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DonViejo

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Sun Jun 23, 2019, 08:28 AM Jun 2019

The Latest: Bolton says US 'prudence' on Iran isn't weakness [View all]

Source: Associated Press



2 hours ago


TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on tensions between the U.S. and Iran and in the Persian Gulf (all times local):

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton says Iran should not “mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness.”

Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Sunday, Bolton says no one has granted Iran a “hunting license in the Middle East.”

The comments come days after President Donald Trump announced he called off military strikes on Iran after learning approximately 150 Iranians would be killed, saying it would’ve been out of proportion to the shooting down of an unmanned American surveillance drone by Iran.

Read more: https://www.apnews.com/70b05b546fe444f384fcf3bca2b83492

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