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Choe Son Hui, vice minister of foreign affairs, replied by threatening a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown” if Washington stuck to “unlawful and outrageous” belligerence.
Unless the Iranian regime is terminally humbled in the course of its showdown with the West over its nuclear program, the more plausible scenario is that Shia-dominated Iraq moves closer to Iran’s strategic orbit rather than become part of America's regional designs.
And it knew that it was a new political body, engaging in a dialogue or even a showdown that would lead to an honest reckoning with poverty and the high cost of living.
Israel conducted the recent showdown with Hamas in a regional context that has changed dramatically since its last incursion into Gaza, “Operation Cast Lead” in 2008.
Israel’s leaders believe that the day of reckoning with Hamas will come only when the conditions for a major military showdown are riper.
Why, then, did China force a showdown in the Security Council?
September could also be the month when we witness an explosive showdown between the Trump administration and China.
Since the prolonged showdown over the budget began earlier this year, the stock market has lost about 20% of its value (roughly $10 trillion).
In the ongoing showdown over currencies, who will blink first?
The alternative would be a showdown that brings the debate to the European public.
Hezbollah, drained by its costly effort to support Assad in Syria’s civil war, is not particularly eager to engage in a showdown with Israel now.
I can think of few European officials less suitable for a showdown with Saddam Hussein.
So what other bills do they plan not to pay as part of a showdown over legislation to keep the government funded?
Of course, the West – particularly the US – bears its share of responsibility for the failure to find a diplomatic solution to the current showdown with Russia.
In spite of this, Abdullah may not be able to shape the future, because he seems doomed to lose any showdown with Naif’s forces.
One could be found under the framework of the Minsk peace process, the series of agreements cobbled together to defuse the showdown between Russia and Ukraine.
The Coming Crunch In The European UnionLONDON: Europe is heading for a showdown, with France and Germany on one side and Britain on the other, over the European Union's future.
What it does mean is that, whereas for the past 25 years France and Germany usually saw their interest in trying to finesse or wait out British obstructions, today they may see a common interest in forcing a final showdown.
Trump is surrounded by hardliners in his administration who are seeking a showdown with the Islamic Republic.
Last year’s congressional showdown over the federal debt ceiling may have cost the US its AAA sovereign rating with Standard & Poor’s, but the federal government’s borrowing costs are actually lower now than they were then.
They believe that – as in the past – the fiscal showdown will end with a midnight compromise that avoids both default and a government shutdown.
Moreover, prosecutors’ efforts to uncover the truth are not a campaign to discredit the Turkish army, as some allege; nor has the exposure of “Sledgehammer” led to an emerging showdown between “secularists” and “Islamists.”
They try to depict this as a showdown between the “Islamist AKP” and the country’s democracy-loving secularists.
The legal investigations now underway do not mark a showdown between Islamists and secularists, nor are they a campaign to discredit Turkey’s generals.
JERUSALEM – Israelis and Palestinians are preparing for a showdown at the United Nations in September, when the Palestinian leadership will ask for recognition of a Palestinian state within the borders that existed before the Six Day War in 1967 (when Israel seized control of Jordanian-occupied territory).
Focusing on the looming September showdown should not prevent decision makers from looking ahead.
Evidence of extreme dysfunction in US politics is already plain to see, reaching a low in 2011 during the debt-ceiling showdown (also in August), which cost America its AAA sovereign rating from Standard & Poor’s.
In a showdown over the composition of the cabinet just before his inauguration on June 1, the FMLN old guard won, threatening to take the conflict to the streets.
But uncoordinated action could result in a vicious cycle of retaliation, turning the currency war into a full-blown trade showdown, with serious consequences for all parties involved.
The issue is not only what could be lost in the race to the bottom in which many EU national governments are now engaging, but also the manipulative anti-EU sentiment coming from many quarters of the European press, which appears intent on pushing various national leaders into another budget showdown.
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