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After canceling negotiations with the U.S. scheduled for Sunday, Tehran has signaled it is willing to talk.
Retired Colonel Rob Maness, founder and chairman of GatorPAC, analyzes President Donald Trump’s strategy for negotiations with Iran. “I think you’re going to see that the President of the United States is going to keep his promise to MAGA and not put Americans into another war using our offensive capability,
Reports of the latest missile attacks on Israel circulated on Iranian state media hours after Israel said it had attacked a media building in Tehran.
There are growing tensions in the conservative movement over whether President Donald Trump should agree to a new nuclear deal with Iran or use force against it.
The president had asked Israel to hold off. Now he’s scrambling to make a deal in negotiations that have become even more complex.
In recent months, however, Israel talked about a unique window of opportunity to strike Iranian facilities: Iran’s air defences had been damaged by Israeli attacks last year and its proxies in the region, part of what Tehran calls the Axis of Resistance, had been degraded, including Hezbollah.
Trump swept into office hoping to be a peacemaker. Five months in, a new conflict is roiling the Middle East, with no end in sight to the war in Ukraine.
Israel’s campaign, militarily and rhetorically, has quickly evolved beyond its initial targets. Over the weekend, it hit Iran’s energy facilities, including a gas depot and an oil refinery, triggering huge fires and spewing smoke across the sprawling capital of about ten million people.
President Donald Trump in about eight hours went from suggesting a nuclear deal remained “achievable” to urging Tehran’s 9.5 million residents to flee for their lives