With the Trump administration having failed to achieve its stated objectives in its war against Iran, President Donald Trump has increasingly set his sights on a new objective: one he appears ready to authorize a “dangerous mission” to achieve at any moment, but also one that several high-ranking Trump officials think is a “resoundingly terrible idea,” Zeteo reported Saturday.
Trump explicitly called for regime change just moments after first authorizing strikes on Iran in late February, and while the president has claimed to have accomplished that goal, experts have largely dismissed the president’s assertion. Now, Trump appears ready to greenlight an operation to achieve another goal: seizing Iran’s supply of enriched uranium.
“There’s one problem, though: A lot of officials working at the senior and Cabinet levels of Trump’s government think it’s a resoundingly terrible idea (In fact, it’s hard to find any Trump officials of actual influence who, in their quieter and private moments, will say that it’s a decent idea),” Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng wrote.
“Some of these officials have been trying to subtly wean the president off of this proposal, citing the likely possibility of high numbers of U.S. troops being killed, captured, or wounded, as well as other logistical and political nightmares that could come with ordering such a dangerous mission.”
Speaking with Zeteo, one U.S. official suggested that Trump’s understanding of the demands of such an operation was wildly ill-informed.
“There’s a lot of it and it’s f—— heavy,” the official told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “It’s not the Seal Team 6 movie that Donald Trump has in his head.”
And yet, despite the feedback Trump appears to be receiving from his top officials, the president appears to be increasingly leaning towards authorizing the operation to seize Iran’s enriched uranium, which experts have long said are not enriched to levels capable of producing nuclear weapons.
Trump all but admitted to being aware of such, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week in a startling admission that seizing Iran’s enriched uranium was “more for public relations than it is for anything else.”
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