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Yes, Pres. Trump will seemingly say two different things, or change after stating something.\u00a0 But he\u2019s dealing with a fluid situation, and with persons who are doing the same thing.\u00a0 Like three dimensional chess.
\n\u201cBessent: The Iran Regime Is In Chaos, It’s Hitler\u2019s Bunker–Hitler Is Dead, Himmler Is Dead, Goering Is Dead,\u201d<\/a> RCP, 3-22-26.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran threatens to \u2018completely\u2019 close Strait of Hormuz and hit power plants after Trump ultimatum,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 3-22-26.\u00a0 See also\u00a0\u201cIran war updates: Iran warns of hits on energy sites after Trump threat,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 3-22-26.<\/p>\n

It does seem to be over for Pahlavi.\u00a0 As several of us have thought, he should have clearly held himself as the option only until elections could be held.\u00a0 \u201cThe Distant Promise of Iran\u2019s Would-Be King,\u201d<\/a> New Yorker, 3-22-26.\u00a0\u00a0This is how the article concludes.\u00a0 \u201cPahlavi remains the most prominent figure among the various dissidents jockeying for a leadership role in a post-Islamic Republic Iran. But, despite his seemingly good intentions, the pounding of Iran\u2019s cities, the bombing of its palaces and cultural heritage sites, the food and gas shortages, the toxic smoke-filled skies, the dead schoolchildren, and the buzz of low-flying drones overhead all risk transforming his image from the leader of a unified future to the agent of his country\u2019s ruin. In the ancient kingship tradition, endangering the empire would cause a king to lose his farr. No monarch in two and a half millennia of Persian history has invited a foreign power to attack the land of Iran, and nowhere in the long literary tradition of royal counsel\u2014known as andarznameh, or \u201cmirror for princes\u201d\u2014has an exception been made for the cause of ending domestic tyranny. This is the current predicament of Pahlavi, whose royal charisma has never been more on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, Pres. Trump will seemingly say two different things, or change after stating something.\u00a0 But he\u2019s dealing with a fluid situation, and with persons who are doing the same thing.\u00a0 Like three dimensional chess. \u201cBessent: The Iran Regime Is In Chaos, It’s Hitler\u2019s Bunker–Hitler Is Dead, Himmler Is Dead, Goering Is Dead,\u201d RCP, 3-22-26. \u201cIran … <\/p>\n

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