Is the US Joining Strikes?

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00:00Riyadh, let's start with you and President Trump's increasing involvement.

00:05Today he has said, I may do, I may not, when asked if the U.S. will join Israeli strikes on Iran.

00:13He's keeping us guessing, Riyadh, but what is the reality?

00:18Well, the reality is that we have forces being mobilized in the region.

00:25We have warplanes, we have now two aircraft carriers headed to the region,

00:34air refueling tankers already deployed in the region.

00:39And we've seen a lot of, in the rhetoric, President Trump yesterday was talking in the terms,

00:50in the first person, in terms of we have achieved as a priority,

00:56although the U.S. is not involved right now in the conflict, and it is the Israeli warplanes,

01:03but he's talking in the first person, which means that, in heart,

01:08it seems that President Trump is in this war right now.

01:14So, this rhetoric could be either as a means of pressure, psychological warfare, on the Iranians,

01:23but also it could be as to, you know, keep them guessing,

01:29as we saw prior to the start of this conflict.

01:33Some observers went as far as believing that President Trump was in cahoots with Prime Minister Netanyahu

01:42and misleading the Iranians, to which allowed Israelis to launch this surprise attack on the Iranians.

01:51So, right now, based on the facts on the ground, the U.S. is preparing for a military action,

02:02even though they're talking about just possibly attacking Fordu, the nuclear side.

02:11However, if the U.S. was to get involved militarily, it's going to be all out.

02:17I mean, the U.S. is not going to go in just to strike one target and sit back and wait for the Iranians to fire back at them

02:26because Iran has warned and threatened that it's going to be targeting U.S. bases in the region.

02:33The U.S. is going to go in, hit the nuclear sites,

02:37but also preempt all the Iranian missile bases that have missiles targeting the U.S. bases in the region.

02:48So, it's going to be all in, not just a military operation.