Breaking News US and Israel War Against Iran

President Trump sharply intensified his threats against Iran on Wednesday, suggesting that if it did not agree to a set of demands the administration had made of the country’s leaders, he could soon mount an attack “with speed and violence.”

Mr. Trump’s threat of a second direct attack on Iran by U.S. forces in eight months came as the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, along with other naval ships, bombers and fighter jets, took up positions in the region in striking distance of the country. Mr. Trump explicitly compared the buildup to the forces he amassed near Venezuela late last year, just ahead of the operation that seized Nicolás Maduro and his wife in the middle of the night early in January.

Mr. Trump gave no specifics about the deal he was demanding, saying only that a “massive Armada” was heading toward Iran and that the country should make a deal. But U.S. and European officials say that in talks, they have put three demands in front of the Iranians: a permanent end to all enrichment of uranium, limits on the range and number of their ballistic missiles, and an end to all support for proxy groups in the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis operating in Yemen.
 
The State Department announced on Friday that it was planning to send Israel more than $6.5 billion of weapons aid that included Apache attack helicopters and combat land vehicles, bypassing a congressional review process.

The packages of four weapons systems had been under review for months by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The State Department is supposed to wait for approval from the top two members on each of those committees before announcing the aid. But in this case, the department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio circumvented that norm.

It was the third time that the Trump administration has bypassedthis part of the congressional process, called informal review, to send weapons to Israel.

Each of the four items is called a case. The largest of the cases is Apache attack helicopters, valued at $3.8 billion. A case of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, or JLTV, a newer version of Humvees, is valued at $1.98 billion. The other cases are AW119 Koala light helicopters and power packs for armored personnel carriers.

The State Department sent the cases to the two committees in Congress for informal review sometime in early fall, a congressional aide said.
 



Senior U.S. and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Istanbul on Friday for talks aimed at de-escalating the crisis between their countries, according to three current regional officials and a former one who were familiar with the planning.

The talks, they said, aim to bring together Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy; Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law; and Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, the officials said. Also expected to attend are senior officials from Turkey, Qatar and Egypt...

To calm the situation, the two officials said, Iran is willing to shut down or suspend its nuclear program, a major concession. But it would prefer a proposal that the United States made last year, to create a regional consortium to produce nuclear power.
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There was no damn uprising, the Iranians were out in the streets screaming I want my money like that NYC jeweler dude.
 
US military must have told Trump that striking Iran could end up going real bad, real quick.




Meanwhile, Netanyahu trying to sabotage any deal.

 
When President Trump warns that he may once again launch a military attack against Iran, he usually focuses on the threat of the country one day being able to build a nuclear bomb.

But for Israel, Iran’s bitter enemy, there is a far more urgent concern: an arsenal of ballistic missiles capable of striking anywhere inside of Israel.

These contrasting views about the threat posed by Iran will be near the top of the agenda when Mr. Trump meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House on Wednesday.

Mr. Netanyahu arrives in Washington as U.S. officials conduct talks with Iran over the future of its weapons program. Iran has insisted that the talks be confined to the nuclear program, and that its ballistic missile arsenal cannot be negotiated away.

The Israeli prime minister is trying to pressure Mr. Trump to get Iran to change its position by agreeing to limit its missile program. And if that does not work, he wants to convince Mr. Trump to approve another military campaign aimed at the missile sites, according to Israeli and U.S. officials.
 
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