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Items by Muhammad Shahbaz Rajper
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Trump’s Gulf brinkmanship: Is the United States replaying the Cuban Missile Crisis with Iran?
When US President Donald Trump announced that a “massive fleet”, an “armada” centered on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and accompanying warships, was heading toward the Persian Gulf, the language evoked memories not of 21st-century diplomacy but of a 20th-century crisis. It was the kind of rhetoric once reserved…