Donald Trump's Iran objectives: What can be achieved?
„Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” Trump said in a video shared on social media, vowing to destroy Iranian nuclear and military capabilities.
„We will ensure Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon,” he said.
Laying out the campaign objectives, Trump also said the US would obliterate Iran’s ballistic missile program and its naval forces.
As the US-Israel military campaign against Iran doesn’t appear to be short-term and limited, analysts believe the conflict could continue for weeks, if not months.
Objective 1: Stop Iran obtaining or building nuclear weapons
After the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June 2025, Trump declared that the US had „obliterated” Iran’s major nuclear facilities and that the Islamic Republic would not be able to build nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future.
„The US is conducting a war whose aim is to destroy this (nuclear) program, again, so I think this, by and large, is a pretext,” said Marcus Schneider, expert at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Lebanon.
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„Iran’s nuclear program was set back at the time by US attacks; some say by a few months, others say by a few years,” he told DW. ”But I believe it cannot be eliminated. It is also a question of expertise, which means that if Iran has the expertise to build these centrifuges and to enrich [uranium], then that is something you cannot eliminate through air force.”
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