Trump Is ‘Trolling’ Iran To Avoid Further Escalation | David Charter

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“Trump has fired back by basically trolling them, and I don't think he wants to escalate further.” Donald Trump appears reluctant to escalate the conflict with Iran further after Imran Khan called his bluff, with the US president instead trying to change the narrative and avoid a return to full-scale war, says The Times’s assistant US editor David Charter. David Charter was speaking to Kait Borsay with The Evening Edition. Listen live on Times Radio every Monday-Thursday, 7-10pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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