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An obscure blogger's hit-job on an American writer and his associates amounts to small beans. In the bigger picture, however, it exposes a cancer spreading through present American discourse on Russia and the wider world...Once again it was Molly McKew. "Putin is waging an information assault on Americans - yet many supposedly anti-Putin experts want you to believe there's nothing you can do to stop it," she tweeted. "Why? Stellar wknd (sic) longread by @JamesFourM (Jay McKenzie) on understanding how the Kremlin takes down its critics."
"Mr Trump! Iran is not North Korea to accept your offer for a meeting," said IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari as quoted by the state Fars News agency. "Even US presidents after you will not see that day."Jafari's statement comes just one day after Trump expressed a willingness to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani "anytime they want," with no preconditions. Meeting his Iranian adversaries, Trump said, would be "good for the country, good for them, good for us and good for the world."
"If the Iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people, reduce their malign behavior, can agree that it's worthwhile to enter into a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation, then the president said he's prepared to sit down and have the conversation with them," Pompeo told CNBC.
Comment: As the complete sh*tshow that it is.