"From Venezuela and Iran, Trump has attacked countries in the past when diplomacy appeared to be working. After threatening to attack Iran for days in support of protesters challenging the government in Tehran, United States President Donald Trump appeared to dial back the rhetoric on Wednesday evening. The killings in Iran, Trump said, had stopped, adding that Tehran had told his administration that arrested protesters would not be executed."
"Since August, the US had positioned its largest military deployment in the Caribbean Sea in decades. The US military bombed more than 30 boats that it claimed without providing evidence were carrying drugs to the United States, killing more than 100 people in these strikes. For months, Trump and his team accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of leading mass-scale narcotics smuggling operations, again without evidence."
"Amid the boat bombings, Trump even said that the US might strike Venezuelan land next. But in late November, Trump revealed to reporters that he had spoken to the Venezuelan leader. A few days later, the call was confirmed by Maduro himself, who described it as cordial. The US then hit what Trump described as a docking facility for alleged drug boats in Venezuela."
Trump threatened strikes on Iran amid protests but then reduced rhetoric after being told killings had stopped and arrested protesters would not be executed. He did not fully rule out an attack, leaving the possibility of U.S. military action. Since August, the United States deployed its largest Caribbean force in decades and bombed more than 30 boats it said, without evidence, were carrying drugs, resulting in over 100 deaths. The administration repeatedly accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of large-scale narcotics smuggling without evidence, threatened strikes, struck a docking facility, and then targeted and abducted Maduro and his wife on narcotics charges.
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