With Iran stalling on the nuclear talks and issuing fresh threats, President Donald Trump could be compelled to order a military strike in the coming days or weeks, U.S. and Israeli news outlets report.
“The Trump administration is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize,” Axios reported Wednesday. “It could begin very soon.”
According to the news outlet, the military response will likely come in the form of “a joint U.S.-Israeli campaign that’s much broader in scope — and more existential for the regime — than the Israeli-led 12-day war last June, which the U.S. eventually joined to take out Iran’s underground nuclear facilities.”
The reveal comes a day after Iran’s dictator, Ali Khamenei, threatened to ‘send’ American aircraft carriers to the ‘bottom of the sea’ as the Trump administration was in talks with Iranian negotiators in Geneva, Switzerland. The blatant threat coincides with the Iranian military blockading the Strait of Hormuz for several hours and conducting war games in the world’s busiest oil shipping lane.
The Times of Israel reported, citing Hebrew-language Channel 12:
A military confrontation between the US and Iran could begin in the coming days and be an intensive, multi-week campaign, sources said Wednesday, despite ongoing diplomatic talks between Washington and Tehran.Former IDF Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin suggested Wednesday that such a confrontation could be imminent.“Last week I allowed myself to fly to the Munich Security Conference. I would think twice about flying [abroad from Israel] this weekend,” Yadlin told Channel 12 news on Wednesday, a day after a second round of nuclear talks was held in Geneva.“We are much closer than we were before, but I remind you — a superpower does not go to war in a matter of days. There is a diplomatic path that must be exhausted,” said Yadlin, who now heads a national security consultancy.Yadlin added that “many oppose the attack. The Pentagon is not clear what they want it to achieve. The president is very determined. The statement that all options are on the table is based on a credible military threat, which comes alongside the preparations off the coast of Iran and in the skies.”
Reports suggest that Iran is preparing for a possible U.S. strike on its nuclear weapons facilities.
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance admitted that Tehran has ignored the administration’s crucial demands. Vance “said Iran had failed to acknowledge core U.S. demands in talks here Tuesday, after which Washington said it had agreed to give Tehran two weeks to close the gaps between the sides,” The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday.
President Trump has made it clear that the regime has to abandon its nuclear weapons program to ‘make a deal’ with Washington.
With Khamenei continuing to hold public rallies, where regime loyalists renew the calls for “Death to” Israel and America, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) remains on high alert. On Sunday, the Israeli military’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, announced that the nation’s armed forces were “operating at a high operational-offensive speed.”
“We are in a multi-front campaign,” the military chief said in a speech, addressing senior reserve officers. “We will increase flexibility in organizing reserve duty days in order to better support your personnel and sharpen readiness.”
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