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Pompeo threatens to light the fuse in Persian Gulf — M. K. Bhadrakumar

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Historically, this is a situation analogous to the infamous 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident in the Vietnam war, which was a fake event that the US used to commit the first ground combat units in Indo-China and initiate a massive bombing campaign.... Wag the dog's tail?India PunchlinePompeo threatens to light the fuse in Persian Gulf M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service. alsoSputnik InternationalIran’s Revolutionary Guard Chief Vows to 'Hit' Those Responsible For Soleimani’s Deathalso On September 15, 1970, during a twenty-minute meeting in the Oval Office between 3:25 pm and 3:45 pm, President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to foment a military coup in Chile. According to handwritten notes taken by CIA Director Richard Helms, Nixon issued explicit

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Historically, this is a situation analogous to the infamous 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident in the Vietnam war, which was a fake event that the US used to commit the first ground combat units in Indo-China and initiate a massive bombing campaign....
Wag the dog's tail?

India Punchline
Pompeo threatens to light the fuse in Persian Gulf
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service.

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Sputnik International
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Chief Vows to 'Hit' Those Responsible For Soleimani’s Death

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On September 15, 1970, during a twenty-minute meeting in the Oval Office between 3:25 pm and 3:45 pm, President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to foment a military coup in Chile. According to handwritten notes taken by CIA Director Richard Helms, Nixon issued explicit instructions to prevent the newly elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, from being inaugurated in November—or to create conditions to overthrow him if he did assume the presidency.
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