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  • Trump says it has been difficult to make a deal with Iran
  • US fully expects Iran to retaliate, official says
  • A sustained campaign carries more risk to US forces, broader Middle East

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries.

The disclosure by the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the planning, raises the stakes for the diplomacy underway between the United States and Iran.

U.S. and Iranian diplomats held talks in Oman last week in an effort to revive diplomacy over Tehran's nuclear program, after Trump amassed military forces in the region, raising fears of new military action.

U.S. officials said on Friday the Pentagon was sending an additional aircraft carrier to the Middle East, adding thousands more troops along with fighter aircraft, guided-missile destroyers and other firepower capable of waging attacks and defending against them.

Trump, speaking to U.S. troops on Friday at a base in North Carolina, said it had "been difficult to make a deal" with Iran.

"Sometimes you have to have fear. That's the only thing that really will get the situation taken care of," Trump said.

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Weeks huh? Pretty sure they said that about Iraq too

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Obama made a deal.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago
[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 36 points 15 hours ago

The President of Peace preparing for another Special Peace Operation.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 12 points 12 hours ago

Just a quick military operation Morty, in and out, just a couple weeks Morty.

[–] gukleszl4hs48ughgxhr5xgd@fedia.io 18 points 14 hours ago

Probably not at all related to the Epstein Israel connection and Netanyahu's visit, which was urgently pushed up to be weeks sooner.

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

If you are in the military, please learn lessons from Vietnam

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Didn't most of them vote for Trump? I'm kind of hoping those that voted for this are the first wave in.

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Those that work forces, yes. But we on tje left MUST start appealing to them.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 5 points 10 hours ago

If the US military were capable of self-reflection the world would be a different place.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 14 hours ago

Unfortunately only a handful of US soldiers tends to die or be injured in these wars, so most of them will likely never see anything close to the evil they're inflicting.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago

AFAIK they are pretty evenly split among the same demographic lines.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 12 hours ago

have you? vietnam was backed by soviet union and china when these states were at peak performance, and north vietnamese government was genuinely popular. iran today is not it, who's gonna stand up for them, fucking north korea? mullah's regime doesn't seem to be popular either https://gamaan.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GAMAAN-Iran-Religion-Survey-2020-English.pdf also iranian air defences were already shown to be unable of touching american aircraft last year, and nobody's talking about ground invasion

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

For US power to completely fade we need to get embroiled in a costly war that hollows our military power out. It makes sense the zionists would choose Iran for us to choke on.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

another distraction from epstein.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

If Iran still has a functional missile program, might hit an oil target in Saudi Arabia to restart peace negotiations.