The IDF is ready to strike Iran if US President Donald Trump asks it to join the American air force in an operation after the November 3 midterm elections, but a wide cloud of uncertainty is hovering over the situation, The Jerusalem Post understands.
Washington’s Iran war: Three tracks, one deadlock, and a revolution that never forgot 1953
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Six months into a war that began on 28 February 2026, with strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Washington has stopped choosing between diplomacy, economic siege, and military force. It runs all three at once. The Trump administration frames this as a sequential strategy. It is not. Diplomacy has collapsed twice.
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Six months into a war that began on 28 February 2026, with strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Washington has stopped choosing between diplomacy, economic siege, and military force. It runs all three at once. The Trump administration frames this as a sequential strategy. I…
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