There appears to be a de-escalation of at least some of the tension between the United States and Iran.

U.S. President Donald Trump and other administration officials said there are currently no signs of threatening actions by Tehran. The administration has been on high alert in response to what officials called specific and credible threats from Iran against U.S. personnel in the Middle East.

CGTN’s Nathan King reports. 

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To discuss all of this:

• John Sitilides is a geopolitical strategist and consultant to the US State Department.
• Guy Burton is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ Middle East Center.
• Barbara Slavin is the director of the Atlantic Council’s Future of Iran Initiative.
• Adnan Tabatabai is an Iran analyst and the CEO of CARPO, a Middle East policy center. 

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