Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran
NBC News • • world
Key Points:
- President Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying a small contingent of U.S. ground troops inside Iran for specific strategic purposes, though no formal decisions or orders have been made.
- Trump envisions a post-war Iran where the U.S. cooperates with a new Iranian regime on oil production, similar to the current dynamic between the U.S. and Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt emphasized that the president keeps all options open but denied that Trump has committed to any particular military approach, noting that the story is based on anonymous sources outside the national security team.
- Foreign policy experts suggest that any U.S. ground deployment would likely involve limited special operations rather than a large-scale invasion,
