Trump Was Offered to Resume All-Out War Against Iran — WSJ
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to continue the negotiation process with Tehran, abandoning plans to resume full-scale military operations against Iran.
In recent days, the president has held a series of consultations with Defense Secretary Pete Hegset and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Kane, during which they discussed the possibility of launching new large-scale strikes.
Discussions at the White House focused on the prospect of abandoning diplomacy and returning to an active phase of the conflict—a move that some advisers describe as “seeing it through to the end.”
The report notes that the diplomatic impasse has forced the U.S. president to seek alternative solutions to the Iranian issue.
The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff presented the president with scenarios for resuming intensive airstrikes on key Iranian military targets.
However, the U.S. president concluded that a new round of full-scale attacks could undermine current diplomatic efforts.
According to Trump, such actions would significantly reduce Washington’s chances of successfully halting Iran’s nuclear program.
The U.S. president also emphasized that he sees no obstacles to continuing negotiations with Tehran even after August 18—the deadline for concluding a nuclear agreement.
At this point, the head of state is satisfied with the practice of carrying out precision strikes in response to Iran’s violations of the “memorandum of understanding,” which has already led to localized clashes over the weekend.
Although Pentagon briefings on military scenarios are routine, recent discussions indicate a difficult search for a way out of the crisis in relations.
Some officials acknowledge that a return to open conflict would effectively amount to a public admission of the failure of the widely publicized agreement with Iran.
This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing its own sources in U.S. government circles.
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