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The shadow of the Iran war looms over Trump's 9/11 commemoration at the Pentagon

The President of the United States defends the conflict and insists that Tehran “will never have a nuclear weapon”

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The shadow of the Iran war looms over Trump's 9/11 commemoration at the Pentagon

US President Donald Trump broke with tradition by not attending the 9/11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero in New York on the 25th anniversary of the attacks. He instead attended the ceremony at the Pentagon, where he gave a speech defending the war in Iran that he ordered over six months ago. Trump linked the war to the fight against terrorism declared by his predecessor George W. Bush a quarter century ago.

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