After a chaotic and often terrifying week, it’s not clear that anything has changed.

“As long as I’m president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said today before he’d even offered a

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