The escalation follows reports that Donald Trump has shifted toward favoring a preemptive strike on Iran, though the White House stated such an action will not occur before the midterms. General Mohsen Rezaei told Drop Site News that Iran has new targets in its sights, and the senior official warned that assassinations of Iranian leadership or civilian deaths would trigger these strikes. Tehran views current diplomatic efforts from Washington as insincere.
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Iran Orders Military to Target US Political Sites in Expected War
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Tehran has directed all branches of its military to treat political targets and critical infrastructure of the US and its allies as legitimate targets for attack. A senior security official told Fars News that the order applies to a next round of large scale war with the US and Israel, which Iran considers inevitable, and has already instructed operational units to prepare for a wider conflict.
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