The U.S. and Iran’s new relationship status: enemies, with benefits
by Karl Vick
Feb 11, 2017
3 minutes
FOR NEARLY FOUR DECADES, IRAN has been a reliable villain in U.S. foreign policy, black hat firmly in place even as President Obama made engaging the mullahs over their nuclear program the centerpiece of his diplomatic legacy. So when Tehran test-fired a ballistic missile on Jan. 29 in defiance of a U.N. resolution, the newly minted Trump Administration knew what to do. National Security chief Michael Flynn informed Iran it was “on notice.”
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