Trump: U.S. Will Lead Attack Against Iran ‘Very Willingly’ If Talks Fail

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Trump: U.S. Will Lead Attack Against Iran ‘Very Willingly’ If Talks Fail

BREITBART
by Joel B. Pollak
25 Apr 2025



President Donald Trump told Time magazine in an interview published Friday that he will “very willingly” lead the U.S. into attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities if the regime does not make a deal to stop its program.

Trump was, as usual, bullish about the prospects of making a deal and avoiding war, especially given the economic pressure he has restored on the regime. He added that he had not stopped Israel from attacking Iran on its own, but had not made it “comfortable” for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make that choice. Asked if Netanyahu would “drag” the U.S. into war, Trump said the U.S. would lead the effort:

I think that we’re going to make a deal with Iran. I think we’re going to make a deal with Iran. Nobody else could do that.

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I didn’t stop [Israel]. But I didn’t make it comfortable for them, because I think we can make a deal without the attack. I hope we can. It’s possible we’ll have to attack because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. But I didn’t make it comfortable for them, but I didn’t say no. Ultimately I was going to leave that choice to [Israel], but I said I would much prefer a deal than bombs being dropped.

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You asked if [Netanyahu]’d drag me in, like I’d go in unwillingly. No, I may go in very willingly if we can’t get a deal. If we don’t make a deal, I’ll be leading the pack.

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https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/04/25/trump-u-s-will-lead-attack-against-iran-very-willingly-if-talks-fail/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Will Congress follow the Constitution to formally declare war?  That provision in the US Constitution was intended to prevent Executive Officers from engaging in discretionary wars of foreign adventure.

If America is to move forward, we need to extricate ourselves from the Middle East, and re-focus on developing economies in the Western Hemisphere and in Africa.

The Middle East is a bottomless pit of failed imperial ambitions and sectarian conflicts.

Iran should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.  What does a nation blessed with Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Hydro-Electric power need with nuclear power? ... unless its cover for a nuclear weapons program.

Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons may be an outcome of the 2000s' Neo-con Middle East policy of regime change in Iraq.  Both North Korea and Iran have calculated that the US will not invade nations with nuclear weapons.