One and Done? “That’s just the truth: We don’t know how they will respond,” a senior administration official told NOTUS’ Jasmine Wright in the hours after Donald Trump announced U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities – and told the world that the American military is done with offensive action if Iranian leaders do what they’re told.
The president cannot promise that this is over, which means the impact of this moment on American politics cannot actually be measured yet. But Team Trump strongly feels they threaded this needle.
What that sounds like: “If this was two weeks ago, they would have, of course, responded with immense force. Right now they are significantly weakened,” the official said of Iran.