On the same day this Thursday in which the one presided over – and directed and unilaterally decided upon by – Donald Trump begins; Various American media report that the president is considering making a decision that is far from the pacifism that his junta promises. A military operation against Iran that could take place this weekend, according to what has been published , y CBS.
The tension is nothing new, since both Washington and Tehran have been in a dialectical tug of war for months that accompanies the negotiations for a new nuclear agreement. However, Trump has not hidden at any time that this agreement will contain all the demands that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been formulating, the same person who already managed to force the United States to attack the Iranian nuclear program in the so-called .
The Trump Administration has made it clear that this agreement must contain a prohibition on Iran enriching uranium, a red line for the Ayatollah regime, who defend that they do not seek to obtain an atomic bomb, but rather the use of nuclear energy for civil purposes. If that point is not met, Washington will attack. And even Russia has offered to receive and guard the enriched uranium that Iran has, as a means of peaceful resolution. But the negotiations take place in another, longer time frame and what the American press has revealed is that the attack could arrive within a few days.
Where are we at?: “[Trump] “He’s spending a lot of time thinking about this.”
At this time, there would be nothing firmly decided, although the military deployments of both sides have dominated the latest news. The largest American aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Fordwas in Gibraltar yesterday, en route to join the Middle Eastern waters USS Abraham Lincoln which is already in the conflict area. For its part, Iran has carried out maneuvers in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than 70% of the world’s oil flow passes – and has warned that a US attack against Iran would not be limited to responding on the ground, in a clear threat to US bases in the region.
According to different sources told to the chain CNNthe White House has already received notice that the US Army is fully ready to launch an attack on Iran this weekend, the same weekend as Ramadan begins in the Shiite-majority country. However, another source has assured that Trump has privately expressed both arguments for and against the attack and is analyzing with military advisors what the best strategy or consequences would be.
In fact, the same medium has also published that, yesterday, Wednesday, there was a meeting with senior National Security officials, which could be translated as another sign that the attack option is gaining more weight in recent days. “He’s spending a lot of time thinking about this,” says another source. CNN.
Israel is also preparing the drums of war: a joint, multi-day attack to force a nuclear deal
The regional actor with the greatest interest in carrying out an attack on Iran – without ignoring part of the Iranian opposition that asks the US for surgical attacks against the ayatollahs – is Israel and it would also be preparing to attack Iran this weekend. Netanyahu’s government was already the one that initiated last year’s series of attacks against Iran, which resulted in bombings against nuclear facilities.
Despite constantly disavowing its ally Trump Administration, striking unilaterally, Tel Aviv managed to join the US Army in its offensive to destroy the complexes where Iran stores the centrifuges to enrich uranium. Israel needed the B-2 Spirit bombers, capable of carrying the GBU-57 bunker buster bombs that could penetrate and (Fordow).
According to two sources from the Israeli Ministry of Defense, The New York TimesIsrael has also increased military preparations for a military operation, but this would be carried out jointly with the US. . The New York newspaper advances another fundamental clue as to when this attack could occur, that the Israeli security cabinet will meet this Sunday.
These same sources have transferred to The New York Times that the design of the operation would involve a joint coup that would last several days and whose main objective is for Iran to end up agreeing to accept the nuclear agreement in the terms proposed by the US and Israel. This scenario, closer to Israeli defense interests, would mean a bucket of cold water for the opposition that wants the leadership of the regime to be attacked and a political transition led by the son of the shah who fell after the Islamic Revolution, Reza Korosh Pahlavi, to be forced.
