Will Trump put boots on the ground in Iran? – The Latest

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  This is The Guardian.

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  This is becoming a war where it's a clash of American military power against Iranian economic power.

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  We're doing extremely well in that negotiation, but you never know with Iran because.

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  We negotiate with him and then we always have to blow him up.

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  You cannot predict what this man does.

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  We've learned that.

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  So it 's equally possible that he will step up militarily,

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  try and take Kark Island, or is using that purely as leverage to get a kind of climb down.

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  There 's yet more distorted reality from President Trump, who is threatening to obliterate Iran's infrastructure,

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  whilst also claiming he 's in talks with a new reasonable regime about ending the war.

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  From the Guardians today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

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  I'm joined by Jonathan Friedland, Guardian columnist and host of our sister podcast, Politics Weekly America.

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  It's lovely to have you back with us, Jonny.

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  Thanks for dialing in.

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  So it's obviously been a very busy weekend after a very busy few weeks.

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  There's a lot to get through in terms of updates on what's played out over the weekend.

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  But let's start with these thousands of US military personnel who've arrived in the Middle East.

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  They will be deployed to do there.

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  But also this reported suggestion that there are US preparations for a ground invasion.

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  That is reported, we should say, not confirmed at this time.

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