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    Iran Isn’t Taking Trump’s Twitter Bait—For Now

    But with economic pressure on Tehran rising and the White House itching for a fight, that restraint may not last.
    by Suzanne Maloney Jul 25, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Ray Stubblebine / Reuters

    Just hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered an address billed as a show of friendship to the Iranian people, President Donald Trump offered up a late-night chaser: an all-caps tweet warning that any Iranian threats would precipitate “CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE.”

    Tehran’s response came hours later, in the form of a tweet written by Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister and its most effective purveyor of diplomatic blandishments aimed at Western audiences. “,” Zarif, emphasizing Iran’s while also appearing to disruptive approach to foreign policy. Still, for a leadership that has trademarked the art of anti-American invective, the reaction seems oddly subdued.

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