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U.S.-Iran Tensions: Implications for Homeland Security, hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security

U.S. Government Publishing Office

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  1. documented
    Superseded · open corrected record

    Trump publicly threatened 52 Iranian targets, including some he described as important to Iranian culture, after Iran warned of retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani.

    Hearing record reproducing the January 4 threat and discussing cultural-property law

    Trump threatened Iranian cultural sites; his defense secretary publicly drew the legal line · superseded evidence record

  2. documented

    Trump publicly threatened 52 Iranian targets, including some he described as important to Iranian culture, after Iran warned of retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani.

    Hearing record reproducing the January 4 threat and discussing cultural-property law

    Trump threatened Iranian cultural sites; his defense secretary publicly drew the legal line · Trump issued the threat January 4, 2020; Esper stated the law-of-armed-conflict position January 6

  3. documented

    The reviewed set contains two North Korea statements, dated August 8 and September 19, 2017, and two Iran statements, dated January 4 and April 22, 2020. Deduplicating their named state targets gives two states: North Korea and Iran.

    January 4, 2020 statement reproduced in the congressional record

    Iran and North Korea are named in four reviewed force threats from 2017 to 2020 · Retrospective count through the last statement in the reviewed set