Trump Orders New Iran Strike Campaign Targeting Surrender, Officials Say
🎖️ PENTAGON — Washington is escalating while simultaneously hunting a deal. That contradiction has a logic. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A "surrender" framing marks a shift from attrition to coercion — Washington wants collapse, not negotiation. Timing it days after Bessent's asset hunt and Iran's civilian infrastructure breakdown suggests a coordinated pressure sequence. Tehran's hardliners will use this to kill any moderate opening. The variable: whether Iran's military command fractures before its political will does.
