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Mnuchin Reveals Trump Hopes His Iran Gamble Can Score Him a New Deal

Is Trump really willing to alienate countless European and world powers that will continue trading with Iran, especially since the latest sanctions cover every major aspect of Iran’s economy?

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President Donald Trump delivers a statement on the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

One of the growing concerns resulting from Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran deal, is that oil - and gasoline - prices will jump so much, now that anywhere between 200kb/d and 700kb/d in Iran exports is taken out of the market, they will offset most benefits to U.S. consumers from the Trump tax cuts. We covered this topic three

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Israel Launches Air Strike On Syrian Army Position Near Damascus

Just minutes after Israel instructed local authorities in the occupied Golan Heights to “unlock and ready bomb shelters,” an Israeli air strike on Syrian army positions was reported after missiles were reportedly fired from Israel.

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Thick smoke and flames erupt from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border.

Just minutes after Israel instructed local authorities in the occupied Golan Heights to "unlock and ready bomb shelters", after identifying apparent "irregular activity of Iranian forces in #Syria”, and putting Israeli troops on high alert, an Israeli air strike on Syrian army positions was reported after missiles were reportedly fired from Israel

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US State Department Cuts Off Funding For Syria’s White Helmets

The United States has provided at least $32 million to the White Helmets through a USAID scheme orchestrated by the Obama State Department.

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Members of the Syrian Civil Defense also known as the White Helmets pose for a photo.

The State Department has frozen funding to the controversial Syrian aid group known as the White Helmets, a non-governmental organization (NGO) which provided the sole evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly used chemical weapons on his own people in an April 7 attack on the city of Douma, according to CBS News. Having not

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Israeli Officials Seeking US Support for Coming Attack on Iran

Israeli officials appear to be preparing for open warfare with Iran and are seeking U.S. help and support.

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Not that there was much doubt who was behind it, but two days after "enemy" warplanes attacked a Syrian military base near Hama on Sunday, killing at least 11 Iranians and dozens of others, and nobody had yet "claimed responsibility" the attack, U.S. officials told NBC that it was indeed Israeli F-15 fighter jets that struck the base, NBC News

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Iran Resoundingly Rejects Netanyahu’s Nuclear Weapons Accusation

Netanyahu provided the media with cover to cheer the next regional conflict: that between the US, its allies, Saudi Arabia and of course Israel on one side and Iran, Syria, Russia, and potentially China on the other.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents material he claims comes from on Iranian nuclear weapons development during a press conference in in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 30, 2018. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

In a predictably furious response to a presentation delivered Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran's Foreign Ministry denounced allegations that the Islamic Republic had been carrying on its nuclear program in secret, calling Netanyahu "an infamous liar" and accusing him of being the head of a "child-killing Zionist regime,"

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Pat Buchanan: Netanyahu Has “Been Crying Wolf For Decades” About Iran

“What are we going to do, rely on a press conference from Bibi Netanyahu to go to war?”

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Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's powerpoint presentation Monday evening -allegedly demonstrating captured evidence, documents, and computer disks, showing a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program much more advanced and ambitious than the Iranian government publicly admits existed - Pat Buchanan joined Sean Hannity on his show

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OPCW Investigators Reportedly Found “No Evidence” Of Chemical Weapons At Syrian Facilities Targeted By US

According to new reports, OPCW investigators have spoken with Russian military officials after visiting the site of the Barzeh research center in Damascus.

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Russian military police officers check a weapons factory left Jaysh al-Islam, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, April 16, 2018. Faisal Mekdad, Syria's deputy foreign minister, said on Monday that his country is "fully ready" to cooperate with the fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that's in Syria to investigate the alleged chemical attack that triggered U.S.-led airstrikes. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

While it will likely take the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons weeks or even months to issue their final report on the alleged gas attack in Douma (an attack for which journalists and other independent parties have failed to find any evidence), the organization's investigators have apparently spoken with Russian military

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