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    Former US hostages in Iran say Trump's bellicose threats revive their 1979 trauma

    by Melissa Etehad, Los Angeles Times Jan 05, 2020 4 minutes

    President Trump warned Iran on Saturday that if it retaliated against the U.S. for killing Gen. Qassem Suleimani - one of Iran's highest-level military figures - it would come to deeply regret it.

    "Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge," Trump wrote. "Let this serve as a warning that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago)."

    In making such bellicose threats, Trump has reopened deep-seated wounds from the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-81.

    Trump's tweet also amplified feelings of anxiety

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