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Trump's 'Love Tap' Doctrine: How Escalation Gets Reframed as Restraint

A metaphor carried into English-language feeds via Iranian state-adjacent wire copy has set the political terms of the next round of escalation, and the next.

Screenshot of an X post by verified user Elijah J. Magnier (@ejmalrai) containing a Persian translation and a political statement about Israel, Iran, and the GCC.
Screenshot of an X post by verified user Elijah J. Magnier (@ejmalrai) containing a Persian translation and a political statement about Israel, Iran, and the GCC. @alalamfa · Telegram
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