The Dire Strait: Why the US Went from Nuclear Negotiations to War on Iran in Five Days

How secret intelligence sold Trump on a spectacular strike that set the global economy on fire.

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• The US launched its biggest military operation since Iraq two days after the most productive round of nuclear negotiations in twenty years.

• The cause wasn’t a lobbying campaign, a diplomatic failure, or an intelligence assessment.

• It was an opportunity too theatrical for this president to resist: the entire Iranian leadership, one location, one m…