On June 16, President Donald Trump called Iran’s leaders “very rational people” who were “nice to deal with.” He even assured they were “not radicalized.”
On Wednesday, Trump offered a nearly polar-opposite take. He called Iran’s leaders “cuckoo,” “evil” and “sick,” “dirty players” and “scum.”
“They violate the agreement every day,” Trump said at a NATO summit in Turkey. “They lie. They cheat.”
The president offered his sharply revised review of Iran’s leaders as the tenuous ceasefire between the US and Tehran looks to be more endangered than ever after Iran targeted three ships
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