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Trump to decide on Iran action ‘within two weeks’

President Donald Trump is expected to decide within two weeks whether the US will intervene in the intensifying Israel-Iran conflict, as Israel and Iran trade missile and drone attacks with no clear end in sight.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that while Trump remains open to a diplomatic resolution, his administration’s top priority is preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“The president is always interested in a diplomatic solution …he is a peacemaker in chief. He is the ‘peace through strength’ president. And so if there’s a chance for diplomacy, the president’s always going to grab it,” Leavitt said. “But he’s not afraid to use strength as well, I will add.”

Talks between Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s foreign minister suggest backchannel negotiations may be underway, but Trump has also floated more aggressive rhetoric, including veiled threats against Iran’s leadership and demands for unconditional surrender.

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16 COMMENTS

  1. Two weeks could be in the next five minutes
    Trump could be bleating out of the same choir book
    As before
    Perpetuating the illusion of the prospect for peace
    While preparing for a first strike
    Trump is all bought and paid for
    Now it is the time to pay the piper

  2. The Zionist lobby get what they paid for. Trump will attack and sooner or later, he will face the consequences of that action, back home. What form that might take, is anyone’s guess.

  3. So, imminently then.
    Little bully has picked a fight, and the victim is fighting back. So little bully is running to big bully brothers for help.

    Is big bully gonna let 14 more days pass of missile attacks on it’s little brother?

  4. I’m out in the wops and don’t have any sound nor picture quality with munted internet but Netanyahu’s and the various generals’ body language and facial expressions say it all https://english.masirahtv.net/post/48455/The-Eighth-Decade-S-Curse-Iran-S-Full-Retribution-Takes-Shape

    Big bully really needs to hasten to little bully’s aid because the Iranian missiles’ flight time is only 10 to 12 minutes – idiot Trump cannot afford to wait two weeks.

  5. Third hospital in Tehran deliberately targeted in a week of Israeli aggression
    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/20/750005/third-hospital-tehran-deliberately-targeted-in-week-israeli-aggression
    Do We hear anything about this from the Western Press?
    All We hear about is the collateral damage inflicted upon a Hospital in the Jewish State because it was deliberately placed among civilian infrastructure to use its citizens as human shields
    Smacks of Oct 7

    • Negated to mention
      As of mid-2025, none of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are fully functioning.
      According to the World Health Organization, only 17 are providing partial services, while the rest are not operational due to damage, destruction, or lack of supplies
      Intentionally targeted
      Not as a result of having sustained collateral damage

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