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Conrad Black: How Trump can defang Iran
It is entirely within this president's capabilities to decisively win the war, adding to his long list of achievements
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The Iran war is now in an artificial stasis, in which practically all of the vast international coalition of people who are repelled and horrified by U.S. President Donald Trump, in the United States and elsewhere, have reflexively bought into the Iranian claim that since that ghastly regime has ostensibly survived, Iran is winning the war.
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This is a false conception. This has been the most one-sided war between serious combatants in modern history. Iran has been deprived of much of its military capacity, including related defence production, and is now being tightly blockaded by sea. American casualties have been minimal.
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Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and electrical grid, but is understandably reluctant to take such a step without having been evidently provoked by escalated violence from Iran. He has been inconvenienced by such interventions as those of Pope Leo XIV, who has unjustly criticized the United States while whitewashing the evil and blood-stained regime in Iran. (The Holy See has also been relatively silent about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and elsewhere, where the Trump administration has been of considerable assistance.)
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