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Iran: Into the Quagmire

Exiting may be more difficult than Trump thought

Mar 13, 2026
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By: William Thatcher Dowell
Ali Khamenei’s son and successor, Mojtaba

What are the chances that Donald Trump will simply declare victory and forget about the war he created in Iran? No one doubts that Trump and “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth have put on a remarkable display of shock-and-awe destruction in Iran, but what has it really accomplished? Americ…

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