Michael Patrick Mulroy

American civil servant

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The Houthis have proven many times in the past that they have the ability and willingness to obstruct maritime traffic in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb strait,
Iran of course wants to see the end of the war in Lebanon as part of an agreement to end the war between itself and the U.S.,
Iran is the biggest destabilizing force in the Middle East,
I’m calling it a war. We haven’t declared war since World War II. We’ve had plenty of wars since then, right? We all call it war, and everybody in the world calls it war, and historians call it war,
  • said Mick Mulroy, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East in the first Trump administration and is now a distinguished military fellow at the Middle East Institute
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The US military has an ethos to never leave someone behind,
You really have to focus on the risks that we’re putting this force up against. They are the best in the world, but that doesn’t mean that we should use them without serious deliberation on the risk versus the benefit, looking for alternatives,

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Why Iran's hardliners keep blocking a US deal — and why they matter

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U.S. ally Israel is pushing for the disarmament of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, a key member of Iran's Axis of Resistance coalition that intervened in the immediate wake of the October 2023 attack by the Palestinian Hamas group—triggering the regional conflict that has engulfed the Middle East

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Iran war: What is happening on day 92 as Trump weighs Iran deal

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U.S. ally Israel is pushing for the disarmament of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, a key member of Iran's Axis of Resistance coalition that intervened in the immediate wake of the October 2023 attack by the Palestinian Hamas group—triggering the regional conflict that has engulfed the Middle East

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F-15 airman's 3-word message after Iran shootdown made US fear ‘false signals’ trap

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The United States pulled off a daring rescue of two aviators whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, plucking the pilot from behind enemy lines before setting off a complicated extraction of the second service member who hid deep in the mountains as Tehran called for Iranians to help capture him

The Manila Timesmanilatimes.net/2026/04…

Trump's Military Options As Iran War Feared: Four Scenarios

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It also depends on whether Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, orders the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran’s proxy forces in Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, as well as terror cells around the world, to mount counter-attacks that kill Americans, Israelis or people in our Gulf allies

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