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Former CIA Official Attacks Trump’s Hard Line On Iran. Former Iranian Hostage Blasts Him.

Hank Berrien
Former CIA Official Attacks Trump’s Hard Line On Iran. Former Iranian Hostage Blasts Him.
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On Thursday, a former CIA official who has been harshly critical of President Trump’s unyielding stance toward the despotic Iranian regime wrote an article attacking President Trump’s hard line vis-a-vis Iran, saying, “the advent of the Biden administration will make possible a more effective U.S. approach toward Iran,” and trumpeting the advantages of returning to the Iran nuclear deal.

In response, a Princeton PhD candidate who was taken hostage in Iran fired back on Twitter, writing, “Ideas as such are wrong and dangerous: 1. Totally one-sided, portraying the US the perpetrator, IRI the victim, 2. Trying to fit IRI into cookie cutter theories, as if IRI is a normal state, 3. Uttered from former senior officials with an air of authority.”

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