The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has put on hold for now the option of sending troops to Iranian territory to pursue two goals that, as he has indicated, are not priorities at this moment: the alleged theft of Iran's enriched uranium and the taking of the strategic island of Kharg, one of the nerve centers of the country's oil industry.
In relation to enriched uranium, Trump has stated in remarks to Fox News that "right now we are not focused on it but perhaps at some point we will be," the president has indicated, who has dedicated a good part of the interview to defending his line of action against Iran, emphasizing, among other things, that he is restraining himself despite the fact that the United States would have the capacity to devastate the country.
Among the most extreme scenarios that Trump says he is not considering are the Iranian nuclear facilities. “The truth is, I think I’m behaving well. I could have destroyed their nuclear plants. I could have destroyed the entire country. For now, we have decided not to do it,” he affirmed.
The island of Kharg, located in southwestern Iran, is also not among his immediate priorities. “It doesn't rank very high on my to-do list,” he commented in the same interview with Fox News, before criticizing these types of questions because, in his opinion, they condition his strategic room for maneuver.
Despite everything, Trump has avoided setting a concrete timetable to close the showdown with Iran and has reiterated that the confrontation will conclude when “I feel it in my bones, when it seems right to me.”
Meanwhile, the United States maintains its intention to redouble the offensive on Iran. The chief of staff of the U.S. Army, General Dan Caine, has announced that this Friday will be “the most intense day,” after detailing that 6,000 targets have been attacked in almost two weeks of operations.