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Trump Ratchets Up Verbal Attacks on Iran

Steve Herman

   VOA's Capitol Hill correspondent Michael Bowman and VOA Persian's
   Afshar Sigarchi contributed to this report.

   Top U.S. and Iranian officials are continuing to fire verbal warning
   shots at each other while insisting they want to avoid war.

   Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called the
   United States the "world's most vicious regime" and a "source of wars,
   conflict and plunder."

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