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In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian
leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government.
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In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian
leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government.
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Senior U.S. military officials have informed the leadership of a key U.S. ally
in the Middle East that President Donald Trump could authorize a U.S. attack on
Iran this weekend, multiple sources have confirmed to Drop Site News. Strikes
could commence as early as Sunday, the ally was informed, if the U.S. decides
to move forward.
“This isn’t about the nukes or the missile program. This is about regime
change,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official who consults for Arab
governments and is an informal advisor to the Trump administration on Middle
East policy. He told Drop Site that U.S. war planners envision attacks that
target nuclear, ballistic, and other military sites around Iran, but will also
aim to decapitate the Iranian government, and in particular the leadership and
capabilities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC is a
branch of the Iranian armed forces created after the country’s 1979 revolution
whose leadership now plays a major role in the country’s politics and economy.
The thinking in the Trump administration, according to the source, is that a
successful strike on Iranian leadership would be followed by Iranians returning
to the streets to protest, leading to the overthrow of the government. Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is hoping for an attack,” the former senior
intelligence official said, “and assuring Trump that Israel can help put in
place a new government that is friendly with the West.”
Two senior Arab intelligence officials told Drop Site that they received word a
U.S. attack could come “imminently.”
The U.S. briefing of the key Arab ally comes as regional countries are
feverishly engaged in last-minute efforts to mediate talks between the U.S. and
Iran to avert war. On Friday, Iran’s foreign minister met with Turkish leaders
to push forward a possible diplomatic resolution. Regional countries have been
engaged in attempts to establish a format for backchannel talks, including a
trilateral meeting involving Iranian, American, and Turkish leaders, aimed at
forestalling an expected attack.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday ruled out the use of its airspace for a potential U.S.
attack on Iran in a phone call between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, according to the Saudi state news
agency SPA. The United Arab Emirates also said on Monday it would not allow its
airspace or territorial waters to be used in any military action against Iran.
U.S. Central Command declined to comment for this report. The White House
referred Drop Site to Trump’s comments on Friday in the Oval Office, where he
said that the U.S. has a “large armada, flotilla, call it whatever you want,
heading towards Iran right now,” while declining to confirm whether Iran had
received a deadline to conclude an agreement to avoid a war.
“If such a miscalculation is made by the Americans, it will certainly not
unfold the way [U.S. President Donald] Trump imagines—carrying out a quick
operation and then, two hours later, tweeting that the operation is over,” said
Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia, Iran’s military spokesperson, in an
interview on Iranian TV on Thursday. “The scope of war will certainly extend
across the entire region,” he added. “From the Zionist regime to countries that
host American military bases, all will be within range of our missiles and
drones.”
Iranian officials have repeatedly said that if the U.S. attacks
Iran—particularly if it aims to assassinate the country’s leadership—that it
will respond with unprecedented counterstrikes against U.S. military
facilities, oil infrastructure in the region, and Israel. In a Senate Foreign
Relations Committee hearing this week, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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missiles in the event of a war.
Since the Gaza war began in October 2023, Iran has mostly exercised restraint
in its response to attacks launched by both Israel and the U.S. on its
personnel and military and nuclear facilities, choosing to telegraph many of
its attacks in advance to minimize escalation. Before launching retaliatory
strikes following previous Israeli attacks—like the assassination of Hamas’s
political leader Ismail Haniyeh in an IRGC facility in July 2024—Tehran
communicated through backchannels to the U.S. that it would be launching
barrages of missiles and drones at Israel, thereby avoiding large-scale
casualties and an escalation in fighting. The same pattern was used in response
to U.S. attacks on its nuclear facilities during the 12-day war in June 2025,
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style so they don’t start a huge war with the United States,” he said. “This
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Izadi said that the new leadership of the military in Iran has determined that
the previous policy failed to deter U.S. and Israeli aggression. “The number
that I hear is the goal is to get at least 500 American soldiers. The
casualties that they need to have if Iran is attacked again is at least 500,”
Izadi said. “I think the Iranian government, the Iranian military has decided
to respond quite harshly this time because you cannot have a country when that
country is threatened to be attacked militarily every other week.”
The revelation that the U.S. has informed the leadership of a regional ally
that strikes on Iran could begin imminently come amid ongoing efforts to
mediate a last minute off-ramp to a war.
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking in Istanbul on Friday during a
press conference held with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan, said that Iran
is ready to resume talks with the United States on issues related to its
nuclear program, but not under the threat of force. Araghchi also said that no
direct talks had been scheduled with U.S. officials and that Iran had made
preparations for war if attacked, while warning that such a conflict could
expand beyond Iranian borders throughout the region.
“I should also state unequivocally that Iran’s defensive and missile
capabilities—and Iran’s missiles—will never be the subject of any
negotiations,” Araghchi added, responding to U.S. demands that it limit the
scale and range of its ballistic missile program. “We will preserve and expand
our defensive capabilities to whatever extent is necessary to defend the
country.”
Araghchi also reiterated Iran’s willingness to find a diplomatic solution,
adding that Iran is prepared for a possible war but also for “fair and
equitable negotiations.”
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