By dragging the US into Iran, Trump risks giving Tehran the final showdown it wants

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are experts at insurgency and may be relishing the prospect of conflict, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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n the feverish rhetoric of this new age of chaos, Donald Trump has upped the temperature dangerously close to delirium with a threat to kill the supreme leader of Iran – not yet, but maybe – and Trump knows where he’s hiding.

By dragging the US into Iran, Trump risks giving Tehran the final showdown it wants

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