Trump to Decide on Iran Strike Within Two Weeks

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Moomoo News Jun 20 17:45 · 22.2k Views

US President Donald Trump will decide within two weeks whether to strike Iran, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said. His latest stance signals a step back after a run of tough rhetoric, including demands for residents of Tehran to evacuate, and his early departure from this week’s Group of Seven summit in Canada to return to Washington. Bloomberg's Dan Williams reports.

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  • 00:00 Let me just ask you about
  • 00:01 the latest, which is that President Trump
  • 00:04 seems to be opening a window, a door to the diplomatic channels
  • 00:09 and says that he has not
  • 00:11 made a final decision and whether to get involved in this war militarily, essentially buying about two weeks of time before we know exactly what the US are going to do.
  • 00:21 Yes, I think you're exactly right.
  • 00:22 I don't think his initial instinct or his
  • 00:25 Basic Instinct
  • 00:27 is to go to war.
  • 00:28 In fact, he returned to power on the promise of
  • 00:31 withdrawing the United States or ending
  • 00:34 endless wars, needless wars as he would see them.
  • 00:37 So I think his first choice, his first preference would be for a diplomatic deal.
  • 00:42 Of course, his terms for a diplomatic deal so far are not terms the Iranians have accepted.
  • 00:48 And perhaps he sees the coming two weeks with sustained Israeli military pressure as the time in which Iran will do a review and perhaps decide
  • 00:56 to climb down from its refusal to give up its uranium enrichment that really is
  • 01:02 at the heart of this diplomatic dispute.
  • 01:05 Now, it's also worth remembering the phrasing within two weeks
  • 01:08 actually gives a very hazy timeline.
  • 01:10 Essentially, he can make a decision a minute from now.
  • 01:13 He can make a decision two weeks from now.
  • 01:15 And if it's two weeks from now, that takes us up against the July 4th holiday, Independence Day in the United States, perhaps a time when he would want to hold up
  • 01:23 a successful
  • 01:25 U.S.
  • 01:25 military offensive,
  • 01:27 military intervention in Iran
  • 01:30 as
  • 01:31 part of his administration success.
  • 01:33 So it's very hard to know if there's also a tactical haze here,
  • 01:37 a sense that he might be wanting to again lower the guard of the Iranians for an eventual
  • 01:42 US intervention militarily if that happens.