Trump envoy won't ruling out using Afghan war law to justify Iranian strikes
The State Department’s top official on Iran declined Wednesday to rule out the possibility that the Trump administration might justify a military confrontation with Tehran using the 2001 law that authorized the Afghanistan war.
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