LOS ANGELES (OC).–President Donald Trump sent the big guns to the Mediterranean deploying the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and Gerald R. Ford carrier strike groups to close proximity to Iran. Trump wants Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to sign a new nuke deal where Iran agrees in the future to stop entirely or curtail greatly its uranium enrichment program. During last years 12-day war with Israel and the United States, Trump said his B-2 Stealth bombers strikes destroyed much of Iran’s uranium enrichment sites, especially at its main underground Fordo site. Iran apparently hasn’t enriched uranium since but has not ruled out enriching uranium in the future. Trump vowed that under his watch the Ayatollah would not get a nuclear bomb, something he was heading toward enriching uranium to weapon’s grade material. Trump wants more from this Ayatollah this time around.
Since nationwide protests broke out in January the mullah government has killed some 36,000 street protesters with thousand more arrested waiting for liquidation. Trump told the Iranian people that help was on the way but not saying what exactly he would do. Judging by the deployment of two carrier strike groups, Trump isn’t expecting much progress in the latest round of indirect nuke talks in Geneva. Coordinating with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump looks poised this time around to topple the Ayatollah’s regime, something the vast majority of Iranians want. Son of the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi has worked with Trump officials to provide some kind of interim government should Trump decided to take down the Ayatollah. Ayatollah has threatened to destroy U.S. warships now approaching the MediterranEan Sea.
Trump has tried to negotiate a better nuke deal with Iran for months, only to get strung along prompting last ditch talks in Geneva. Khamenei thinks he can outsmart Trump, dragging indirect talks into the foreseeable future. But with the Republican Guard and Basij militia killing thousands of street protester, Truump has set a red line for Iran. Sending the two carrier battle groups to the Mediterranean, Trump has all the assets he needs to defend Israel in the event Iran starts firing ballistic missiles at U.S. assess and Israel. Netanyahu wants Trump to take down the Ayatollah’s ballistic missile defense system, the last ditch method of defense. Israel and the U.S. found that Iran has weak air defenses over its military installation, including the Ayatollah’s headquarters in Tehran. Trump tol the press that U.S. intel knew the whererabouts of the Ayatollah’s bunker in Tehran.
Trump told the press that there’s been little progress in indirect peace talks with Iran for some time. “It’s prove to be, over the years, not easy to make a meaningful deal with Iran, and wer have to make a ameningful deal, Otherwise bad things happen,” Trump said today. Ayatollah Khaemenei is running out of time and the two carrier strike groups get closer to Iran. Trump has many more air assets spread across multiple bases in the Mideast. “This week another 50 U.S. combat aircraft—F-35s, F-22s, and F-16s were ordered to the region, supplementing the hundreds deployed to bases in the Arab Gulf states,: said New York-based Soufan Center think tank wrote. “The deployments reinforce Trump’s threat—restated on a dearly daily basis—to proceed with a major air and missile campaign on the regime if talks fail,” said Soufan Center.
Engaging in joint military operations with Russia, Iran hopes to stave off any U.S. attack. But Russian President Vladimir Puitn is mired in Ukraine, unable to provide Iran any military help with Trump decides to strike the Ayatollah’s headquarters. Trump has worked feverishly with Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to end the Ukraine War. Putin finds himself unwilling to compromise on leaving Ukrainian territory. Zelensky thinks that if Putin wants peace, he needs to withdraw from all Ukrainian sovereign territory, including the Crimean Peninsula. Putin has made clear that if Zelensky wants peace, he needs to withdraw his toops from eastern Donbas, essentially leaving the Peoples Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Russian hands. Putin offered to leave other parts of Ukraine If Zelensky agreed to cede eastern Donbas to Russia.
U.S. and Israel have coordinated to finish the job left off when the Israeli-Iran War ended June 24. Netahyahu wants the U.S. and Israel to destroy what’s left of Iran’s ballistic missile program, another issue on Netanyahu’s agenda. Israel isn’t as concerned with the nuke issue or the massacre of street protesters, preferring to stay focused on Iran’s ballistic missile program. “We are prepared for any scenario,” said Netanyahu today. Netanyahu promised that if Iran fires more missiles at Tel Aviv “they will experience a response they cannot even imagine.” Trump looks inclined to do what no other U.S. administration has done since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He’s looks prepared for regime change, something the vast majority of Iranians want after living 47-years under a brutal mullah crackdown. Iran doesn’t think Trump has the guts to oust the Ayatollah.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
