'Heightens alarm in Tehran': What Trump's attack on Venezuela means for Iran and MAGA isolationists
Trump's recent threats to Iran alongside Netanyahu in Mar-a-lago have taken on a new dimension with the seizure of Maduro – a signal to both Tehran and Trump's anti-interventionist base of how far his administration is willing to go with adversarial regimes
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Trump's recent threats to Iran alongside Netanyahu in Mar-a-lago have taken on a new dimension with the seizure of Maduro – a signal to both Tehran and Trump's anti-interventionist base of how far his administration is willing to go with adversarial regimes
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Washington
January 04, 2026
WASHINGTON – One of the few things clear in the 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump upended the global political status quo with his shock detention of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is that the Iranian regime is on notice.
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