LOS ANGELES (OC).–With the largest military build-up since the 1992 GulFWar, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are close to striking Iran. Talks over a new nuke deal in Geneva have gone nowhere, frustrating Trump, knowing that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has not intent of acquiescing to the American Devil. For 47-years, the Aytollah’s have ruled Iran with an iron fist, squelching dissent with mass arrests and executions. Only recently, Khamenei put down a nationwide revolt, killing over 36,000 street protesters, arresting and liquidating thousands more. Trump warned Ayatollah to stop slaughtering his own people or face justice from the U.S. military. Iran doesn’t believe that that Trump and Netanyahu would pull the trigger, this time for keeps, seeking nothing less that regime change in Tehran. Khamenei hides in in underground bunker.
Asked whether there would be war in Iran, Trump said he hoped not but anything can happen. “I’d love to not “use” the U.S. military but wouldn’t rule out using force to stop the Ayatollah’s brutal crackdown. “We haven‘t made a final decision,” Trump told reporters today. “We have some additional talks today,” Trump said, hinting the fireworks could start at anytime. When Trump met with Natanyahu last week, they weren’t talking about tiddlywinks. Netanyahu expressed deep reservations about leaving Iran with its current ballistic missile program that threatens U.S. and Israeli assets. “We’re not thrilled with the way they’re negotiating,” Trump said. “They can’t have nuclear weapons,” something Iran denies but its nuclear enrichment program showed otherwise. Since Trump cancelled Obama’s nuke deal May 8, 2018, Iran has enriched unlimited uranium.
Trump has many reasons, not just Iran’s nuke program, to take down the 47-year-old mullah regime, including being the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East. Iran’s proxies, including Hamas, Hezbolah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, have been weakened since Netanyahu refused to buckle under global pressure and give up his war with Hamas. Netanyahu knows the Mideast can know no peace with the Ayatollah sponsoring territorism, all designed to destroy Israel. When Israel spent 12-days from June 12-24, 2025, the U.S. and Israel learned a lot about Iran’s air defenses. Trump and Netanyahu have no fear of Iranian retaliation, knowing they could can easily take out any of their air defenses. Netanyahu reminded Trump that he has a close partner with Israel having its own agenda in Iran. Trump talks about an Iranian nuclear threat but it’s much more.
Trump won’t act unilaterally on Iran, expecting Isarel to take the lead in any conflict, especially on Iran’s ballistic missile program. Trump plans to back up Israel with GBU-57 bunker buster bombs, using Mossad intel to track down Ayatollah Khaemenei. Israel got Hezbollah’s Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah Nov. 27, 2024 in Beirut. Starting a conflict with Iran this time around, Trump knows he must go all the way to end Ayatollah’s mullah rule. Nothing less would be acceptable. Talks in Geneva give Trump cover to say he tried diplomacy but it didn’t work. Mullah rule has robbed the Iranian public of a future, driving millions of Iranians into exile. Trump was told by the Shah’s son Reza Pahlavi that he’s ready to lead an interim government in Iran before an new government can be chosen. Toppling he Ayatollah comes with consequences.
Forty seven years ago, most Americians lived through the horror of Iran seizing the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 54 hostages and holding them for 444 days, released Jan. 20, 1081, the day of President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration. Trump has reinstated the Reagan doctrine with his own name on it, reversing the globalist view of former Presidents Baracak Obama and Joe Biden. Both believed that U.S. foreign policy and national security must take orders from the European Union. Trump has made many enemies in the EU, not because he’s done anthing wrong but because he’s made them look inconsequential. Trump proceeded to end the Ukraine War by working hard with the Russian Federation to figure out a formula to end the war. EU officials have done nothing but obstruct peace.
Judging by Trump’s military build-up in the Mideast, it looks like he’s ready, with Israel’s help, to pull the trigger on Iran. Gone are the days of appeasement when U.S. presidents would make concessions based on fear that Iran would start a regional war, sucking in Arab states into a new war with Israel. After last years 12-day war with Iran, Netanyahu isn’t the least bit concerned about finishing the job in Iran. He wants to take out Iran’s ballistic missile program, no longer threatening Israel and U.S. assets in the region. Trump has been begged by the Persian exile community whose families have lived under the Ayatollah’s brutal crackdown to change regimes in Tehran. Trump knows the stakes are high but he has supreme confidence in the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
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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.
