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U.S. Warns Gulf of Possible Short, Intense Renewal of Iran War After Midterms
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Updated Oct. 27, 2026 10:48 pm ET | Summer Said , Shelby Holliday , Benoit Faucon and Anat Peled

Posted on 10/27/2026 10:31:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

There are new signs that the American and Israeli militaries are preparing a potential wave of strikes to muscle Tehran to the negotiating table

DUBAI—The U.S. has told several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign after the U.S. midterm elections, people briefed on the conversations said.

The communications through diplomatic and military channels are among a growing number of indications that the U.S. and Israel are readying to launch a new round of heavy combat operations against Iran, risking a major escalation in hopes of degrading Tehran’s strength and pushing it toward negotiations. 

The U.S. military is sending an additional Patriot system to Israel from Texas to beef up its missile defenses in the country, according to flight tracking data and two officials with knowledge of the movement. The U.S. has also moved troops off bases in the Middle East where they were vulnerable in preparation for an escalation, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

U.S. forces in the region have been restocking their munitions, and bomber aircraft and jet fighters are preparing for strikes, some of the officials said. An additional aircraft carrier strike group and Marine expeditionary unit are also poised to join an armada of roughly 20 other warships operating in the Middle East next month, although some ships could rotate out.

President Trump hasn’t decided to go ahead but is leaning toward a large postelection attack that could target Iranian infrastructure and nuclear sites, people familiar with his thinking said.

The alternative would be to try to cut a deal. Diplomatic efforts by regional mediators continued but had yet to bear fruit.

“We may...”


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Two weeks to flatten the curve.
1 posted on 10/27/2026 10:31:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It won’t last more than four days at most.


2 posted on 10/27/2026 10:32:43 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Two weeks to flatten Iran


3 posted on 10/27/2026 10:41:37 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (A sinner saved by Jesus)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

Probably don’t have enough bombs and missiles to go past 3 days.


4 posted on 10/27/2026 10:42:25 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (A sinner saved by Jesus)
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To: SPDSHDW

Light those m***********s up!


5 posted on 10/27/2026 10:56:26 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Broadcasting the attack will be after the election likely means it will happen before the election.


6 posted on 10/27/2026 11:27:04 PM PDT by Bobalu (Regarding life extension.. To live this life forever would be no prize.. we are meant to move on..)
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To: Bobalu

No because the enemy would assume we are lying! So if we as we announced it will be a surprise! Ok I have no idea


7 posted on 10/28/2026 12:12:58 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who’s the U. S.?

LBJ the 2nd ?


8 posted on 10/28/2026 12:38:03 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesied set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Will be done after a few weeks. When leftists and democraps have easily won running on nothing like it was 2006. But dont worry, its everyone elses fault.


9 posted on 10/28/2026 1:04:55 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The U.S. military HAS to know where Iran’s military command orders originate.

To win a war, you have to destroy both the ability to fight and the enemy’s will to keep fighting.

This is similar to the WWII Battle of Iwo Jima. We are dealing with murderous fanatics who must be wiped off the face of the Earth.

Leave nothing standing and nobody alive where the orders are being given. Do not worry about who, if anyone, is left alive to surrender.


10 posted on 10/28/2026 1:23:01 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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Re: "The U.S. and Israel are readying to launch a new round of heavy combat operations against Iran, risking a major escalation in hopes of degrading Tehran's strength and pushing it toward negotiations."

Pathetic.

Iran will agree to anything for a cease fire and will break EVERY promise they make.

And, Iran now has formal agreements with China and Russia, which it did not have before the March 2026 War started.

11 posted on 10/28/2026 1:41:57 AM PDT by zeestephen (2024 Trump Landslide - Kamala Harris Lost By 230,000 Votes In WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

I live close to a combat installation. Air assets are training day and night.


12 posted on 10/28/2026 1:57:56 AM PDT by kaintucky
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
A side note to the WSJ article's FOUR writers — “Summer Said , Shelby Holliday , Benoit Faucon and Anat Peled” — in the same week that “AI” news suggests news articles will soon not require those credited writers....
13 posted on 10/28/2026 2:06:12 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Gnome1949
This is similar to the WWII Battle of Iwo Jima

this statement is ridiculous!

Iran and Iraq fought each other to a WWI chemical warefare standstill for ten years!

We rolled throuhh Iraqs million man army like a hot knife through butter in 100 hours in 91' and conquered the country, in 2003, in a couple of weeks.

It's a shame for the Iranian people that they will probably have no power, water, refineries, fuel depots, factories, cell comms, TV or radio transmitters, bridges, overpasses, ports, pipelines, islands, or oilfields when it's over.

Sadly, they'll still have plenry of mosques where they can go flagellate and cut themselves for Allah.


14 posted on 10/28/2026 2:07:16 AM PDT by Theophilus (Pass SAVE Act)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I don't care at all about more rearranging of rocks in Iran.
RTX and the rest of the defense contractors have contracts for what our military needs by now.

End this BS with a real counter revolution with an installed pro America regime with a Republican form of government and NO religious governmental establishment...

Like before Jimah (spit) Cahtah.

15 posted on 10/28/2026 2:16:38 AM PDT by trfree98 (Daniel 12:4... It ain't over 'til its over.)
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To: trfree98
No negotiation at all.

Take their country, remove the demonic chains then give it back to perfectly capable non-demonic Persians.

After 50 years of putting up with this evil crap we've earned the right to impose regime eradication then reformation. With no dead US soldiers insofar as possible.

Can someone get the 3-letter people to do their jobs!?!

16 posted on 10/28/2026 2:29:31 AM PDT by trfree98 (Daniel 12:4... It ain't over 'til its over.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

People with exactly the same philosophy and hatred for the US are here in our country right now. How about we get rid of them? Yeah, I know. We will make Iran a fantasy land and all the US haters will magically return.


17 posted on 10/28/2026 2:38:05 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: All

Try to factor in......Iranian and American strategic thinking on war diverge sharply
<><>in their core philosophy,
<><>definition of victory,
<><>and asymmetric methods.

The US republic traditionally relies on
<><>conventional dominance,
<><>technological superiority,
<><>and decisive battlefield victories.

Muslim Iran views warfare through a lens of
<><>survival,
<><>prolonged attrition,
<><>and indirect regional influence.


18 posted on 10/28/2026 2:45:51 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands. " (Psalm 19:1))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Minor problem. The Gulf State Arabs don’t want another war with Iran.


19 posted on 10/28/2026 3:20:18 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: Gnome1949

Iran does not, by design, have a central command structure. They have a decentralized command structure scattered across a country 2.5 times the size of Texas.


20 posted on 10/28/2026 3:35:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of the Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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