Over the weekend, in the latest back-and-forth peace talks, President Trump criticized what he called a “piece of garbage” peace proposal from Iran. That proposal backtracked on a previous promise Iran’s government will give up enriched uranium, the U.S. president said.
"The plan is very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won't have a nuclear weapon," Trump told reporters Monday. "And they didn't want to go that far."
The U.S.-Israel military attack on Iran, which began February 28, started a 60-day deadline for military action by a U.S. president without congressional approval.
On May 1, up against the 60-day deadline, President Trump sent letters to congressional leaders declaring that military operations against Iran "have terminated.”
In between the beginning of Epic Fury, and Trump’s letter to Congress, Pakistan mediated a ceasefire in early April to begin peace talks. That meeting took place April 12, involving Vice President J.D. Vance in historic face-to-face talks, but President Trump ordered a U.S. Navy blockade a of Iran’s ports a day later when those talks failed.
In a much bigger naval strategy, the U.S. president more recently sent U.S. Navy ships into the Strait of Hormuz to protect commercial vessels from Iran’s fast-attack boats that are famous for harassing vessels. Those navy ships have come under attack from Iranian missiles and drones, and American sailors are eliminated several attack boats.
Iran’s navy has been obliterated during Epic Fury but the small attack boats, which are operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, number in the thousands.
Bob Maginnis, a national defense analyst, told American Family News declaring the war "terminated" and ending it are not the same thing.
“The fact that the president declared these hostilities ‘terminated’ was kind of a slight of hand. Hostilities will continue and there's no clear outcome,” Maginnis warned.
Regarding any peace negotiations, Maginnis said Iran’s ruthless IRGC would rather burn their country to the ground than surrender to the United States.
“The fact that you don't have an organic uprising means, at this point, that I don't really see much of an alternative,” he observed. “They'll continue to make things worse for the Iranian people, which is unfortunate, but it's a reality of what we're facing with now."
