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US President Donald Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the American Capitol rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as 47th President of the United States.
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Five months ago, President Donald Trump promised to be a peacemaker and a unifying. Tonight, the United States attack Iran, hitting three nuclear sites in Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.
In his inauguration speech On January 20, 2025, Trump told the Americans: “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we finish – and perhaps above all, the wars in which we never enter.”
He called his most proud inheritance that of a “Peacemaker and a unifier.” Now this inheritance is a meticulous examination.
The United States has launched a direct military strike on Iran for the first time since the War of Israel-Iran earlier this month.
Trump confirmed the action in a Post social post, Saying that the operation abandoned a “full load of bombs on the main site, Fordow”.
The Iranian state media reported losses and damage to the infrastructure but did not immediately confirm the extent of the attack, Reuters reported.
Saturday’s operation marks a strong break in Trump’s previous promises to keep the United States out of the war. The decision is also a net turn of its campaign in 2024 promising to “prevent the Second World War” and at the end of “Chaos in the Middle East”.
“I will stop chaos in the Middle East, and I will prevent the Second World War. You are very close to the World War, you are very close, and we have people who are not the right people to manage this. They are largely incompetent,” Trump told the supporters of a Pittsburgh rally in November of last year.
Trump has already been expressed by the preventing Iran from reaching nuclear capacities. In a speech on last year’s poll, he said that Iran “could simply not have a nuclear weapon”.
This position, although consistent, had been associated with wishes to avoid war. “I want peace in the Middle East. I want peace. I made the Abraham agreements. I want peace in the Middle East,” said Trump during a rally in Greensboro in October of last year.
A week later Israel launched its attack on IranThe latest American strike puts Washington in direct conflict with Tehran. This decision marks a clear change of only 48 hours ago, when Trump suggested that the United States will wait “two weeks” to see if the conflict between Israel and Iran could be resolved diplomatically.
“Based on the fact that there is substantial chances of negotiations which may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will decide or not in the next two weeks,” Trump said in a statement published by the White House on Thursday.
However, concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions are not new. Trump has long cited its 2018 withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement, officially known as the Complete Complete Action Plan (JCPOA), as proof of its difficult position in Tehran. During a town hall in Georgia in October 2024, He called the release of the “greatest thing I did” agreement and credited this decision to open the way to Abraham agreements.
The American bombs now falling on Iranian soil, the promises of Trump’s peace are under renewed control. While Washington deepens a conflict which he once sought to avoid, questions are going up on what comes then – and that marks the end of diplomacy or the beginning of something bigger.
