We Can Only Hope He Doesn't Actually Believe A Word He's Saying.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-904293

Instead that he and the rest of the Trump adminstration are learning what all over their predecessors of the last 40 years have known, without having to have proved to them. 

Iran is a only a boogeyman you use to rally your base. The US isn't a big enough bully to try using bullyboy tactics against them. Even if would actually want to take definitive action on an existential issue.

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