The Middle East is changing unpredictably from one week to the next. It is clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is determined to achieve his objectives of ending Iran’s nuclear military aspirations and its sponsorship of terrorist activity especially on the borders of Israel but also across the world, and he is determined that Iran not interrupt the flow of oil from the Middle East, even though the United States is not much affected by it. It is also clear that he will go to considerable lengths to achieve his objectives without inflicting terrible violence on the unoffending and long-suffering civil population of Iran.
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