Caitlin Oprysko, Wesley Morgan and Nancy Cook, Politico: Drumbeat of Iran war grows louder as Trump ratchets up pressure
The Trump administration has been publicly building a case against Iran, releasing video evidence of apparent provocations as the president warns, “We don’t take it lightly.”
The drumbeat of war between the United States and Iran grew louder on Friday as President Donald Trump flatly rejected Tehran’s insistence that it had nothing to do with a pair of oil tanker explosions this week.
“We don’t take it lightly,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.” “They are a nation of terror and they've changed a lot since I've been president, I can tell you. They were unstoppable and now they are in deep, deep trouble.”
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 14, 2019
Iran attacks leave Trump and aides divided, with no clear strategy -- AFP
A Tanker War in the Middle East—Again? -- Robin Wright, New Yorker
U.S. and Gulf allies face tough task protecting oil shipping lanes -- Ghaida Ghantous and Rania El Gamal, Reuters
The Strategic Threat from Iranian Hybrid Warfare in the Gulf -- Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS
A U.S.-Iran War Would Be All Sorts of Awful -- War is Boring/National Interest
Oil tanker attacks echo Persian Gulf’s 1980s ‘Tanker War’ -- Jon Gambrell, AP
China has a new US trade war weapon, but who and what will be covered, and how will it be enforced? -- Zhou Xin and Frank Tang, SCMP
Tiananmen Square anniversary shows Mao's legacy lives on -- Stan Grant, ABC News Online
Meet Myanmar's Blue Shirts -- Lorcan Lovett, The Diplomat
Remaking al-Bashir’s Regime in Sudan -- Abdulaziz Kilani, Lobe Log
Russia and the West Agree on Moldova -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Report: Russia Exploits Western Legal Systems, Institutions To Its Advantage -- Sasha Ingber, NPR
German Youth: Running Low On Hope -- Torsten Krauel, World Crunch
Why are the Western middle classes so angry? -- Victor Davis Hanson, Washington times
America’s Unusual Recovery is Now Also its Longest -- Mohamed A. El-Erian, Project Syndicate
Dirty money: it’s a Canadian thing -- Jason Kirby, Macleans
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