Continue the offensive. In the Middle East and in the official statements of the Trump Administration. The Secretary of War – formerly the Department of Defense – of the United States, Pete Hegseth, promised this Tuesday that it will be the most intense day of the more than a week that the operation has been underway. Epic Fury -he -. Specifically, Hegseth said that “today will, once again, be the most intense day of attacks inside Iran”, in a promise very similar to that of the previous day.
In a certainly triumphalist tone, the US Secretary of War has assured that “in the Gulf they have been abandoned, and their allies, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas, are defeated, ineffective or have been left on the sidelines”, so . In this context, Hegseth has announced that the intensity promised in the next attacks this day will translate into “more bombers and more fighters being sent.”
Meanwhile, the US president himself, Donald Trump, has delved into this idea of a defeated Iran that seeks negotiation as a way out, pointing out that it would be possible to start these talks. “I hear that they are very interested in talking,” Trump revealed in an interview with the leading media outlet of the Republican Party.
Asked if his administration could enter into negotiations with senior Iranian officials, Trump indicated that “it’s possible, just possible,” but “it depends on the terms.” Hours earlier, the Iranian regime itself was responding to another previous statement by Trump, from last Monday, when the price of a barrel of Brent pulverized $100 before moderating. It will be Tehran who will decide if the war is over. That is, they will fight to the last consequences, despite being clearly inferior to one of the greatest military powers in the world.
Cornered by public opinion and the fear of a long war with more economic bleeding
Hegseth has put several indicators on the table that allow him to delve deeper into the US version that recent days have been hard on Iranian weapons capabilities. According to the Secretary of War, Iran “has fired the smallest number of missiles it has been able to launch so far.” The US figures also count 5,000 bombed targets, 50 of them Iranian Navy ships, whose total destruction is one of the objectives of this war.
The US Chief of Staff, General Dan Caine, has put figures on this decline. Ballistic missile fire – the key to the Iranian response – has fallen by 90%, while drones – which force the US and Israel to spend millions of dollars to intercept devices that are only worth tens of thousands – have fallen to 83%. All this according to the Pentagon version.
The Secretary of War has once again distanced himself after the controversial initial statements in which he hinted that they had no choice but to go to war because Israel would act on its own no matter what, dragging the US and its regional partners into the conflict, ensuring that “we are no longer in the year 2003”, in reference to the war in Iraq. Although he has stressed that this “will not stop until the enemy is completely defeated.”
“This is not an endless mission like those we saw during the Administration of [George W.] Bush o [Barack] Obama. Our president will not allow it, he has opposed this type of endless missions of dubious scope. Those days are over,” defended Hegseth, who then once again hinted at the temporal contradiction that accompanies them: “From the beginning we have not said how long it will take. Our will is endless and, ultimately, it is the president who decides.” That is, they say it will be quick, but .
The Trump ‘show’: “They should have said: ‘We are not going to build a nuclear missile'” (Yes, they said it)
On the other hand, Trump’s interview in Fox News He has left another series of statements that also constitute another review of the US argument to justify a military intervention – and against a country with which it was in negotiations over its nuclear program – that is not protected by international law. Among them, a large number of falsehoods. Like the “strike first” thesis, an extension of US preventive wars to prevent more wars.
According to Trump, the operation Epic Fury was necessary because “if we hadn’t done it, it would have been a much tougher fight.” It refers to the fact that, with the first bombings, the US and Israel would have managed to destroy 50% of the Iranian ballistic missiles. He also boasted that “no other president had the guts to do it.” It should be noted that Obama signed the treaty with Tehran to limit its nuclear capabilities, the same as .
From there, Trump has also resorted to fear of the development of a nuclear weapon by Iran as a justification for the attacks. “If we had waited three days, I think we would have been attacked,” Trump said in the interview. In case there were any doubts about what the Iranians would use in that attack, the US president has assured that “if they had gotten hold of a bomb [nuclear]they would have used it against Israel and other parts of the Middle East.”
“If they had gotten a bomb [nuclear]they would have used it against Israel”
Donald Trump, US president
And it has gone one step further. He has spoken that he had direct information from his men for the Near and Middle East: special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The same ones behind the plan to raise a resort with, expelling the Palestinians. According to Trump, in the midst of those negotiations with the Iranian delegation, Witkoff and Kushner told him that the Iranian regime had enough enriched uranium to make 11 nuclear bombs.
How did Trump react? “I told them that [los iraníes] They weren’t being smart, since they had basically said I had to attack them. They should have said: ‘We are not going to build a nuclear missile,'” he developed in the interview. At this point, it is worth remembering two issues. The first is that, at all times and on various occasions, Tehran assured that it was not developing nuclear bombs, that its program had only civil purposes, in addition to committing to never try to create this type of weaponry.
The second issue is that the main world organizations, including the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), have been warning that there is no evidence that Iran has nuclear weapons or is in a position to manufacture them. The four US intelligence agencies also agree on this point. By the way, in the Operation Midnight Hammer.
