Iran is prepared for a possible ground invasion by U.S. troops, the country’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday, as the war launched by the U.S. and Israel continues to escalate.
Araghchi told NBC News that Iran is ready to counter American forces after U.S. President Donald Trump refused to rule out the possibility of boots on the ground earlier this week
“We are waiting for them,” Araghchi said. “Because we are confident that we can confront them, and that would be a big disaster for them.”The military campaign, which is ongoing, prompted a wave of retaliatory strikes from Iran across the Middle East, reportedly hitting both U.S. military bases and civilian sites in Gulf states, killing dozens of people, including six U.S. service members.
The Trump Administration has signaled that the military campaign is likely to be more expansive than initially laid out.
Trump told the Daily Mail on Sunday that the campaign could last around four weeks, even as the war appears to be unpopular with most Americans and as foreign citizens stranded in the Middle East scramble to leave the region.
And U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said during a Thursday briefing that “the amount of firepower over Iran and over Tehran is about to surge dramatically.” FULL REPORT
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The war will reveal whether or not there is resolve on the part of the US/Israeli to commit to a ground war and finish what they started. Odds are no. Anything less than a friendly regime change is a victory for Iran. It will expose the true nature of what to expect and allow for future preparations. Either the US/Israel finishes the job or look incompetent wasting valuable resources not accomplishing basically anything in the process.
Epstein back on the front pages and now talk of American boots on the ground. Remembering Beirut in '83 - American boots on the ground did not work.
The $64,000 question - will POTUS send in ground troops? The bone of contention since Korea and amplified in Vietnam. Another Asian land war? OMG! Since Korea the US Military, abused draft or no draft. Saddest moment - Project 100,000 (1966), packing up barely functional 19 yo Ohio farm boys and sending them to Vietnam to die.
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