Donald Trump is promising economic warfare “on an unprecedented scale” against Iran, an “economic D-Day.” Trump makes these kinds of dumb, empty threats all the time—previous menacing pronouncements have run the gamut from war crimes to outright genocide—and the Iranians probably are right to shrug them off.

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