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    Trump Goes From Threatening Iran to Threatening the World

    In a tweet, the president suggested countries have to choose: Iran or America.
    by Krishnadev Calamur Aug 07, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    Donald Trump and his advisers have a consistent record of confronting and threatening Iran, most prominently by withdrawing from the nuclear deal. But on Tuesday, Trump expanded the threats against Iran to all those who do business with the country, declaring on Twitter they “will NOT be doing business with the United States.”

    If taken literally, this would mean a new front in America’s economic battle with the Europeans, who have remained in the nuclear agreement—not to mention many other countries around the world determined to do business in Iran.

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