Rightly seeking Iran off-ramp, Trump must first eliminate Mojtaba Khamenei

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President Donald Trump unwisely launched this war on Iran and is now seeking a diplomatic off-ramp. As he put it on Monday, “I think you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term excursion. … We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough.” Trump added that he favors an “internal” leader taking power in the vein of Delcy Rodriguez replacing Nicolas Maduro as Venezuelan president.

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