Trump trades Iran’s annihilation for economic pressure: ‘We are low-keying it’

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President Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he is moving away from threatening military force in favor of applying economic pressure on Iran to end the war.

“We are low-keying it,” he told Axios on a brief phone call. “We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.”

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