A Trump summit with last of 'axis of evil' looks unlikely
by Shashank Bengali and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
Jun 15, 2018
4 minutes
TEHRAN, Iran - Iraq helped fight Islamic State and became a strategic U.S. partner in the Middle East. North Korea, of course, has just refreshed relations with the U.S., or at least with President Donald Trump, after a high-profile handshake and vague talk of denuclearization.
That leaves Iran, the other member of the so-called axis of evil, a term then-President George W. Bush famously used in 2002 to describe inveterate adversaries of the United States.
The Singapore summit between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was short on substance and could amount to nothing, analysts say. Yet, in Tehran, Trump's enthusiastic outreach to a rogue nation with
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