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‘The truth right now is buried in the rubble’: Iran retaliates over US strikes and plots next moves

By WTOP Staff
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Israel carried out more military strikes on Iran Monday, two days after President Donald Trump ordered strikes on Iran, attacking the country’s nuclear facilities.

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The United States’ move follows Israel’s attacks on the country over the past few weeks.

Iran also fired missiles toward Israeli cities, as it lashed out at the U.S. for crossing what it called a “very big red line” in those weekend attacks.

WTOP National Security Correspondent JJ Green briefed WTOP’s John Aaron and John Domen with the latest on the aftermath of the strikes on the nuclear facilities, and provided analysis on what Iran’s response to the U.S. might be.

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Analysis: The world Washington built is fraying. What comes next?

By J.J. Green
The United States is confronting a global security environment that increasingly resembles the outcome its Cold War adversaries once hoped to produce: a divided West, weakened alliances, economic exhaustion, multiple simultaneous wars and declining confidence in American leadership. That does not mean today’s crises were orchestrated according to some surviving Soviet master plan. The Soviet Union is gone, and the threats facing Washington now come from several different states with different interests. But the strategic effect is strikingly familiar. Early NATO assessments of Soviet intentions warned that Moscow sought to weaken the democratic powers, deny the West a secure European base and ultimately exhaust North America economically. Now, NATO says Russia is again trying to reconfigure the Euro-Atlantic security order through military force, sabotage, cyberattacks, coercion and disinformation. The difference is that much of the pressure now confronting the West is occurring simultaneously — and some of the damage to alliance cohesion is self-inflicted.
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