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The Abrams interview is on CNN's site. In the last 45 seconds or so, Abrams trots out his preferred action vs negotiations: further weakening Iran by using naval and air forces to attack their oil exports.

Sure, but Elliot Abrams is one of those old-school longtime members of the hawkish faction of the Foreign Policy Blob. The sort of guys that Trump was talked into taking on board in his first term, but the sort that were intentionally kept out of the second term Administration because they don't match up with his foreign policy views. Abrams never met an intervention he didn't like, and his pedigree in that goes all the way back to Iran-Contra.

He certainly has his own views on what we should do on foreign policy, but I wouldn't look to him for any insight into (or correlation with) what Trump thinks or wants to do on Iran.

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