Trump says an Iran attack decision likely ‘over the next, probably 10 days’
By Steven Nelson
Published Feb. 19, 2026
Updated Feb. 19, 2026, 12:37 p.m. ET
President Trump says he’s prepared to decide whether to attack Iran within the next 10 days — after deploying a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East.
“We may have to take it a step further, or we may not. Maybe we’re going to make a deal. You are going to be finding out over the next, probably, 10 days,” Trump said Thursday at a meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington.
Trump said that his airstrikes this past June on three Iranian nuclear facilities helped bring stability to the region — as US-partnered Arab nations fear a second strike could have the opposite effect.
“It totally decimated the nuclear potential, and when it did, when it decimated that, all of a sudden we had peace in the Middle East, because there was a black cloud hanging over the Middle East. And if that wasn’t done, that cloud would have been there,” said the president.
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