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What Trump's flip-flopping on strikes means for the war with Iran

NPR | By Michelle Aslam,

Ailsa Chang

Published August 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM CDT

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on President Trump's pattern with threatening strikes on Iran.

Michelle Aslam

Ailsa Chang

Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist and a host of NPR’s newsmagazine All Things Considered, as well as NPR’s daily news podcast Consider This.

See stories by Ailsa Chang

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