Iran Finds Trump’s Pain Threshold

When speaking extemporaneously about the course the war with Iran is taking, Donald Trump is as stalwart and resolute as he has been since the campaign began. On social media, however, the president sounds as excitable as ever.

In a missive posted to Truth Social on Thursday, the president accused his Israeli allies of having “violently lashed out” in executing air strikes on Iran’s South Pars natural gas field. The statement came as Iran targeted oil and gas facilities across the Gulf region.

Trump insists he “knew nothing about this particular attack,” although U.S. and Israeli officials have told reporters that Jerusalem’s ...


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