Bolton, meanwhile, communicated in old-school terms to leaders Caracas, Pyongyang and Tehran with threats about the prospect of direct action by U.S military... Bolton and Trump were reported to have had a prolonged estrangement with White House staffers being quoted as saying..…

Trump has offered to meet Rouhani to discuss agreement to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons, and Iranians have demanded that U.S first relax sanctions on Tehran. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, said the threat of war goes down exponentially with John Bolton out of..…