Two months, two tracks: How Trump chose war with Iran

Two months, two tracks: How Trump chose war with Iran

As Israeli bombs fell on the supreme leader's compound in Tehran on Saturday morning, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was meeting above ground with several of his top advisers.He never saw it coming.Why it matters: The joint U.S.-Israeli operation that killed Khamenei was the culmination of two months in which President Trump pursued both diplomacy and war — on parallel tracks. On Friday, he chose war.The crisis, which began with the public uprising in Iran in late December, was vintage Trump — full of t...

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