Iran compares Trump to Saddam Hussein as new sanctions go into effect

Hassan Rouhani.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday slammed the Trump administration's decision to re-impose sanctions on his country previously removed by the nuclear deal from which President Trump has withdrawn the United States.

"We are in the war situation," Rouhani said of the sanctions, which took effect Monday. "We are in the economic war situation. We are confronting a bullying enemy. We have to stand to win."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.