Something is brewing in the Middle East, far bigger than the current Gaza war. Despite President Trump’s rhetoric about wanting a deal with Iran so no blood will be spilled, the US President has continued to insist that Iran will not be allowed to enrich uranium. The Iranians have responded to Trump’s comments by insisting that they will continue to enrich uranium.
Earlier in the week, in the wake of Iran’s rebuttal of the US proposal, President Trump held a 40 minute phone call with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other members of Israel’s Security Cabinet. The official statement by Israel after the phone call insisted that Israel will hold off attacking Iran unless US-Iran talks fail.
Most people are wondering if Israel will actually simply wait and allow Iran to march to the bomb while they drag on talks with Trump or at the very least rebuild their air defense systems making harder for Israel and the US to attack the nuclear sites in the future.
With all of the chatter and public statements it is hard to see what is really going on. Perhaps it is not only Iran that is stalling, but President Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that “The Pentagon quietly notified Congress last week that special fuzes for rockets that Ukraine uses to shoot down Russian drones are now being allocated to U.S. Air Force units in the Middle East.” Sure enough Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the following in an ABC interview this week: “We were counting on that project — 20,000 missiles specifically designed to intercept Shaheds. It is not expensive, but it is special technology.”
If the US is transferring these missiles due to an immediate threat to US personnel in the Middle East, then the only explanation is a coming attack on Iran – either by Israel or the US or by both. Iran’s response would not only target Israel, but US bases across the region – bases that are less than adequate when it comes to drone swarms - a threat Iran can easily follow through on.
Trump knows that Iran will not give up its nuclear enrichment program, but also knows that US troops must have maximum protection in place well before the US wipes out the Iranian nuclear installations and ballistic missile factories.
This may be the real reason, the US prefers the allow Iran to drag out the talks.