<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics & Policy Daily: Trump’s North Korea Playbook Isn’t Working on Iran
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(Leah Millis / Reuters)
“Call me,” Donald Trump to Iran’s leaders on Wednesday. Unsurprisingly, a top commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps no. But the exchange showed something interesting, : Trump had taken his North Korea playbook—using the language of maximum pressure while goading the foe’s leaders into joining him at the negotiating table—and applied it to Iran.
