Will Trump strike nuclear sites again as Iran engages ‘cognitive warfare’?
Summary
President Donald Trump has alternated between threatening further action against Iran and saying talks are making progress, after U.S. forces struck Iranian air-defence systems on Qeshm Island. The article reports that Iran is preparing communities near nuclear sites for possible attacks, while evidence about any U.S. plan to strike those sites remains attributed to media reports and unnamed sources.Key Facts
- Trump said Thursday that the United States might have to “destroy” the rest of Iran and that people would soon know whether he would act.
- Trump said Friday that U.S. forces carried out what he called “minor strikes” against Iranian air-defence systems on Qeshm Island.
- Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported that two missiles struck the Suza area of Qeshm Island.
- Trump said the U.S. administration was talking with Iranian representatives and that it had made progress.
- Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari rejected online claims that U.S.-Iran negotiations had failed.
- Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported that Iran’s army said its air defences intercepted and destroyed a U.S. MQ-9 drone over Qeshm Island.
- The Times reported that Iran was distributing iodine tablets near nuclear facilities and that a U.S. strike on the Pickaxe Mountain site was reportedly under serious consideration.
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