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The government’s campaign against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has moved fast. The government army has swept through Arab-majority Deir al-Zur and Raqqa provinces. Above: a makeshift dirt bridge crossing the Euphrates River between Damascus government-controlled areas and territory then under the control of the SDF.

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President Donald Trump.

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As Iran Slaughters Protesters, Trump Sends Mixed Signals

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While a seventy-year-old Iranian woman with a bleeding mouth shouts that she has been “dead for 47 years," in the salons of New York, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, Rome and London, thousands of perfectly alive people behave as if they were already half-dead—victims of the most vile death of all: preventive death.

Middle East Forum Online

The Courage of Iranians and the Cowardice of Westerners

Courage Emerges in Iran Where Fear No Longer Has Any Power

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