For the moment, the president decides to continue with the diplomatic route until exhausting the 60-day negotiation period established in the MOU
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, keeps the option of launching large-scale attacks against the Iranian regime on the table, but for now, he prefers to continue with diplomatic talks, according to a report on Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal.
Trump met in recent days with the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, to weigh the option of abandoning negotiations with Tehran and resuming large-scale bombings, a task that some U.S. officials describe as "finishing the job".
Although he has not made a final decision, Trump told his advisors that he believes another round of large-scale attacks could derail diplomacy and harm the U.S. chances of dismantling the Islamic regime's nuclear program.
However, as analyst Suzanne Maloney pointed out to the Journal, Trump has other options to weaken Iran, such as slowing access to billions of dollars in funds that the regime desperately needs, or making the cost of trying to militarily control the Strait of Hormuz increasingly high for the Iranians.
Pentagon generals presented Trump with a list of targets to "finish the job"
Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Qatar
On Tuesday, Trump's diplomatic advisors, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, arrived in Doha for a new round of negotiations with Tehran, although the talks are being conducted through intermediaries and not face-to-face. Technical experts from both countries were also scheduled to hold indirect talks this week.
A key point of contention between the parties is the Iranian regime's insistence on charging a kind of toll to ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, an initiative that Trump has firmly rejected. Tehran has also stated that it will not accept severe restrictions on its nuclear program and intends not to honor what it signed in the initial agreement.
It is worth noting that the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding two weeks ago, ending hostilities that began on February 28 when U.S. and Israeli bombings struck the Iranian capital. The initial agreement establishes a 60-day framework for the parties to work towards a permanent agreement.
Iranian military patrol the Strait of Hormuz before the war
