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Trump’s hard-line approach to Iran is a ‘strategic mistake,’ former US energy secretary says

June 6, 2019

The increasingly hard-line approach toward Iran taken by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is a “strategic mistake,” a former U.S. Energy Secretary said Thursday.

At the Ecosperity Conference in Singapore, Ernest J. Moniz — who is currently the CEO of non-profit firms Energy Futures Initiative and Nuclear Threat Initiative — said Washington’s hardening approach risks provoking Iran not to comply with the 2015 nuclear agreement.

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