In a bid to apparently ‘kick in the door in’, fighter jets from America have been tracked as heading towards the Middle East.
There are talks Donald Trump is getting ‘fed up’ and that there is now a '90 percent chance of war’ with Iran.
Experts have said that this flow of warplanes heading to the Gulf is most likely in a bid to clear the way for heavy bombers to strike the country.
But while the US military is said to be read for possible strikes as soon as this coming weekend, the president is apparently yet to make a final decision on whether to actually carry out an attack.
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Trump has made repeated demands for Iran to stop with its nuclear program, with warnings of the use of force if a deal cannot be reached.
As well as the combat aircraft, support planes like air-to-air refuellers have been tracked this week and with the various jets positioned, analysts reckon the president is preparing for a sustained military campaign.
In the 24 hours before Tuesday night (17 February), there were reportedly more than 50 US fighter jets moved to the region.
‘Anything than can fly or refuel’ seemed to be moving to the region according to an online military flight tracker.
JD Vance said Iran was failing to acknowledge Trump’s ‘red lines’ at a second round of talks on Iran’s nuclear programme on Tuesday.
A US administration source told Axios: “The boss is getting fed up. Some people around him warn him against going to war with Iran, but I think there is a 90 per cent chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks.”
The timelines do differ slightly though across reports, as some sources say the US military has sorted sufficient enough air and naval resources in the Middle East to be able to begin an attack in the coming days.
However, another unnamed source suggests that top US national security advisers were told during a White House meeting on Wednesday that all of the forces deployed to the region should be situated by mid-March.
At a press conference yesterday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t answer a question about an exact deadline the president would give to Iran to make a deal before using military action.
“Iran would be very wise to make a deal with President Trump,” she said, adding that the Trump administration ‘totally obliterated Iran’s nuclear facilities’, but insisted that ‘diplomacy’ is always the president’s ‘first option’.
Leavitt did say there was a 'little bit of progress' following Tuesday's talks but that they're 'still very far apart on some issues'.
Topics: Iran, Donald Trump
Jess Battison