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Trump Touts Both Talks and Threats in War With Iran

The president’s mixed messages have financial markets gyrating.
A person surveys damage at the site of a building hit by a strike on a commercial district in Tehran.

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This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Nancy Cook is off this week. Today, senior domestic policy reporter Ted Mann looks at the president’s messaging on the war with Iran. Sign up here . Email our editors here .

In his approach to the war with Iran, President Donald Trump is trying to have it both ways, which is confounding voters and markets.