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Jason Ditz
\nAntiwar.com<\/p>\n
While President Trump\u2019s position on Iran tends to change with little notice, he backed away from his insistence that he doesn\u2019t want war with Iran on Monday, saying now of the war \u201cir could go either way, and I\u2019m OK either way it goes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump added that it\u2019s \u201cgetting harder for me to want to make a deal with Iran\u201d in the first place, because he views them as \u201cbehaving very badly,\u201d and are \u201cthe number one state of terror in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump followed this up by announcing new sanctions against China, saying they were intended to punish them for \u201caccepting crude oil.\u201d This is likely to be a bigger problem for US-China ties than Iran, as Iran is already heavily sanctioned.<\/p>\n If Trump\u2019s new bellicose stance sticks, this could be a major shift in US hostility toward Iran. President Trump has been one of the few top officials insisting he didn\u2019t want a war as administration hawks continued to talk of a conflict as all but inevitable. If Trump is indeed \u201cOK either way\u201d on the war, it\u2019s not going to be any secret that his top aides will be pushing him to choose war over peace.<\/p>\n