The aircraft carriers are already in motion. Missile defenses are quietly repositioned. Intelligence flights sweep the region night after night. Money is moving in Tehran. Commanders are relocating. Safe houses are activated. This is what the final days before a war look like -- except the war hasn't come. Yet. For weeks, the United States has positioned itself as if a strike on Iran could happen at any moment. And then, just as suddenly, President Trump's tone softened. The threats grew less specific. The red lines blurred. The world noticed. This isn't hesitation. It's something more calculated -- and more unsettling. Because behind closed doors, nearly everyone is saying the same thing: don't pull the trigger.
Saudi Arabia doesn't want Iran struck. Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly warned against it. Gulf states hosting U.S. bases have pleaded for restraint. Even countries that have spent decades fearing Iranian power are suddenly arguing that weakening Tehran could make everything worse. That should make us take pause. Iran is not Iraq. It is not Libya. It is a regime built to survive strikes, absorb pain, and retaliate asymmetrically. Its power doesn't rest in one bunker or one leader, but in a sprawling network designed for one moment only: the moment Iran believes it is facing extinction.
That is the moment everyone fears. Because once Iran believes it has nothing left to lose, every restraint disappears. Missiles toward Israel. Proxies unleashed across the region. U.S. bases targeted. Oil lanes disrupted. Markets collapse. A regional war could become global in hours. Saudi Arabia understands this. Israel understands this. And Washington understands it too -- even if it doesn't say so publicly. A strike wouldn't end Iran's influence. It would detonate it. (Ed note: Another very interesting article from Prophecy News Watch, PNW.) (Read More)
