Fort Bragg, North Carolina –, 14 February (H.S.): President Donald Trump proclaimed a seismic shift in U.S. policy toward Iran on Friday, declaring that the ouster of the Islamic Republic's 47-year clerical autocracy would be the best thing that could happen, subordinating nuclear restraint to wholesale political extirpation while confirming the USS Gerald R. Ford's redeployment from the Caribbean to amplify the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf theater.
Fresh from communing with paratroopers at this storied Army installation, Trump—flanked by Wednesday's conclave with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who advocates ballistic missile neutering and proxy divestment (Hamas, Hezbollah)—dismissed Tehran's atomic curtailment as the least of the mission post-June 2025's 12-day Israel-U.S. blitz crippling Natanz, Fordow, and Parchin amid 60% uranium purity thresholds verging weapons-grade.
For 47 years, they've been talking and talking and talking, he inveighed to reporters, post-Secretary Marco Rubio's January senatorial caveat deeming Iranian decapitation far more complex than January 3's audacious Maduro snatch via Operation Absolute Resolve.
Secretary Rubio underscored the ayatollahs' entrenched sinews vis-à-vis Caracas's neophyte tyranny, presaging meticulous strategems should opportunity arise.
The supertypes' convergence—heralded sans Oman-Qatar indirects fruition despite Tehran's security grandee's shuttle—portends weeks' transit for Ford's 5,000 souls doubling sortie potency atop Lincoln's drone interdict and Hormuz contretemps last week; Trump dangles right deal forestalling traumatic reprise, even as Gulf sheikdoms portend Gaza-echoing cataclysm and Chehelom dirges burgeon Thursday for protest pogrom's myriad martyrs, intoning pre-1979 Ey Iran in Razavi Khorasan.
Trump's muscularity jars hemispheric doctrinal shibboleths—Ford's October 2025 Mediterranean-Caribbean perambulations prelude to Venezuela—yet U.S. Southern Command vows undiluted narco-fascist countermeasures; Navy Adm. Daryl Caudle laments the June 2025 behemoth's octet-month odyssey imperiling spousal rites, sepulchers, progeny, and drydock diurnals akin USS Dwight D. Eisenhower's Houthi perdition, advocating littoral frigates o'er leviathans.
Tehran demurs peaceful intent sans IAEA plenary post-JCPOA obviation, fortifying Parchin 2 amid reconstitution portending fresh preemption.
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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar
