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United States President Donald Trump is weighing options against Iran that include targeted strikes on security forces and leaders to inspire protesters, Reuters reported on January 29, citing multiple sources.
Earlier this month, Trump threatened military action if Iran killed protesters or carried out mass executions of prisoners, but he backed down soon after, claiming the Islamic Republic halted the hangings of 800 detainees. Still, he ordered the deployment of additional U.S. military assets into the Middle East, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.
Two U.S. sources familiar with the discussions told the news agency that Trump wanted to create conditions for “regime change”.
According to the sources, he is looking at options to hit commanders and institutions that Washington holds responsible for the violence, to give protesters the confidence that they could overrun government and security buildings.
One of the sources also said the options being discussed also included a much larger strike intended to have a lasting impact, possibly against the nuclear or ballistic missile programs.
The other source noted, however, that Trump has not yet made a final decision on a course of action, including whether to order a strike.
A separate report by CNN revealed that U.S. and Iranian officials earlier this month discussed organizing a meeting with no success.
Washington set some serious demands to Tehran, according to the network, including a permanent end to the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment, new limits on its ballistic missile program, and a stop to its support for regional proxy forces.
Iran agreed to hold talks with the U.S. on its nuclear program, but refused all demand related to the missile program, sources told CNN.
One of the sources said that Trump’s preferred scenario would be that a swift, powerful strike force Tehran to accept the demands.
Amid these discussions within the Trump administration, Washington witnessed separate meetings involving senior defense and intelligence officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia. According to Axios, the meetings centered around potential U.S. strikes on Iran.
The U.S. news website said that Israeli officials, including the military’s Intelligence Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder, are sharing intelligence on potential targets in Iran, whereas the Saudis are trying to head off a war through diplomatic means. Binder met senior Pentagon, CIA and White House officials on January 27 and 28, two U.S. officials told Axios.
Meanwhile, Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman — younger brother of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — is meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff on January 29 and 30.
The Saudi crown prince told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during a phone call earlier this week that Riyadh would not allow its airspace or territory to be used for military actions against Tehran.
All recent reports indicate that talks between the U.S. and Iran are very much stuck, and that Trump is once again planning to escalate.
While the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East earlier this week boosted U.S. military capabilities in the region. The size of the current military deployment is not enough to launch a strike powerful enough to seriously weaken Tehran, let alone to overthrow the government there.
The decision to strike Iran is either still weeks away, as more military assets should be deployed, or there is already an agreement on Israel joining in.
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usa is definitely going to suffer losses when they decide to attack
iran should attack before they are attacked, that is a lesson that should have been learned by now.
its a lesson, that should have be learned by russia, and china also. now the nazi in chief have declared that no laws are valid. there are also concentration camps created. its the exact same as in nazi germany, and you can see it mirrored in the enthusiasts for killing mothers and nurses among the comments.
73,600 palestinians have been killed in gaza, the majority were women, children and the elderly. israel refuses to allow them a separate state, these are their own people. if anywhere needs a regime change, it’s israel not iran.
the west need a real regime change : no more joôs
ramses s talking to himself and his other tags as usual working hard making fudge for a living. imo
200000, not 70000
hamas doesn’t want a seperate state, hamas wants all the palestinians to be citizens of israel and to be allowed to vote in israeli elections. when hamas eventually wins those elections israel will democratically become palestine. that is the hamas platform
when are you going to wake up? israel is unique it has no constitution. it has king chatles as its king. it has a prime minister who serves the king and a president to be the fall guy imo the supreme court supposedly runs the show but reality is all barristers have sworn an oath of loyalty to the sovereign.
no, i think they have the rotten corps of henrik 8 as king, at least his copycat, child molester adolf trump. do you throw in all those corpses only for to spend bandwidth ?
like the jews wanted to be a part of nazi germany. have you use drugs now again ? you wanted to shoot mothers and nurses, and now you want the nazis to disappear by voting !? go away, satan. you cant have it both ways.
do the history england evicted the caliphate from the region partitioned it into isreal gaza charles is king and don’t give yourself more votes than readers. it just looks silly. imo
“moderator me” is “allegedly” and “anonymous” the retarded australian kike ^^ so easy to spot
so its either a “jew”, or a degenerated criminal from another mass murder of native people ?
only go to hell, pam bondi. its a blessing its no picture, so you do not have to see satan.
“as talks fail” what a farce. iranian regime aren’t being head faked again like last time. they know talks with the judeo masons is 100% useless. israel has been targeting iran for 30+ years and the us even longer.
the fake jews have target palestine since before wwii, the first export of german nazis was done before the war. a fake jew, and a nazi are exactly the same thing. the balfour declaration was made 1917, by the masters of white colonialism, the british. it was made by a cannibal, a rothschild khazar. he simply demanded occupation of a foreign land, for the imposters, and of course, by that, him self.
more complete fabricated nonsense from ramses rear end backup persona. tedious, except for fantastic at least in its creativity. total bs of course. the usual khazar stupidity. imo
do you write from tel aviv ? can you use a search engine ? do you know what happen 1492 ? shut down your hamburger hole, and die, nazi. your tantrum do not change the skin color of idiots. do you try to convince your self that you are a human ? 😂
as farcical as this whole site in fact. with the journalists about as aware as the idiots in the circus of over brainwashed over institituionalised into correctness as nazi protégé of their patron tools. imo
the only thing farcial with it, is you, and the other nazis, that absolutely think you shall destroy everything. they should block all ip from “us” and “israel”, they should understand, that you are a pollution, as asbestos. dont be here, if you dont agree with the cleaning up of nazis, like your self.
the sf censors have translation issues from time to time
i think they have the issue of stick their head into the sand. its a machine, that censor. it can have several logarithms, number of posts, time of day. but yes, sometimes it looks like they absolutely not want something disputed. so much for their “international law” 😂 newtons laws do not counts.
at least we can be thankful they haven’t them up your backside.
go away, idiot. you will probably earn more zeros, if you kill mothers and nurses, like vanya. thats why you are so fixed to the backside. anally fixated are the most relevant therm for all of “american” cannibals.
not with your regular porn they don’t they just dissappear everything that’s not anti semitic anti american anti neo nazi anti lenin all of your contributions are safe as. imo
go away, idiot. you have no ethnicity, and no intelligens.
“putin hosts syria’s sharaa as russian forces exit north in tandem with us drawdown”… what about all those russians that made the ultimate sacrifice 10 years ago in eastern aleppo, now sitting with a zioni$t terr0ri$t negotiating the rest of the genocide for gaza?… can’t make it up! the russian people should terminate his rear end on this alone even with ukraine being far worse given it’s shared heritage and family in the eastern donbas.
pathetic. did putin invite assad to also come to the meeting? maybe have dinner with them also?
this is even worse than trump having the murderer and war criminal to the white house.
yes. as soon they have any contact with the fake ethnicity, they are insane. russia are probably the only country in the world, that have no problems with any evil empire 😂
until the americans have another obama, then the russians and chinese will rebel against the empire again.
so you mean that they should like a black nazi better ?
as long as i followed rt, and sputnik news, they did not recognize the false flag in 9/11, or the mass murder in the hospitals. this is unforgiveable, like they was at the same side as evil.
everything putin did the americans openly destroyed. not one thing is left standing.
go away, idiot. have you no drugs to use, and mothers and nurses to kill ?
american aircraft carrier 36 knots tops… hypersonic missile moving at mach 5… do the math. sure hope the american taxpayer can assist their most important ally in their transition from “iron” to “gold” dome with an increasingly deteriorating monetary system paying for it?…
its a expansion point for genocide, the american way of living.
you’re way. that’s what you would do if you had your way. imo
no 😂 i would throw away this mobile, and get rid of you idiots. go away, idiots.
assume 5 mins of hypersonic flight, math says even a large carrier has a true chance of evasion unless the hypersonic can course-correct. but: can hypersonics course-correct? isn’t the plasma due to hypersonic speed shielding the missile from incoming em-waves? does the heat-resistant mantle allow any form of optics, cameras and sensors for aiming and orientation as with slower missiles?
i tried to respond but the langely contingent that controls north american posts to s-f would not permit my response to your stupid a$$ post.
stay technical, a$$…
i will. regrettably for you ““2 + 2=5” / 3 buildings 2 planes!…
they are idiots, you can show them any hollywood movie, and they will take it as a cause to kill mothers and nurses.
the “planes” are trick movies. have you look at the shit on a big screen ? its as stupid as donald duck bird watching. you can not trust a word, a video from them. its cannibals from ten of thousands years back, and all they have done, are to lie.
do you use vpn ? from sweden, its enough to use a simple proxy at the library. but, from my experience with servers, i know, that you cant hide, if they use a total oversight of the internet. the technology in it self have much evilness.
missile can course correct when the mirv leaves the top stage of the rocket and when the mirv is close to target it can slow to a more manurvable speed
don’t forget, all missiles work better with nuclear warheads then they are all accurate enough
was it einstein that told you that ? do not trust him 😂
yes, and in the end, it eject the parachute.
why is it, that “americans” knows nothing about anything ? is it the drug use ? look at a video with a russian attack with a missile, especially oreshnik. can you see the warheads slow down ? i am pretty sure you are a drug user, who only make noises with her hamburger hole. you are so boring. for to slow down, with any significant retardation, it needs to brake with something 😂 go away, idiot.
they probably use retarded rockets on the missiles, as on the “moon lander” 😂 then they will land smoothley, as mossad agent vanya wants, who advertise for the exact same thing as in gaza.
as if any of the deadbeats voted for that!? give it a rest. at least try to preserve some scrap of cred.
you are so fixated with voting, and anal. its actually the same, you have voted forward something anal, probably your final product 😂
no, they have to use them as a shotgun, send some hundreds of missiles, and hope the carrier are located in the middle of the swarm, when it arrives.
regime change – not as though iran does not know the script. trump reminds me of a ‘kingsman’ script. legend in his own ego, very needy, very demanding and what would he do if he could not change the headlines on a daily basis?
do not forget the social posts ! i think he remember of henrik 8, 6 wifes. with the exception, that everything around him also rot.
look at you making your self transparent to everyone, ie me and the two other readers here.
of course you think that you, and the two other “americans” are everyone 😂
didn;t old henrik 8 also like beheading a wife or two, just like donny’s mates in the i srael secret intelligence service?
this is absolutely right. he beheaded so many wifes, that he is “famous” for it, and i have to look up the number of wifes, two wifes, and a countless number of other people.
both sides have been psych profiled and each attempts to play off those profiles. really pitiful in a way,
profiled as drug users ?
you remind me of a trollope script. very much very obviously too. ramses imo
you remind me of a “american” 😂
do you mean the 19th century author anthony trollope? not sure what script of his featured iran, regime change or the ‘old school’ english secret service dealing with a psychotic, sociopathic narcissistic and his/her ‘golden circle’? or if you meant joanna trollope, aren’t her novels based on wives and choirs, with the odd vicar or solicitor thrown in? has she started on melania and the golden choir yet?
talks always fail. it is a theater act to give the masses false hope and belief in the installed puppets that provide nothing to the people they pretend to represent. the pirates always speak in riddles. and can not answer any direct questions
when they vote for a oligarch, they will probably get cake to eat, soner or later 😂 i have personally not vote for anything for about 40 years. thank heaven ! its not so, that anything have happen, that have rise the politicians reputation. its simple a way to foul the population, and get a high income for it. “eu” are not even voted, its only cia parasites.
sorry, it should have read 50 years 😂 not like touch screen.
ramses clumsy with his dainty digits from numbness from over insertion into own orifice
thank god for humanity you’ve had no say in anything at all. what a blessing from the lord.
at least, the lord sent me a warning related to the fake pandemic one year in advance. but only they who have ears, can hear. in the end, its not i which shall tell you what to do. you should start to think, and its no sign of that at all. you more look like childs, stuck at the toilet training stadium 😂
more rubbish imo but you’ve been busy on this story as usual. on one of your troll rolls allegedly
go away, idiot. are you also on drugs ?
obviously you do. and no you couldn’t simply becayse you know nothing of thd reality if centuries of overlapping under currents that are routine for the ruling class you’re on a level too low to know. imo and you’re so silly that you haven’t a clue about your own inadequacies to talk about anything.
are your projection finish ?
maga faggot losers voted in a worse president than biden
judging by the lack of results the russians deserve better choices too.
no, it only take so long time for the killers of mothers and nurses to expose their hearts desire. they are little shy, despite their drug use.
yet more sf censorship
sad to watch the americans getting away with picking off any opposition one by one.
this is an aggression too far. the amerikunts will finally get what’s coming to them. the kikenreich will be flattened. the amerikunt economy will go tits up. chumpo is finished. the jewu and lewk will be toast. heheheheheh
at least the more easily bribed idiots, that wants to get payed for to kill mothers and nurses, or something. you know, you cant really call maduro a “opposition” 😂
zio whore chumpo has got his marching orders from his joo masters.
south fudge voting system operating as usual
it works exactly as in “us”; only drug using idiots use it 😂 go away, idiots, and lick your child molester somewhere.
iran supported armenia.
iran sended weapons agains turks and azerbaijan.
erdogan will not accept any refugee from iran.
erdogan will capture north iran where 13m iranian azerbaijan turks live.
erdogan will create tampon area for these iranian azerbaijan turks.
azerbaijan and turkey will be neighbours by its borders soon.
north iran turkish republic.