Trump warns of 'bad things' if Iran doesn't make a deal, as US carrier nears Mideast
Source: AP
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran held annual military drills with Russia on Thursday as a second American aircraft carrier drew closer to the Middle East, with both the United States and Iran signaling they are prepared for war if talks on Tehran’s nuclear program fizzle out.
President Donald Trump has said he hopes to reach a deal with Iran, but the talks have been deadlocked for years, and Iran has refused to discuss wider U.S. and Israeli demands that it scale back its missile program and sever ties to armed groups. Indirect talks held in recent weeks made little visible progress, and one or both sides could be buying time for final war preparations.
Iran’s theocracy is more vulnerable than ever, following 12 days of Israeli and U.S. strikes on its nuclear sites and military last year, as well as mass protests in January that were violently suppressed. But it is still capable of striking Israel and U.S. bases in the region, and has warned that any attack would trigger a regional war.
Iran earlier this week launched a drill that involved live-fire in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow opening of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil passes.
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to be drug through the streets of Iranian cities, and for Iran's nuclear weapons programs to be demolished, because I definitely would 
I'm all for the USA helping the Iranian people to throw off the shackles of the murderous oppressors, but I don't want their cities bombed by the United States, I don't want US soldiers to die and military gear to need to be re-bought with our tax dollars to do so.
We need our people alive, we need affordable healthcare, and lower prices (to name a tiny few). We do not need more of our money spent on warplanes, ships, and bombs 
