U.S. Ready for Attack Order From President Trump

It’s not the news anyone wants to wake up to, but today we’ve taken a considerable step closer toward war with Iran. The Trump Administration has moved the U.S. military into place for a potential strike on Iran as early as this weekend.

President Trump warned that “bad things will happen” if Iran doesn’t cooperate. Will the President actually order an attack on Iran amid the ongoing nuclear talks?

As reported by CNN:

The US military is prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, though President Donald Trump has yet to make a final decision on whether he’ll authorize such actions, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

The White House has been briefed that the military could be ready for an attack by the weekend, after a significant buildup in recent days of air and naval assets in the Middle East, the sources said. But one source cautioned that Trump has privately argued both for and against military action and polled advisers and allies on what the best course of action is.

Top administration national security officials met Wednesday in the White House Situation Room to discuss the situation in Iran, a person familiar with the meeting said. Trump was also briefed Wednesday by special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, about their indirect talks with Iran that occurred a day earlier. It was not clear if Trump would make a decision by the weekend.

“He is spending a lot of time thinking about this,” one source said.

This one is not hypothetical. The board is being set. The U.S. is building up a serious military presence around Iran. Carrier strike groups. Fighter jets. Refueling aircraft. Cargo planes are moving hardware. It’s the kind of positioning that puts us in range and ready to strike – as soon as this weekend – should the order come down.

President Trump issued a stern warning at this morning’s Board of Peace gathering:

Now is the time for Iran to join us on a path that will complete what we’re doing. And if they join us, that’ll be great. If they don’t join us, that’ll be great, too. But it’ll be a very different path. They cannot continue to threaten the stability of the entire region. And they must make a deal or if that doesn’t happen, I maybe can understand if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen. But bad things will happen if it doesn’t.

We’re seeing a Tale of Two Irans right now. The foreign minister sounds diplomatic, saying Iran wants “a fair and balanced deal.”

Meanwhile, the Ayatollah and regime hardliners continue with the saber-rattling and the same old threats. Which is why everyone’s emotions are all over the map when it comes to this standoff with Iran.

Some of the callers to today’s show said, “You can’t negotiate with terrorists. They’ve been killing Americans through proxy groups for years.”

And that’s historically true. Iranian-backed militias killed U.S. troops in Iraq. The IRGC has American blood on its hands. This isn’t theoretical. But then you have others who called in and basically said, “We’ve seen this movie before. Twenty years of war with Iraq and Afghanistan. Are we really about to do that again?”

Frankly, that concern is not unfounded. The idea of restarting something like that is heavy. But this situation is not the same as Iraq in 2003. This isn’t about “maybe” the enemy has weapons of mass destruction. It’s no longer responsible to say that Iran wouldn’t breach any deal made and build a nuclear weapon. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned that Iran’s nuclear enrichment levels have risen well beyond civilian energy needs.

And the irony is, Iran doesn’t even use its own enriched material for power plants – the nation imports it. So insisting this is all for peaceful purposes is hard to swallow.

At the same time, Israel is watching this very closely. ACLJ Senior Counsel Jeff Ballabon, who heads up ACLJ Jerusalem, joined us in the studio, and he made a key point regarding anyone who would say let Israel deal with Iran and America should stay out:

This is the problem. We tend to see this as not necessarily existential for us, but it really kind of is. [Iran says,] “Death to America.” They are a borderline nuclear power. Yes, it was severely degraded, but they’re working with countries that are inimical to us that supply them. They have been working to get intercontinental ballistics. So they are a threat directly to our homeland as well.

And he’s right. Iran – a regime that screams, “Death to America” – getting access to its own Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) is a threat to the U.S. as well as many other countries. Shorter-range missiles threaten Israel. Intercontinental ballistic missiles can reach Washington, D.C., New York, or Los Angeles. That’s a problem.

That doesn’t mean you cheer for war. But it does mean you have to weigh out what will likely happen if a historically hostile regime that sponsors terror and kills Israelis and Americans by proxy achieves nuclear breakout capability and long-range delivery systems.

Again, the most important factor in all of this is the human factor. We don’t want to put our soldiers in harm’s way if we can avoid it, at any cost. But the people of Iran – not the regime – the men, women, and children are crying out for help. They’ve been crushed under the harsh boot of the Ayatollahs for far too long. At what point does the world stop ignoring them?

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more analysis of President Trump’s positioning of the military for a potential strike against Iran and further insight from Jeff Ballabon. We were also joined by U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Ric Grenell, who shared his unique insight into the tensions involving Iran.

Watch the full broadcast below: