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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Trump threatens new Iran escalation and risks repeating old mistakes

Washington: President Donald Trump has ramped up U.S. air strikes on Iran and threatened broader escalation, but there is little sign that a military strategy that has already failed to extract concessions from Tehran ​will succeed this time.

With the collapse of an interim ceasefire deal reached a month ​ago, Trump - unable to disentangle the U.S. from the unpopular war he started - finds himself in a bind as he seeks to break Iran's grip on ​the vital Strait of Hormuz and bend a defiant Tehran to his will.

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