Trump’s Team of Rivals Tackles Iran

Something like it worked for Lincoln, but Trump could have a hard time repeating the strategy.

Office of the Iranian supreme leader via AP
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Tehran, February 7, 2025. Office of the Iranian supreme leader via AP

Will the feud on tariffs between President Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, a.k.a. a “moron,” and Elon Musk, the car “assembler,” be replicated as America launches diplomatic talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran? Internal disagreements between Iran hawks and MAGA appeasers appear to be as intense on how to block the mullahs’ bomb as they are on trade barriers. The president says Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon.” 

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