Economic D-Day for Iran
21 August 2026
Tzvi Kahn, Research Fellow and Senior Editor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, discusses President Trump’s “Economic D-Day” threat against Iran, what is needed of U.S. allies for the plan to work, and why it is the Iranian people who must overthrow the regime for there ultimately to be peace.
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