The World Waits To See What Trump's Next Move Is In The Middle East

Events in the Middle East are tense, to put it mildly. Nobody knows what will happen, although the ball is in President Trump’s court about how to respond. Trump isn’t offering any clues, however, about how the United States will handle the bombing of Israel, or the Israelis need for American bunker-busters to take out the Iranian nuclear site at Fordow. WOR White House correspondent Jon Decker has been watching events to see what happens next. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to explain what’s happening in Washington that would affect what happens in Tehran.

As Decker told host Larry Mendte, Trump is playing his cards close to his chest on the topic: “President Trump was asked twice yesterday what his intentions are in terms of potentially taking military action, involving the U.S. military in an attack on nuclear sites in Iran, and the President both times being very cryptic, saying that he has not decided either way. He’s non-committal at this point. He essentially said, ‘You’ll know like the rest of the world will know when I make a decision.’ (Therefore) we are on pins and needles waiting to see if, indeed, President Trump becomes a war-time President by essentially ordering one of those or many of those bunker-busting bombs on those Iranian nuclear sites. That’s the capability that the U.S. has. Israel does not have that capability.”

Decker says Trump might be hesitant because he needs to think several moves ahead: “You know what the Ayatollah, the supreme leader of Iran, has threatened, and that is an attack on Iran would lead to retaliation. It would lead to a reprisal by Iran, perhaps on U.S. troops that are on bases in the Middle East, in the region, so that’s something that the President and his national security team have to contemplate.”

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