Donald Trump launched America’s new war against Iran from his Mar-a-Lago resort in the middle of the Florida night, casting it as a decisive bid to tackle Tehran in a way no US president had done in almost half a century.
The “massive and ongoing operation”, Trump said in an eight-minute video on social media, was aimed at stopping “this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America”.
He claimed the primary goal was to eliminate Iran’s capacity to develop a nuclear weapon and develop long-range missiles. But Trump piled on other aims as well: the annihilation of Iran’s Navy, the neutralisation of its regional proxies, and ultimately regime change.
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