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Trump Is Just Trying to Save Face Still, one moment stands out as a potential key for understanding what is playing out among the three countries. On Monday, after U.S. B-2 bombers dropped bunker-busting munitions on Iran’s nuclear enrichment infrastructure over the weekend, President Donald Trump declared that the United States had achieved the “[o]bliteration” of the sites and taunted Iran for its “very weak” reprisal attack against a U.S. air base in Qatar. Even for news hounds, keeping track of the fast-moving U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict in the last two weeks has been a big challenge, never mind making sense of it. Analysts have widely understood Iran’s retaliatory attack as a way to show its domestic audience that despite being pummeled for days by Israel, and then by a 30,000-pound weapon unique to the U.S. arsenal, the Islamic Republic was still able to fight back. But Iran clearly had another audience in mind as well, and the message for it couldn’t be more different. As U.S. officials acknowledged, Iran deliberately signaled its attack in advance. By giving early warning and thus preventing U.S. casualties, Tehran was effectively saying that it was eager to end this phase of an immensely costly conflict. Trump’s comments about Iran’s counterattack reveal Washington’s own need to save face in the wake of the first stage of what promises
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