As United States President Donald Trump Made An Early Exit from The Group of Seven Summit in Canada On Tuesday, He Toled Reporters He Believed Iran Was “Vary Close” to building nuclear Weapons.
This contradicted US Intelligence Reports. ON March 25Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, Aambiguously Told Member of The Us Congress That Iran was not Moving Towards Nuclear Weapons Building Building.
“The IC [intelligence community] Continue to Assess that will be not bilding to nuclear weapon and supreme leader [Ali] Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons programme I have suspended in 2003, ”She Said, Referring to a Collection of Us Spy Agencies That Collaborate To Make Such Assessments.
Trump’s Latest Remarks Also Mark A Shift from His Position on Iran Last Month When He Said The Us And Iran were Close to securing a deal on Iran’s Nuclear Program.
Even Over The Course of The Iran-Israel Conflictwhich was in its seventh day on thursday, Trump’s Position on Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities and Whether The Us Is Prepared To Get Involved With ITS Conflict With Israel Has Changed.
Shortly After Israel Attacked Iranian Nuclear Facilities and Military Sites On Friday, Trump Administration Officials Stated That the Us was not Involved.
Since since, However, Trump you indicated that the us might scholarship in Israel’s Conflict with Iran, Leaving Allies and Adversaries Guessing What the Next Action Will Be. In particular, Israel Wants The US To Supply “Bunker Buster“Bombs, which would enables iTS forces to penetrate the Nuclear FacilityLocated Deep Inside Mountain in Northwest Iran.
On Wednesday, Trump Refused to Say Whether The Us Would Join The Conflict.
“I May do it. I May not do it. I Mean, Nobody Knows What i’m Going To do,” He Told Reporters outside The White House.
Later, Trump Said Iranian Officials Wanted to visit Washington for Talks. He Said It is “A Little Late” for Such Talks But “We May Do That.”
Trump’s Wavering Stance On Iran Has Sparked Serious Concerns for Many in His Maga Base, Named After His Campaign Slogan, Make America Great Again. THOSE CONCERNED SUPPORTS BELIEVE US INVOLVEMENT IN A FRESH WAR GOES AGAINST TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN PROMISE OF PUSTING AMERICA First and OF STAYING OUT OF CONFLICTS INVOLING OTHERS.
Here is How Trump’s Position has Changed Since I’ve Moved Back Into The White House in January:
February: Trump ‘Restores Maximum Pressure’ on Iran
ON FEBRY 4, THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNDED THAT TRUMP HAD SIGNED A NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENT MEMORANDUM RESTORING “Maximum Pressure“On Tehran Aimed at” Denying Iran All Paths to A Nuclear Weapon, and Countering Iran’s Malign Influence Abroad. “
Trump Made Clear That He was reluctant to thread force – Angling insert for a diplomatic solution via Talks.
While the Memorandum Lacked details on What “Maximum Pressure” Would Entail And Hinted That Measures Could Be Tough, Trump Also Said He was “Torn” and “Unhappy” About signing it and added that hey Hoped All ”.
May 15: Trump Says The Us and Iran are close to a nuclear deal
During His Gulf Tour Last Month, Trump’s Diplomatic Stance Appeared to Be Holding. Trump Said The Us had engagement in “Vray Sery Negotiations with Iran for Long-Term Peace.” I have added that washington and tehran haad “Sort of” AgreeD to the term of a nuclear deal.
“We’re getting close to maybe do a deal. [are] Two Steps to Doing This: There is a Vary, Vry Nice Step, and there is the violent step, but i Don’t Want To do It The Second Way, ”He Said.
May 17: Trump Warns Iran Over Houthi Attacks
Just Two Days After Claiming To Be Close To Aal With Iran On Nuclear Weapons, Trump Went On The Attack On Social Media: “Let Nobody Be Foled! The Hundreds of Attacks Being Made by Houthi, The Sinister Mobsters and Thugs Based In Yemen, Who Are Hated by The Yemeni People, All EMANATE FROM, AND ARE CREATED BY, Iran, ”Trump Wrote.
Tensions had been mounting for months as the Iran Houthis In Yemen Launched Attacks on Israeli-Linked Shipping in the Red Sea and On Israel Itself Over Israel’s War on Gaza.
May 28: Trump Warns Netanyahu Against Iran Attack
On May 28, Trump Seemed to have reverse this Stance Again, However, When He Said He Had Told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu TO HOLD OFF On Any Strike On Iran Becouse It “Would Be Inapproprot To Do Right Now Best [diplomatic] solution [on Iran’s nuclear status]”
June 13: Trump Administration Says us ‘not Involved’ in Iran Attacks
After Israel Attacked Iran on friday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Release from Statement, Saying: “Tonight, Israel Took Unilateral Action Against Iran. We Are Not Involved in Strikes Against Iran and Our Top Priority Is Protection American Forces in The Region.”
Rubio Added: “Let Me Be Clear: Iran Should Not Target US Interests or Personnel.”
June 17: Trump Calls for Iran’s Surrender, Calls Khamenei An ‘Easy Target’
On Tuesday, Trump’s Anti-Iran Rhetoric Switched Gears Again. I have posted on His Truth Social Platform in reference to Iran: “Unconditional surrender!”
In Another Post, He Wrote of Khamenei: “We Know Exactly where the so-rash ‘supreme leader’ is hiding. American Soldiers.
Trump awad reporters he wted to real end to the issue of whether Iran is conveloping nuclear Weapons, which tehran denies, rather Than just a Ceasefire Between Israel and Iran.
The White House releases Statement Saying Trump you have “Never Wavered in His Stance that Iran Cannot Be Allow To have a nuclear weapon.” The Statement listed instances from 2011 Through Tuesday When Trump Said Iran Should Not Nuclear Weapons.
June 18: ‘I May do it. I may not ‘
On Wednesday, Trump Told Reporters Asking about the US COUred Become Involved in the Iran-Israel Conflict: “I May do it. I May not do it.
How have they replied?
Iran have insisted its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and for civilian Purpose, citing a religious edict issued by Khamenei In The Early 2000s, Banning the Production of Weapons by saying it is forbidden in Islam.
On Wednesday, Khamenei Rejected Trump’s Calls for Surrender in His First Televished Message Since Israel Began Its Attacks On Iran. “Any US Military Intervention Will Undoubtedly Be Accompanied by irreparable Damage,” Khamenei Said.
Iran have moved to uranium enrichment of 60 percent nuclear facilities, close to the 90 percent enriches needed to make nuclear Weapons.
However, Like Us Intelligence Reports, The United Nuclear Watchdog Also Said It Has Found No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Production. “We Did Not Have Any Proof of A Systematic Effort To Move Indo A Nuclear Weapon,” Said Rafael Grossi, General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
What Stance Did Trump Take On Iran and Nuclear Weapons During His First Term?
Tensions were Generally high Between Iran and Trump During the Us President’s First Term:
2018-2019: Tensions After Trump’s Withdrawal from Nuclear Deal
In 2018, Trump Announce the US Withdrawal from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a nuclear from Signed Between Iran and a Group of Countries Led by the us in 2015. The Group Also consisting of the European Union, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom.
The Deal Banned Uranium enrichment at Fordow and Allowed Only Peaceful Development of Nuclear Technology in Iran for Energy Production In Return for The Complete Lifting of Sanctions. Iran Agree to Refrain from Any Uranium enrichment and Research into uranium enrichment at fordow for 15 years. It also agreed not to Keep Any Nuclear Material There But to “Convert The Fordow facility into nuclear, Physics and Technology Center.”
But Tensions have Been Mounting Between Iran and the US Since The
In December 2019, A Rocket Attack on Anraqi Military Base Killed A US Contractor and Siteal Us Service Member Members Alongsis Iraqi Personnel. US Officials Blamed The Iran-Backed Iraqi Armed Group Kataib Hezbollah for the Attack.
In the Same Month, The US Military Retaliated by Striking Locations Belonging to Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq and Syria.
2020: The Killing of Soleimani and its Aftermath
On January 3, 2020, The USSassinated Qassem Soleimani, The Head of Iran’s Elite Quds Force, in a Drone Strike in Baghdad. The White House Said This was done to determine Iranian Attack plans as it accused Soleimani of “Activeley Developing Plans to Attack American Diplomats and Service Members in Iraq and Thropoughout The Region”.
On January 9, 2020, Trump Said Soleimani Had Been Killed “Because they were looking to blow up oil embassy” in Baghdad.
The Us Also Threatened to Hit Iranian Sites Hard If Iran Attacked the US OR ITS ASSETS. The US Has 19 Military Sites In The Middle East, At Which 40,000 to 50,000 Soldiers are Stationed.
IN MARCH 2020, THREE SOLDIERS BELONGING TO A US-LED COALITION WERE Killed In A Rocket Attack at The Taji Military Base Housing Us and Coalition Troops Near Baghdad. The Us reimeded to New Set of Sanctions on Iran.
On June 29, 2020, Tehran Issued An Arrest Warrant for Trump and Several of His Aides Over Soleimani’s Killing.
