The US President started the week with a declaration that he was “about an hour away from making the decision” to resume attacks on Iran. Since then Donald Trump has swung between hopes for a permanent ceasefire and threats of military escalation.
Trump’s confused messaging has also been accompanied by a renewed rush of diplomacy, with Iran stating Thursday it had received and was analyzing Washington’s answer to Tehran’s latest ceasefire proposal. Trump, for his part, seems to hint at a preference for a third choice: a lengthy, grinding war.
On Thursday, he shared a New York Post op-ed by Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a pro-Israel research tank that has long backed military action against Tehran.
An article titled ‘Here’s how to crush Tehran in three moves’ called on the US to “sustain blockade and accompanying economic warfare”, “remake the world in America’s energy dominance image” and “order the US military to forge a path through the Strait of Hormuz to restore freedom of navigation on our terms, not Tehran’s. The post came after US media widely reported that Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spat about the future of the Iran war during a phone discussion on Tuesday.
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