Trump curious why Iran has not 'capitulated' amid US military buildup, says Witkoff - Reuters

Trump curious why Iran has not 'capitulated' amid US military buildup, says Witkoff  Reuters

Trump Weighs Initial Limited Strike to Force Iran Into Nuclear Deal - The Wall Street Journal

Trump Weighs Initial Limited Strike to Force Iran Into Nuclear Deal  The Wall Street Journal

Will the US go to war with Iran? - The Times

Will the US go to war with Iran?  The Times

Iran-US Tensions highlights: President Pezeshkian says ‘will not bow our heads’ amid US military buildup

Iran-US Tensions highlights: Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said a draft counterproposal could be ready within the next two to three days as Donald Trump signalled he is considering limited military strikes.

Khamenei takes steps to ensure succession amid rising fears of US strikes, assassination - NYT

Iran’s supreme leader has appointed his close ally, Ali Larijani, as the country’s de facto leader, sidelining the elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian.

Iran and US views on sanctions relief differ, senior Iranian official says

Iran and the United States have differing views over the scope and mechanism to lift sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday, adding that new talks were planned in early March. The official said Tehran could seriously consider a combination of exporting part […]

US envoy Steve Witkoff says Trump questioning why Iran has not ‘capitulated’

US envoy Steve Witkoff said on Saturday that President Donald Trump is questioning why Iran has not “capitulated” in the face of Washington’s military build-up aimed at pressuring them into a nuclear deal. The United States and Iran this week resumed Oman-mediated talks in Geneva aimed at averting the possibility of military action, after Washington dispatched two aircraft carriers, jets and weaponry to the region to back its warnings. In a Fox News interview with Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara...

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US military buildup in Middle East as tensions with Iran rise

Iran and the United States are sliding rapidly towards military conflict as hopes fade for a diplomatic solution to their standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program, officials on both sides and diplomats across the Gulf and Europe say. Iran’s Gulf neighbours and its enemy Israel now consider a conflict to be more likely than a settlement, […]

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US forces build up in Middle East ahead of potential strikes against Iran

Trump said yesterday he is “considering” a limited strike on Iran if negotiations fail to yield a replacement for the nuclear deal with Tehran that he tore up during his first term in office.

Critical Hours in the Middle East: Why an attack on Iran is far riskier than the arrest of Maduro

Trump had in mind a copy-paste operation like the one in Venezuela; however, in Iran the situation is very different. Tehran has ways to retaliate, possesses regional partners ready to strike, the regime is deeply entrenched, and it knows how to play the economic damage card effectively The post Critical Hours in the Middle East: Why an attack on Iran is far riskier than the arrest of Maduro appeared first on ProtoThema English.

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Analysts warn war looks more likely than a US-Iran deal as nuclear deadline approaches

Analysts quoted by international media warned that, in the current phase of nuclear diplomacy, the risk of a military escalation between Iran and the United States now appears higher than the prospect of a deal, citing what they describe as Tehran’s miscalculation about Washington’s intentions and its own deterrent leverage.