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First, he must persuade Tehran to treat Iraq as an independent nation-state, not a glacis for the Islamic Republic in its campaign to "export revolution." Revival of the 1977 trade accord could help end the current chaos and enable Tehran and Baghdad to secure income from tariffs and taxation. Setting mutually accepted rules on charities could also help both curb money laundering and tax evasion through fake religious charities linked to crime syndicates and security services. The big enchilada...

A A With Donald Trump out of the White House, wannabe do-gooders have thrown their hats, or turbans, into the ring as mediators between Tehran and Washington. First, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was ready to seize the opportunity of Joe Biden’s victory to build a bridge with Iran. Then it was the turn of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to don the mantle of honest broker. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has also made musings about mediation. Last week, Qata...

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>> i understand. but did goldstein understand at the time -- obviously, he knows the rules of engagement. you know, why did he pull the trigger, if he knew what he was doing was illegal? >> so you imply that he knew what he was doing was illegal or what he did was illegal. >> im asking you, was he aware. >> right. he was aware of the rules of engagement. he exercised his discretion as a ground commander in afghanistan. controlling essentially the bottom third of marja during combat operations, h...

Leader who was working and helping these american forces, did major goldstein at the time know he was not authorized to kill him. that this was against the rules of engagement? >> super important to understand this. the bomb maker was captured with bomb-making material. he was brought back to the combat outpost. he was identified by a local tribal leader as being a taliban member and an individual who was conducting operations in marja. there are no detention facilities in marja during the war. ...

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Train efforts in marja. a gunship was sent to fly cover for the u.s. troops while they were trapped in that compound. martha: how long were they trapped there? >> a number of hours. by the afternoon the pentagon press secretary could not confirm the americans had been evacuated. >> there is fighting on the ground as we speak. everything is being done to secure the safety of those forces and the afghan forces they were coupled. >> they took shelter in an area surrounded by a sea of taliban compou...

We have breaking news out of southern afghanistan involving u.s. troops. lets get right to cnns chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto. what are you learning? >> the deadly fire fight involving u.s. special operations forces, a joint operation with afghan commandos, this was in marja, during that fire fight i was told one u.s. soldier was killed in that action. other casualties as well. after the fire fight a u.s. medevac helicopter landed at the site. while it was on the ground, it ...

Several weeks ago when the capital lashkar gar was in danger of falling. they also stepped up some air strikes, u.s. air strikes. the u.s., of course, theyre automobile to justify this by saying its part of the overall rules of engagement, false in the rules of engagement because its afghans who are threatened and the u.s. and nato coalition have both the responsibility and the right to help defend them. but when you talk to u.s. defense officials and military officials there in afghanistan, had...

the grass is the right color for this time of year. you know, kind of a brownish greenish sort of thing. it just feels right. >> the trees are the right height. congratulations, michigan. you have just suffered the most inexplicable parent compliment any major party presidential nominee has ever paid to any individual state. i come back here, the trees are the right height. and maybe it is just michigan. maybe michigan brings this out in presidential candidates. michigan is where micha...