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Escalatory spiral. A big part of this is that the United States decided to push , includingm pressure getting United States out of the joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran deal. That meant that we were putting pressure on the iranian government, and the iranian government decided to respond in various ways. Through proxies and other things. We have seen a spiral. If you think back over the last couple of years, you have had the tanker tax in the gulf, the attack on the saudi oil faciliti...

Reporter iran has bought retaliation after a airstrike killed suleimani. The general has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers. The state department accused suleimani of a bruising violent protest in baghdad. President trump ordered the strikes, secretary of state mike pompeo defended the president s decision. The risk of doing nothing was enormous. Also, highly risky, doing nothing in this region shows weakness. It emboldens iran. Reporter the u. S. Embassy issued a travel...

Welcome to the program iran has vowed to retaliate after the u. S. Assassinated its top military commander leaving the middle east on a knife edge that some sort of money who was regarded as the 2nd most powerful figure in iran died in an airstrike near Baghdad Airport a top Iraqi Paramilitary commander are the mohan these was also killed iraqs Prime Minister says the act will light the fuse over the struct of war in iraq and angry crowds protested after friday prayers condemning the assassinati...

Last night at my direction, the United States military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader responsible for gravely wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at least of americans. Qassem suleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. Lou the commanderinchief obviously taking decisive and bold action to end the thuggish reign of irans Qassem Suleimani as leader of the iranian quds force. He had a lot o...

President trump good afternoon. My most solemn duty as the defense of our nation and its citizens last night at my direction, the United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist sowhere in the world, quasem leimani. Soleimany was plotting sinister attacks on diplomats and American Military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him. Leadership, americas policy is unambiguous to terrorists who harm or intend to harm any...

Story. The very latest in that story coming up. Good morning to you. It is a sunday, january 5th. We have all those stories and a whole lot more. First we start with that sunday forecast. So we start with a live look from our camera as you see the temperature at the bottom of your screen right there. 50 degrees is what were waking up at. Well top out in the 60s. But we do have a nice sunday on tap. You can always get the latest forecast by downloading the weather app and by going to our website ...

National Defense Authorization measure and north korea in the Washington Post afghanistan investigation. Good morning happy holidays. The chairman and i wanted to take this opportunity to meet with you all once more prior to the end of the year. I want to start by thanking congress for passing the national Defense Authorization act paid we appreciate the strong demonstration of support from the house and from the senate. This legislation is a big step forward. This will enable the department to ...

Breakfast at st. Anthem chej in manchester, new hampshire, live over on cspan 2. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the political situation in afghanistan, and the role that taliban and other power brokers like the u. S. , china, russia and pakistan may play in future peace arrangements. From the Brookings Institution earlier this week, this is just over an hour and a half. Welcome. Im mike owe han lon briefly playing the role of ...

Last night at my direction, the United States military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader responsible for gravely wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at least of americans. Qassem suleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. Lou the commanderinchief obviously taking decisive and bold action to end the thuggish reign of irans Qassem Suleimani as leader of the iranian quds force. He had a lot o...

The Brookings Institute posted this discussion. Hosted this discussion. Hi, everyone and welcome to brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to our moderator. Hi, everyone and welcome to brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to tom our moderator. Tom is a distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Really thrilled he would join us. He spent a lot of time in the field in afghanistan and elsewhere embedded with u. S. C...