The Trump administration is reportedly preparing preliminary plans for an attack on Iran, including a massive aerial strike campaign on multiple Iranian military targets as one option that is being considered.
NY Post Trump, however, teased that the US was gearing up to retaliate should Tehran continue killing protesters in a post on Truth Social. “Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before,” he wrote Saturday. “The USA stands ready to help!!!”
No military equipment or personnel have been moved for a potential attack, the insiders said.
A US attack on Iran would not be unprecedented — Trump ordered the first-ever US strike on Iranian territory back in June. The US dropped at least six “bunker buster” bombs across three sites, including Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment plant, a deeply fortififed facility hidden nearly 300 feet beneath a mountain.
The bombing came after Iran threatened to use its nuclear muscle against Israel during their 12-Day War, and was coordinated with the Jewish state’s own extensive attacks on Tehran’s military infrastructure.
The US military’s threat to intervene follows repeated warnings by Trump that the Washington would repsond in support of protestors should the Iranian regime continue to show violence against its civilians. “You better not start shooting because we’ll start shooting too,” Trump warned Friday.
In response, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Trump of having hands “stained with the blood of Iranians” in remarks aired Friday.
“[The terrorists] are ruining their own streets … in order to please the president of the United States because he said that he would come to their aid,” Khamenei told a crowd of supporters shouting “Death to America!”
If there is to be US intervention, I truly hope that Israel stays clear of military action. We do not want the ME to unite under the flag of Islam. As of now it is a conflict between non Arabic, Shia Iran and the United States, and not against the Religion of Peace and the USA. Secondly, should there be a regime change and the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is to be brought back it has to be under a Democratic Constitutional Monarchy where there is a clear separation between Mosque and State, a clear separation between Clergy and Monarchy. The US ought to be permitted to establish a strong base in Iran, and mandatory advisors to the Monarchy.
Pahlavi has already said he would run Iran as a “secular democracy.”