Iran has begun observing 40 days of mourning for those killed in the massacre, as U.S. President Donald Trump said the deadline for talks with Tehran is “within the next month” — and a possible reason for that timetable may now be emerging. According to an assessment cited by the Daily Mail, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, which the United States has decided to deploy to the Middle...

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US President Donald Trump said on Friday that a change of government in Iran would be the “best thing that could happen”, as he sent a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East to ratchet up military pressure on the Islamic republic. Trump’s comments were his most overt call yet for the toppling of Iran’s clerical establishment, and came as he pushes on Washington’s arch-foe Tehran to make a...

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The president of the United States is again threatening Iran’s leaders as the Pentagon continues building up forces in the Middle East and preparing for possible war if no agreement is reached. On Friday, when asked about regime change, President Donald Trump said it “would be the best thing that could happen”, arguing that Iran’s leaders have spent 47 years “talking and talking and talking....

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The last time airstrikes succeeded in bringing down a tyrannical regime was in 1999. The backdrop was widespread opposition in Western countries to the brutal ethnic cleansing carried out by Yugoslavia against the Albanian minority in Kosovo, then a province of Serbia within Yugoslavia. After diplomatic efforts to halt the massacres and expulsions in Kosovo failed, NATO (the North Atlantic...

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After Operation Rising Lion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that Israel had removed two immediate existential threats : the threat of nuclear annihilation and, in his words, the threat of annihilation by 20,000 ballistic missiles. “Had we not acted now, the State of Israel would soon have faced the danger of destruction,” Netanyahu said. Eight months later, Israel is once again...

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