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How Iran’s Hard-liners Blew Up the Peace Deal with Trump

Opponents derailed the agreement with a clandestine effort to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz, regime insiders say. Iran’s president was furious when he found out.

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President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, next to the honor guard, at the funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran in July.
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