After months of rhetoric, the US re-imposes sanctions on Iran. Plus, historical revisionism in Israel's archives.
'Sanctions are coming': Trump, Iran and the messaging battle
President Donald Trump dropped the word on Twitter with a Game of Thrones-inspired tagline: 'Sanctions Are Coming, November 5th'.
The retaliatory tweet from Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei was no less confrontational, declaring that Trump's 'every decision is opposed by the world’.
Back in 2015, when former President Barack Obama signed the multilateral deal designed to monitor and limit Iran's nuclear programme, few would have predicted that his successor would not only pull out of the agreement but elect to re-impose sanctions.
Tehran has put on a brave face, trying to convince Iranians it can weather the storm and making its own case, moral and political, to a global audience. We examine the messaging battle being waged by both countries.
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