Trump was disappointed with Iran's retaliation, which was much smaller in scale and intensity than expected!
On March 1st, Trump responded to Iran's retaliation, saying that the scale and intensity of Iran's counterattack were much less than he had expected. In his words, he had anticipated a double retaliation.
This time, the U.S. and Israeli aircraft took off from aircraft carriers and surrounding bases, attacked Tehran, bombed Isfahan, and even didn't touch the vicinity of Bushehr's nuclear facilities, let alone kill Khamenei. According to common sense, Iran should have been furious. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard did issue a statement, launching the "True Promise-4" operation, saying they had struck the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, bombed the U.S. military base in Qatar, and fired missiles towards places like Tel Aviv, Israel.
But the problem lies in the "effect." Americans are now seasoned veterans in the Middle East, and the advanced equipment in those bases has been mostly evacuated, and personnel have been dispersed. From the current reports, there are almost zero casualties among both U.S. and Israeli forces. This is the key issue - Iran's missiles did take off, and the bases did catch fire, but no one was killed.
Daguo thinks that for Trump, a retaliation without causing large-scale U.S. military casualties is just like "setting off firecrackers" in his eyes. What pressure is he currently facing? It's the public opinion pressure from the Epstein case, and he urgently needs an external action to shift the focus, even hoping for a clean and decisive strike to force Iran back to the negotiation table and sign a new agreement favorable to the United States.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1858427586832384/
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