Escalation Iran-Israel, Trump asks for the “unconditional surrender”

Donald Trump brings together his security team in the situation room of the White House after abandoning the Canadian G7 in advance for the Middle Eastern crisis and evaluates the hypothesis of entering the war with Israel against Iran, despite having always promised the election campaign to want to avoid new conflicts for the US.
He has already asked for an “unconditional surrender” of the Islamic Republic, after inviting everyone to evacuate Tehran and notified that “now we have complete and total control of the skies above Iran” thanks to the US military technological superiority. Also threatened Ali Khamenei: “We know exactly where the so -called ‘supreme leader’ is hidden. It is an easy target, but there is safely. We will not eliminate it (we will not kill him!), At least not for now. But we don’t want missiles to be launched against American civilians or soldiers. Our patience is about to be exhausted”.
On the table the option of launching an American attack against Iranian nuclear infrastructures, in particular the underground enrichment system of Fordow uranium, deeply buried and reachable only by the largest “bunker buster” USA: it is the Massive Ordnance penetrator, or GBU -57, and weighs so much – 13,700 kg – which can only be raised by a B -2 bomber. Israel has neither the weapon nor the bomber necessary to bring it to altitude and release it over the goal.

Israel war or even America?

Until Monday, when he was at the G7, Trump insisted on an agreement with Iran, I give him almost taken for granted. He is now showing the muscles, also strengthening the American military presence in the Middle East, with other military hunting and the nimitz carrier. But if the combination of persuasion and coercion fails, he will have to decide whether this is the war of Israel or that of America. Iranian officials have already warned that the participation of the United States in an attack in its plants would endanger any residual possibility of reaching the agreement on nuclear disarmament that Trump says he wants to still pursue. Returning from the G7, aboard the Air Force One, the Commander in Chief ventilated the possibility of sending the special correspondent Steve Witkoff or vice -president JD Vance to meet Iranian negotiators, explaining that he wants “a real end” to the Iranian nuclear question, and not just one ceased between Iran and Israel. If one of the two were to meet the Iranians, according to the New York Times, the probable interlocutor would be the Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who played a key role in the 2015 nuclear agreement with the Obama administration and knows every element of the vast Iranian nuclear complex.
But now they seem to climb the chances of the military option. Two Israeli officials told Axios that Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense apparatus continue to believe that Trump could decide to enter the war in the next few days to bomb the Fordow plant. So far, the United States have helped Israel to defend themselves from arriving missiles, but have refused to participate in offensive operations. Within a few days, however, we have gone from the line “It is not our operation” A “We now check the Iranian skies”.

The response of the congress

Trump has to deal with Congress, where a bipartisan group of deputies presented a resolution that prohibits the “American armed forces to undertake unauthorized hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran”, because “the Constitution does not allow the executive power to unilaterally commit an act of war against a country that has not attacked the United States”. The sorceress world, contrary to any American interventionism, is in revolt: in the front row the former Fox News Anchor and now influential Podcaster Tucker Carlson. At the Pentagon the opinions are divided for other reasons. Elbridge A. Colby, Undersecretary for Defense for Politics, has been claiming for some time that every military resource dedicated to wars in the Middle East is distorted by the Pacific and the containment of China.

The appeals of the G7, the words of Merz

Appeals arrive from the G7 to return to the negotiating table, as Emmanuel Macron asked, with a warning against any attempt to change regime that would lead to “chaos”. But German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has recognized that Israel “is doing dirty work for all of us” in Iran, and that “if Tehran does not go back, the complete destruction of the Iranian nuclear program is on the agenda, which Israel cannot achieve alone”. “Israel has the courage to do dirty work for all of us.” So the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed himself on Tuesday 17 June, referring to the attacks conducted by Israel against Iranian objectives. Speaking to the Zdf television network on the sidelines of the top of the G7, Merz said that the Iranian regime “brought death and destruction in the world” and that, without the Israeli intervention, “perhaps we would have continued to undergo the terrorism of this regime for months or years, which perhaps would even have been able to equip itself with the atomic weapon”.