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Trump’s Armada Has Now Been Assembled

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Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened the Islamic Republic of Iran over its killing of protesters, but the killing has gone on, albeit at a slower pace than on January 8 and 9, when the massacre in city streets across Iran was at its height. After the first two weeks of protests and the mass killing of protestors. Trump issued his call for the protests to continue and assured those protesters that “HELP IS ON THE WAY!”

But the killings continued, albeit at a slower pace, and instead of acting as he had threatened to do, Trump decided to declare that he had been informed that the killing had stopped and so there was no longer any need for the U.S. to take action. He declared he was satisfied that he had stopped the killing of protesters, which, of course, he had not done. Trump waxes and wanes, he says one thing and then its opposite, this mercurial and unpredictable man, and he has done so especially in his statements about Iran. He utters menacing threats, pretends the threats have worked, and therefore he no longer feels any need to make his threats a reality. The killings of protesters, though the number of victims has decreased, are continuing.

Now he has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier, and several other ships in the carrier group as well, from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East, where another carrier group headed by the USS Ford, is already stationed. Their mere presence is supposed to overawe the Iranian leaders and cause the regime to end its nuclear program, and hand over to the Americans the 400 kg. of uranium Tehran has enriched to a just-below-weapons-grade purity of 60%. “Russia, Turkey seeking US-Iran talks to stave off conflict amid Trump’s threats,” Times of Israel, January 29, 2026:

…Trump has threatened military intervention against Iran over its crackdown on protests, which rights groups say killed thousands. However, rhetoric on the issue has shifted in recent days so that the threat of military action is hanging over Tehran unless it returns to the talks on the issue of its contentious nuclear program.

A US naval strike group arrived in Middle East waters on Monday with Trump warning it was “ready, willing and able” to hit Iran “if necessary.”

The Islamic Republic’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been talking with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, but said Wednesday: “There was no contact between me and Witkoff in recent days and no request for negotiations was made from us. Our stance is clear, negotiations don’t go along with threats and talks can only take place when there are no longer menaces and excessive demands.”

Aragchi’s remarks do not suggest Iran is ready to negotiate with the US over its nuclear program. Since Trump has so often in the past made ALL-CAPS threats, and then not followed through, why should the Iranians take the latest threat seriously?

Meanwhile, the latest figures on those killed and wounded in Iran, that are being reported by both European news programs and by Iranians in exile, are 36,500 killed and 330,000 wounded.

With the arrival in the Gulf region of the USS Abraham Lincoln, adding more airplanes to those that previously arrived on the USS Gerald Ford, Trump does indeed have a powerful armada with which to harm the Islamic Republic. There are many ways Trump’s threat can be carried out against the Islamic Republic. It could take the form of airstrikes on the senior Iranian leadership. These airstrikes could take out the supreme leader, his son Mojtaba, a dozen more of the highest-ranking clerics, as well as the senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Basij, and the Iranian army. The IRGC troops could also be hit, killing thousands of them. The Americans could also launch attacks on those nuclear facilities that Iran has been trying to rebuild since the IDF devastated them in the 12-Day War last June, that also included a one-day attack by American B-2s that dropped 30,000 pound bunker-buster bombs on nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordow, and in Isfahan.

The “Armada”— consisting of the USS Gerald Ford, the USS Abraham Lincoln, and a dozen smaller vessels — could also park itself in the Persian Gulf right outside the port of Bandar Abbas, on the northern shore of the Strait of Hormuz, in order to enforce a total blockade on Iranian oil exports, and on any imports headed for Iran. This would be a devastating final blow to the Iranian economy.

Trump now has so many ways to rattle the cages, to flutter the dovecotes, to scare the supreme leader into burrowing deeper in his underground hideout, while the protesters can return in force to Iranian cities, confident of American support should more bombing be deemed necessary to stop the killings in the streets, in order to pull down the already tottering pillars of the Islamic Republic without — please note — the need for a single American soldier to be on the ground in Iran.

Comments

  1. If the Iranian regime remains in power, no matter what anyone says, including Trump, this is a defeat for the good guys. No way around this.

    • Looks like the US military strategy is to bore the islamic regime to death

  2. In the meantime, all of our supposed “allies” in the region – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Emirates – have denied US the use of their airspace in going into Iran. In other words, bombers would either have to fly in from the Gulf of Oman, or from the Mediterranean, over Israel, Syria/Jordan, Iraq and finally Iran. Increasing the expense of this war

    Once this is over, and the Iranian regime is toppled, we should remove that shield from those Arabian countries. The next Iran wouldn’t be a threat to them, nor would Israel (unless they threaten Jerusalem) and Turkey is, after all, our “ally”, right? So once this is all over, we can – and should – wrap up all our military assets in Qatar, Emirates, Bahrein and Saudi Arabia, and move them to either Pahlavi Iran itself, or Israel. Let’s drop the charade of pretending that these GCC countries are our “allies”

  3. None of us know for sure what Trump is going to do next as he is so unpredictable. I sincerely hope this regime is toppled, but I’m not sure it will. I’m a firm believer in Biblical prophecy and the Bible clearly warns us, that Iran and Turkey along with other islamic countries will form an allegiance and attack Israel. So if this regime is toppled and is replaced by a secular democratic none muslim government, such a regime would not be involved in an attack on Israel. But having said that the Bible never gives dates as to when these prophecies will be fulfilled, but we can get a clue from the Hebrew calendar.
    The Hebrew calendar is like no other, it is based solely on scripture. Every thousand years of the Hebrew calendar represents a day that God has taken to create the universe. God took six days to create the universe, and everything in it, and on the seventh day he rested. Now the date in the Hebrew calendar is 5786, so all prophecies will be fulfilled before we reach the year 6000, and then we will enter the Messianic Era which we will have a thousand years of peace. So all prophecies must be fulfilled anytime within the next 200 years.
    So there is every chance that Iran could become a secular democracy, but if it does it wont last, because it will most definitely revert back to it’s islamic roots. It’s written in Biblical prophecy.

  4. The USS Abraham Lincoln is the death star.
    It is longer than the Empire State Building is tall, 100,000 tons, You could park 6–7 Boeing 747s wingtip to wingtip on the flight deck. About the height of a 25 story office building, two nuclear reactors can stay at sea for 25 years without refueling, speeds over 30 knots, but surprisingly nimble (see the accompanying picture of it “flipping a bitch” at sea) Onboard facilities include: Hospital with operating rooms, Dental clinic, Jail, TV station, Gyms, Starbucks-style coffee bar.
    A 25-story nuclear-powered city, As long as 3 football fields , Carrying a full airbase, Guarded by destroyers and submarines, That doesn’t need fuel for decades

    The proverbial “Big Stick”

  6. We have a great military and service men and women. Putting them in harms way is a difficult and complex issue in todays world. Lots of other players and considerations before you strike. When and if we do strike Iran, we need to do it completely not politically that usually has not worked.

  7. So can somebody please explain to me why young Americans have to fight and die for countries around the World that most Americans have never heard of and if they have but cant find them on a World Map whereas young American Marines/Army etc do not fight and die for the International Borders of America but do so ALL the time for countries far far away from America.
    Regarding Iran methinks Trump was playing a situation right out of The Art of War.
    He told those old smelly evil looking turban heads he was coming and so they showed their hand by bringing out their big Guns ready to be invaded and so the US Military could see who what and where they were ALL located and then Trump pulled back letting them think they won and I think he is now preparing for what was said previously was going to happen because now America knows exactly where where and how to hit them where it hurts the most..
    Where are all those mega rich Middle Eastern Kingdoms in this situation that are protected and defended by young Americans most being NON MUSLIMS and yet we pay for the defense of a people who teaches were are the evil ones.
    Let these people and their countries sort themselves out.
    After all the Iranian Students overthrew the Shah and put those evil looking old farts in power so let me see them overthrow these old farts or is this such a different generation.
    Im sick of seeing young Americans lose their lifes for other countries, Trump said he wanted the STOP being the Policeman of the World… WTF happened here.
    I hope they overthrow these smelly evil looking old cunts, I really really do.

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