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Trump said his decision to launch Operation Epic Fury was made on February 28.
Part of the monitored dynamic Israel–Iran Confrontation · VUCA INDEX 75/100
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 3JUL 15
jpost.com — Fmr. Iranian FM calls on Tehran to kidnap thousands of US soldiers from military
"Trump said that his decision to launch Operation Epic Fury on February 28 was because Iran's effort to obtain a nuclear weapon "just never stops.""
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from jpost.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 18.
Extracted JUL 15; approved JUL 18 at 0.58.
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