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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sam Kiley

By dragging the US into Iran, Trump risks giving Tehran the final showdown it wants

In the feverish rhetoric of this new age of chaos, Donald Trump has upped the temperature dangerously close to delirium with a threat to kill the supreme leader of Iran – not yet, but maybe – and Trump knows where he’s hiding.

Iran has, inevitably, hit back with a counter-threat that if the US joins Israel in its attacks, there will be all-out war in the Middle East.

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