No, Trump didn’t start a war with Iran

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A new conservative foreign policy group, the Democratic Alliance Initiative, has reminded us how badly wrong many liberals were when it came to their Armageddon-esque warnings against President Trump’s Iran policy.

Reintroducing U.S. sanctions on Iran, more actively confronting Tehran’s external aggression (including in Iraq), and eliminating its terrorist ringleader, Qassem Soleimani, Trump has adopted a markedly different approach to that of President Barack Obama. But in response to each of these actions, many on the political Left have asserted that Trump’s policy would bring nothing but bloodshed and chaos. As a new document by the group points out, these predictions weren’t exactly on the money.

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