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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

House Speaker Mike Johnson still says US isn’t at war with Iran — troop deployments be damned

It may not have the official title, but President Donald Trump’s military venture in Iran is beginning to have all the trappings of a capital-W war.

On Tuesday evening, news reports emerged that the Pentagon will dispatch members of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned that Trump was prepared to “unleash hell” if Tehran did not come to the negotiating table.

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