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There are growing tensions in the conservative movement over whether President Donald Trump should agree to a new nuclear deal with Iran or use force against it.
The president had a dream of being a prize-winning peacemaker. Now he may enter the nightmare of America fighting yet another war.
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Tactics without strategy: How Trump’s weakness and Netanyahu’s self-interest exploded in IranThe attacks bore the twin hallmarks of Israeli military actions under Netanyahu: Tactically brilliant but lacking any strategic vision
Plumes of smoke rose over central Tel Aviv and at least one building was hit and set ablaze. Israel said fewer than 100 rockets had been fired from Iran. Israel's Channel 12 said two people were critically injured, eight moderately and 34 slightly from shrapnel..
"There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end," Trump wrote on social media June 13 after the attacks.
Iranian military chiefs and nuclear scientists among those killed in what Iran's foreign minister calls a "declaration of war".
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From LA to Gaza, Jane Harman explains how President Donald Trump has made the U.S. less secure at home and abroad.
President Trump and his entire top foreign policy team huddled in Camp David for hours on Sunday to discuss U.S. strategy on the Iran nuclear crisis and the war in Gaza, two U.S. officials and another source with knowledge tell Axios.
The president said he would bring a quick end to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and get China to bend on trade and Iran on its nuclear program. Instead, conflict is escalating.
"Iran's going to have to negotiate a little bit tougher, meaning they're going to have to give us something they're not willing to give us right now," said Trump.