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Those hoping for a massive attack on Iran to destroy what remains of its nuclear program, to devastate its store of 1,500-2,000 ballistic missiles, and to get Iran to agree to stop giving support to its proxies, the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, may well be disappointed. Though every other day President Donald Trump changes his mind as to what he may, or may not, do in Iran, at the moment, his aides have let it be understood that he is now planning a limited strike that would leave the supreme leader’s regime in place, but sufficiently chastened so that he will be more willing to accept American demands for a complete end to Iran’s nuclear program. More on Trump’s latest plan can be found here: “Trump says ‘considering’ limited strike on Iran to coax it into accepting deal on his terms,” Times of Israel, February 20, 2026:
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was considering a limited military strike on Iran to coax it into accepting a nuclear deal on Washington’s terms as the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, steamed into the Mediterranean.
The threat came as Iran said it would be ready to present its draft of a possible nuclear deal to the US within two or three days, but also claimed that a demand for zero uranium enrichment was not on the table.
Amid the tensions, the Israel Defense Forces said it was on high alert amid expectations that Iran would attack and fire missiles at Israel should the US strike. However, the military reiterated that there were currently no new instructions or restrictions for the Israeli public.
Asked by reporters on Friday if he was looking at a limited strike after The Wall Street Journal reported as much, Trump paused and smiled before responding, “I guess you can say I am considering it.”
However, as reporters were ushered out of the room at a White House event, Trump appeared to mock the question, suggesting that he wasn’t going to publicly telegraph his plans regarding Iran….
Mossad has an extensive network of agents throughout Iran that surpasses those of all other foreign powers, including the U.S. But Israel will, of course, share with the U.S. any intelligence it has on the whereabouts of Iranian senior officials and military men, just as it has done in the past. Israel also shares information with the U.S on the nuclear enrichment sites at Natanz, Fordow, and in the city of Isfahan.
Amid the US military buildup, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran would be ready to submit its plan for a nuclear agreement to the United States in the coming days.
“The next step for me is to present draft of possible deal to my counterparts in the US. I believe that in the next two, three days, that would be ready, and after final confirmation by my superiors, that would be handed over to Steve Witkoff,” Araghchi said in an interview published online on Friday with the Morning Joe show on US TV network MSNBC.
Araghchi dismissed the notion that Trump had given Iran a deadline.
“Well, I have to say that first of all, there is no ultimatum. We only talk with each other how we can have a fast deal. And a fast deal is something that both sides are interested about,” Araghchi said.
Trump did indeed say on February 19 that he expected a satisfactory response from Iran on the nuclear issue “within ten days.” That sounds like an ultimatum to me.
Araghchi also said that US negotiators have not requested Tehran end its nuclear enrichment program, contradicting statements from American officials.
“We have not offered any suspension, and the US side has not asked for zero enrichment,” Araghchi said in the interview….
Trump said publicly several weeks ago that he expects there to now be zero enrichment of uranium by Iran, but it may be that the tag-team of Witkoff and Kushner did not repeat that demand in their own negotiations with Aragchi. Aragchi has therefore chosen to believe that the U.S. has “not asked for zero enrichment.”
Someone is lying about American demands for zero enrichment, and it is not the Americans.
Trump let down the protesters in January with his unfulfilled promise that “help is on the way” if the Islamic Republic continued to kill them. The Iranian rulers continued to kill protesters, albeit at a lower level because the protests themselves had subsided, but help was not, after all, “on its way.” Trump may not want to be seen again as someone who is all hat and no cattle. He has to do something against the regime in Tehran, but the dilemma is what at this point makes the most sense.
If Iran only wants its uranium used for peaceful purposes — the country’s nuclear reactors — it has no need to enrich it beyond the level of 3.67%. There is only one plausible explanation for its enriching uranium to 60% purity, just one step below the weapons-grade level of 90%. Iran does intend to build a nuclear weapon. That enriching of uranium to the level of 60% is the surest proof of its malefic intentions.
After sending the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and escort battleships to the Gulf in January, he ordered a second carrier, the Gerald Ford, to depart for the Middle East.
Meanwhile, Iranian naval forces this week conducted military drills in the Gulf and around the strategic Strait of Hormuz in their own show of force.
Would Trump have assembled such a force, the mightiest American force since the Iraq War, only to put pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear program? Isn’t it more likely that the president will again attack Iran, this time not for a few hours one afternoon as happened in the 12-Day War, but for several weeks, during which the American forces will do all of the following: first, decapitate both the civilian and military leadership, including the supreme leader and the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps; second, strike again at the uranium enrichment sites at Fordow and Natanz that this past June were devastated, but not entirely destroyed, and also strike with bunker-busters a new site that the Iranians have built inside Pickaxe Mountain, under 1606 meters of earth and rock; third, destroy as many of the estimated 1,500-2,000 ballistic missiles Iran still has in its armory, a key demand of our ally Israel.
What’s to come is still unsure, but every day it looks more and more as if Iran has made a fatal error in not coming to terms, when it still had a chance, with The Donald.
Meanwhile Liberal Democrats and the Anti Ice useful idiots their head explode into so much leaf mold and Cobwebs
First, it’s just far too late for any type of “diplomatic settlement’.” The reason why this is so is because the massive human carnage is so horrendous that those murderous despots of Iran must be brought to justice. Likewise, their tyrannical Islamic regime need to be destroyed.
Second, the very idea of having “negotiations” with those tyrants is very wrong, for in a sense, such “talks’ will give a type of an image of “legitimacy” to that murderously brutal bloodthirsty cruel horrific Islamic tyranny of Iran.
Furthermore, it’s outright folly end naïve stupidity to feel and thing the those despots can be reason in honest dialogue. .Those tyrants with disingenuous words, half-truths and outright lies of Islamic deception, Taqiyya, will only be stalling for time restore their deadly weapons construction and manufacturing center to engage further jihad /murder attacks against America and Israel, some of those weapons they will to Hamas and Hezbollah.
For that hostile:” mullah regime” hates America and the American people and wants to destroy us no matter what. So let’s get it over with a strike that Islamic tyranny.
President Trump should enough information to realize this.
Nevertheless Donald Trump, sadly, is proving by his own inaction that he must be all talk and no action of undertaking the fitting US military operation to keep is promises to the Iranian people.
By Trump making himself to be buff, empty words and false promises he terribly let down the Iranians who trusted him to keep his word of aiding the Iranian patriots with American military force.
Donald Trump by not backing up his words US Air Force strikes at that regimes weapon and tyranny control centers, Trump has very much tarnished is reputation as strong determined man who keeps his word . Likewise, he has put dishonor upon the office of the Presidency of the United States.
As for the latter part of the above, top quote “Trump did nothing except to enter into negotiations with the Islamic Republic.” The fact of reality is that it’s just far too late for any type of “diplomatic settlement’.” The reason why this is so is because the massive murderous human carnage with so much innocent human bloodshed that is so horrendous evil that those brutal cruel death- inflecting despots of Iran must be brought to justice, in the they must be severely punished Likewise, their tyrannical Islamic regime need to be destroyed.
It’s had been rightly and wisely said that “Half-measures in was is folly and madness”
The policy of a “limited“ strike” on that horrendously horrible tyranny will only feed the propaganda machine of that “Islamic Republic of Iran to use against the United States
That “carrot or stick” policy will never sway, in any way, those dangerous despots of that Islamic tyranny of Iran. Any so called “negotiations “of the official of those disingenuous and outright lying tyrants in power is a waste of effort and time. For that’s exactly what they would do, that is stall for time to secretly construct nuclear weapons.
Therefore, it best to get it over with and eliminate those dictators and destroy that horrendously horrible regime finally and forever.
For it continues to send deadly weapons to murderous jihad terror entities as Hamas and Hezbollah will continue to do so as long as that wicked regime will endure.
The Iranian people are relying on President Trump to keep his promise the Iranians to aid them in their righteous and just quest to liberate them from that brutal cruel oppressive death –inflecting tyranny if it keeps on murdering many Iranian freedom-loving patriots. Murdering them that is exactly what it is still doing.
So, President Trump prove that he is a man of his word help the people using what may be termed a military rescue mission to aid them in overthrowing that horrific evil regime and establish a legitimate, genuine, government that respects their basic human rights.
To put this in another way, that horrendously dangerous Islamic regime of Iran has been a deadly disaster to other nations with its aggressive missile strikes and its supporting vicious deadly terror groups, and it’s been nothing the oppressing miserly and death inflecting plague on the people of Iran
In short, it’s best to that that hostile and vicious terrorist state destroyed once and for all, and not fool around with a “limited strike”
The only “nuclear material” that Iran should be allowed is the rice-grain size radioactive “seeds” injected into a male patient’s crotch to destroy his cancerous prostate gland. That’s the only “peaceful” justification for the ayatollahs to have anything radioactive at all.
ANY Iranian jets, drones, or torpedo boats detected anywhere in the Gulf — and of course near or approaching the strategic Strait of Hormuz — should be immediately blown out of the air or shot and missiled to pieces by the U.S. Navy. We easily have the capability to do that.
If Kharg Island still exists as Iran’s primary oil terminal in the Gulf (I’m not sure it still does), it should be obliterated to prevent even a drop of Iranian crude from loading yet another tanker.
Our attacks on the Iranian land shouldn’t be “limited”; their mission and goal should be the total destruction and obliteration of ALL of the “Islamic Republic’s” weapons and military assets, not just the “nuclear” sites.
A nice touch would be a missile strike that shattered Khomeni’s crystal sarcophagus in Qom and left the mad ayatollah’s shriveled cadaver scattered in pieces for blocks around to be picked up and fed to starving feral dogs. But that would just be a bonus.
No half-steps or “measured response” when dealing with these savage, bloodthirsty barbarians.
t’s had been rightly and wisely said that “Half-measures in was is folly and madness”
That “carrot or stick” policy will never sway, in any way, those dangerous despots of that Islamic tyranny of Iran. Any so called “negotiations “of the official of those disingenuous and outright lying tyrants in power is a waste of effort and time. For that’s exactly what they would do, that is stall for time to secretly construct nuclear weapons.
Therefore, it best to get it over with and eliminate those dictators and destroy that horrendously horrible regime finally and forever.
For it continues to send deadly weapons to murderous jihad terror entities as Hamas and Hezbollah will continue to do so as long as that wicked regime will endure.
The Iranian people are relying on President Trump to keep his promise the Iranians to aid them in their righteous and just quest to liberate them from that brutal cruel oppressive death –inflecting tyranny if it keeps on murdering many Iranian freedom-loving patriots. Murdering them that is exactly what it is still doing.
So, President Trump prove that he is a man of his word help the people using what may be termed a military rescue mission to aid them in overthrowing that horrific evil regime and establish a legitimate, genuine, government that respects their basic human rights.
To put this in another way, that horrendously dangerous Islamic regime of Iran has been a deadly disaster to other nations with its aggressive missile strikes and its supporting vicious deadly terror groups, and it’s been nothing the oppressing miserly and death inflecting plague on the people of Iran
In short, it’s best to that that hostile and vicious terrorist state destroyed once and for all, and not fool around with a “limited strike”
Could he have dithered over coming to the protesters’ aid in order to put the regime off his track now? Would he? I can only say that if he did, what he does now had better be worth waiting for, from the protesters’ perspective.