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kkmarie

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4. Diplomacy a chance? HA

Reply to Ponietz (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2025, 05:41 AM

Jun 20

Threatening to kill the Supreme Leader, isn't negotiations it's a full on fuckin threat! Just how does this regime think the Iranians are going to respond? Of course it may just be that Iran has the better ability to work this out through diplomacy. The US certainly doesn't have it.

We know exactly where the so-called 'Supreme Leader' is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there — We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now," Trump said in a post — one in a series of statements he made before meeting with his national security team in the White House Situation Room about the conflict.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/17/nx-s1-5436819/trump-iran-israel

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