Washington, in fact its president, Donald Trump, has assured that it has given a period of 10 days to reach an agreement on nuclear matters with the Iranian authorities, while yesterday talks resumed with the envoys of each party in Oman. Under the threat that if he is not satisfied, with the announced support of Israel. That deadline still covers next week, but there are serious doubts that Trump will keep his word and attack this weekend.
These fears are given by a series of movements that could be interpreted as clues that the Trump Administration could once again be playing catch-up, like when the with which they attacked the Iranian nuclear program facilities in Nantaz, Isfahan, with bunker-busting bombs, but above all, in the underground enclave of Fordó -Fordow-.
The United States will not only see its largest aircraft carrier arrive in the conflict zone throughout the day, the USS Gerald Fordhas also given permission to Israeli embassy staff to pack their bags and leave the country for security reasons. But he has commended them to do it today, as he has advanced Reuters.
A possible attack that already flew over last weekend
In this sense, the attack on Iran was a possibility that was already feared to occur last weekend, after learning of information from different American media such as CNN o The New York Timeswho published that the only thing missing was for Trump to make up his mind and give the green light to a series of precision attacks, which would be directed against the leadership of the ayatollah regime.
The meeting of the Israeli security council also took place last Sunday, the body in which military actions are studied, decided and approved. It is one of the last procedures prior to the start of an attack operation. However, Donald Trump himself ended up testifying before journalists, aboard the presidential plane. Air Force Onewho had given that deadline. The truth is that when these statements were made, the USS Gerald Fordwas still at the height of the Strait of Gibraltar.
However, it is worth remembering that last spring, in the midst of an exchange of missiles between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the US had indicated that it would not join the Israeli attacks, visibly upset by Netanyahu’s way of acting unilaterally without Washington. He took off several B-2 Spirit bombers, but used the technology stealth -invisible mode- of other of these combat aircraft to attack Iran’s nuclear program.
What can happen? What type of attack?
Along these lines, and according to what was published by the aforementioned American media, the US plans involve selective and precision attacks against key objectives, while Israel would have been preparing for the joint blow to Tehran. The Israeli Army would also have designed a strategy to attack for several days.
Precisely, whether a conflict with Iran is prolonged is an American issue. Several senior military commanders have warned Trump of Iranian capabilities and that it could end up leading to a high number of American casualties. Trump has rejected that possibility and has maintained that it would be “an easy victory.”
It is also worth noting that within the US Army there are numerous doubts about the effectiveness of an attack of these characteristics to force Tehran to accept its conditions for a nuclear agreement. See giving up uranium enrichment – Iran claims to be able to use it for civilian purposes – as well as the ballistic missile program. The reason lies in initial reports from last year’s attack, which stated that Iran’s nuclear program had not been destroyed.
