The US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—announced with characteristic bravado by President Donald Trump—was framed as a “highly successful” operation. But beneath the surface of military theater, the strike carries deeper messages and calculated signals. Timing, tone, and restraint reveal more than the explosions themselves. ...
With the statements of Donald “Birthday Boy” Trump reaching a boiling point about war against Iran, the US’ public and private moves are showing an almost obvious inclination to launching a full-scale war of the Islamic Republic. However, only a few years before taking his first oath of inauguration in 2016, ...
