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Donald Trump Could Strike Iran’s Nuclear Program Again
National Security Journal ^ | 6/25/2025 | Andrew Latham

Posted on 06/25/2025 8:56:05 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

So what does Trump do now? He may toy with all three approaches. He may ramp up covert attacks. He may float the idea of talks. But ultimately, if the past is any guide, the path he’s most likely to choose is the one that gives him maximum visibility, maximum leverage, and maximum control of the narrative. That means a strike—bigger than before, louder than before, unmistakable in its intent.

Not because he’s bloodthirsty. Not because he wants regime change. But because he knows that in the high-stakes theater of international power, survival is a statement—and Iran has just made one. Trump now has to answer it.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: andrewlatham; donaldtrump; fearpornsite; iran; israel; mullahloversonfr; multiplenicks; nsj; randpaulsucks; thankscaptobvious; trump; whyilovetexas111; whywehatetrolls111
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I do think Trump will attack again. He has no choice.
1 posted on 06/25/2025 8:56:05 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

Why do you think he has no choice?


2 posted on 06/25/2025 9:01:02 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: whyilovetexas111

Why? The sites have been destroyed. If they try to reconstitute the program, which is doubtful because there is no place to safely do it, it would just be destroyed again and again and again.


3 posted on 06/25/2025 9:01:58 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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More likely Iran will wait. They will wait until Trump’s successor. They’ll hope for Gavin Newsom. Then they’ll try again.


4 posted on 06/25/2025 9:03:42 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: whyilovetexas111

Oh really? He has no choice. Beg your pardon. Please explain.


5 posted on 06/25/2025 9:04:41 AM PDT by dforest
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To: whyilovetexas111
Key Points and Summary – Following the recent Israeli strikes that failed to completely destroy Iran’s nuclear program, US President Donald Trump faces a critical decision with three potential paths.
The premise of this article goes against every statement coming from POTUS and his Cabinet advisors.

Is this guy on Bill Kristol's payroll?

6 posted on 06/25/2025 9:04:55 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: whyilovetexas111

One and done. It is over.


7 posted on 06/25/2025 9:05:20 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I agree.


8 posted on 06/25/2025 9:06:28 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: whyilovetexas111

You don’t get it....Trump wants peace. It’s up to Israel and Iran now.


9 posted on 06/25/2025 9:07:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: whyilovetexas111
What you assert does not comport with Trump's version of realpolitick, which is the new Shah shaking hands with Bebe on the South Lawn after signing formal recognition treaty.

It can be had, if Mossad will stop flapping their gums to the MSM and sapper the remaining sites, find the absent uranium, and usher in regime change.

10 posted on 06/25/2025 9:07:33 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: MinorityRepublican

bingo!

wait for a dem appeaser

the only thing that will stop them is regime change


11 posted on 06/25/2025 9:08:54 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Magnum44
Why do you think he has no choice?

The NYT, CNN, MSNBC, etc. said the strikes were ineffective so targets in Iran must be struck over and over again in perpetuity until the NYT and its sisters agree there is no longer any doubt.
12 posted on 06/25/2025 9:09:42 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
The NYT, CNN, MSNBC, etc. said...


13 posted on 06/25/2025 9:13:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: whyilovetexas111

The headline is totally misleading. Par for the course.just go watch the presser and ignore all the articles. Make up your own mind.


14 posted on 06/25/2025 9:14:14 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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the strikes were ineffective so targets in Iran must be struck over and over again....

Until Trump becomes a confirmed warmonger, MAGA withdraws their support, and Trump and his side-kick hack wannabe Vance are both impeached and removed from office. Johnson becomes President and takeover of the regime is complete.

15 posted on 06/25/2025 9:28:55 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: whyilovetexas111

LOL... so transparent. The DIA leaks a report that the facilities are not destroyed, trying to force him into a continuing war.
Now stories like this to flatter him.

He already blew it up, knocked the legs out from under the mullahs, didn’t harm normal Iranian people, and made the Israelis stop. Trump’s B-2 raid cheated the neocons out of their 15 year war.


16 posted on 06/25/2025 10:15:02 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….There’s really not much to)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Repeat as needed.


17 posted on 06/25/2025 10:15:43 AM PDT by Salman (The main deception of media is not political bias. It's the pretense they know what is going on.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

“I do think Trump will attack again. He has no choice.”

Or so the treasonous intel community wants us to believe.


18 posted on 06/25/2025 10:16:52 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….There’s really not much to)
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To: Bratch

Right. Never heard of the author or publication.


19 posted on 06/25/2025 10:18:49 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: whyilovetexas111

Starting to sound like another endless foreign war.


20 posted on 06/25/2025 10:28:04 AM PDT by McGruff
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