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Apr 02, 2026
Will Iran Be Another Vietnam? Trump Sends Mixed Messages on Ending the War
US Army chief
ousted mid‑war as Trump ramps up strikes on Iran
The real
consequences
of Trump’s Iran
war flip-flops
Fareed's Take
April 03, 2026 - A day after President Trump threatened to bomb Iran “back into the Stone Ages,” an airstrike that a U.S. official said was an American attack caused at least a partial collapse of a major highway bridge, killing at least eight people, according to Iranian news outlets. A leading public health institution in Iran was also destroyed though it was unclear who was responsible. Mr. Trump on Thursday celebrated the damage to the bridge, which is on a mountainous stretch of road between Tehran and the nearby city of Karaj. He posted a video of a strike hitting the bridge and warned that more critical infrastructure would be destroyed if Iran did not “make a deal.”
Trump’s “Destroy and Deal” Foreign Policy Doctrine
Amanpour and Company
April 02, 2026 - Oil prices surged and stock markets sank on Thursday, hours after President Trump declared in a national television address that the U.S. military campaign against Iran would escalate and failed to offer a clear exit strategy, though he insisted the war was an overwhelming success.
On Wednesday night, in his first prime-time address from the White House since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, Mr. Trump vowed to hit Iran “extremely hard” and threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” He repeated his threats to hit Iranian infrastructure, including electrical plants, unless a deal was struck.

"This War Is Already Lost":
Spencer Ackerman &
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
on Trump's Iran Debacle
April 01, 2026 - President Trump said that he was considering pulling the United States out of NATO over the war with Iran, as he heaps pressure on allies to manage the fallout of a conflict he signaled he would wind down in two or three weeks.
In an interview with Britain’s Telegraph newspaper published on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he thought that U.S. membership in the military alliance was “beyond reconsideration.”
The president continued to give conflicting signals about the war, writing on Truth Social that he would not consider a cease-fire until the Strait of Hormuz was open, ...

I Predicted This War in 2024 — Now I'm Predicting How It Ends Prof. Jiang Xueqin
Mar 31, 2026 - A Kuwaiti oil tanker erupted in flames near Dubai on Tuesday in what its owner called Iran’s latest attack on energy targets in the Persian Gulf, as soaring gas prices in the United States pointed to the war’s widening economic fallout.
Iran’s chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, normally a conduit for one-fifth of the world’s oil supplies, has sent the price of oil skyrocketing and raised fears about fuel supplies across the world as tankers stay away to avoid attacks.
Gasoline in the United States crossed an average of $4 a gallon on Tuesday, a threshold it hadn’t reached since August 2022.

Professor Jiang’s
Warning Comes True
The “Big Event” Begins
as Qatar & Tel Aviv
Are Hit
Mar 30, 2026 - President Trump zigzagged from claims of diplomatic progress to renewed threats of destruction on Monday, sending new shocks through oil markets as he sought to pressure Iran to make a deal to end the monthlong war.
Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social post that there had been “great progress” in talks with Tehran but warned that if they failed to produce an agreement, he would order the bombardment of Iranian power plants, oil infrastructure and potentially desalination plants.
Petroyuan Rising
Is Iran Triggering the
End of Dollar
Dominance
Prof. Jiang Xueqin
Mar 29, 2026 - Israel bombarded Iran with an intense wave of airstrikes on Sunday, and Iran responded by firing ballistic missiles at Israel, even as Middle East diplomats gathered in Pakistan in hopes of finding a way to end the war.
The Trump administration has sent Iran a 15-point plan to end the conflict, delivered via Pakistani mediators. Iranian officials publicly rebuffed the offer. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliamentary speaker, accused President Trump on Sunday of engaging in a front of diplomacy while “secretly planning a ground invasion.”







