Trump Claims 'Peace' With Iran Will Come While Threatening Further War
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The president spoke for less than four minutes and offered virtually no explanation or strategic rationale for joining Israel's war.
President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday night that the U.S. and Iran can “make peace,” hours after he approved American strikes on sensitive Iranian targets – joining Israel’s week-old offensive and torpedoing steps in recent days toward diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program.
Trump’s analysis of the situation defied the thinking among most experts, who say it is near-certain Iran will now retaliate and have far less faith in any possible agreement with the U.S. – and included threats of further bombing.
“Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier,” Trump said, flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “This cannot continue – there will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than what we have witnessed.”
Trump spoke for less than four minutes and offered virtually no explanation or strategic rationale for what is indisputably the most consequential foreign policy decision of his 5-month-old second presidential term. Beyond suggesting a possibility for de-escalation without explaining how that might happen, his remarks in parts veered into seeming confusion – “we love you, God,” Trump said at one point – and contradicted his own logic, in a way that hinted at the danger of further U.S. military entanglement.
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