Trump is NOW talking about the Iranian missile and nuke development limits….
Something Iran says it does NOT want to deal with...
Iran is doing a naval military exercise this weekend to flex?
He wants regime change , but THAT seems to be going away as the Iranian Security forces continue locking people up…..
Reports question the power structure there…..
Donald Trump has said Iran is “talking to” the US and hinted at a deal to avoid the use of military strikes.
“[Iran is] talking to us, and we’ll see if we can do something, otherwise we’ll see what happens … We have a big fleet heading out there,” he told Fox News. “They are negotiating.”
Trump added that US allies in the region were not being told of plans for possible strikes due to security reasons. He has threatened to intervene in Iran in the wake of a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests.
“Well, we can’t tell them the plan. If I told them the plan, it would be almost as bad as telling you the plan – it could be worse, actually,” he said.
Washington has deployed a naval battle group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier off Iran’s shores, after Trump threatened to intervene in response to a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests.
The arrival of the flotilla has raised fears of a direct confrontation with Iran, which has warned it would respond with missile strikes on US bases, ships and allies – notably Israel – in the event of an attack.
But Trump has said he believes Iran will prefer to make a deal over its nuclear and missile programmes rather than face American military action – and Tehran has said it is ready for nuclear talks if its missiles and defence capabilities are not on the agenda.
“Contrary to the hype of the contrived media war, structural arrangements for negotiations are progressing,” said Ali Larijani, head of Iran’s supreme national security council, a day after the Kremlin said Larijani held talks in Moscow with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, on Saturday said a broader conflict would hurt both Iran and the US.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has never sought, and in no way seeks, war and it is firmly convinced that a war would be in the interest of neither Iran, nor the United States, nor the region,” he said in a call with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, according to the Iranian presidency.
Iran’s army chief, Amir Hatami, had earlier warned the US and Israel against any attack, saying his forces were “at full defensive and military readiness” to respond.
“If the enemy makes a mistake, without a doubt it will endanger its own security, the security of the region, and the security of the Zionist regime,” Hatami said, according to the official news agency IRNA.
He said Iran’s nuclear technology and expertise “cannot be eliminated”.
With tensions heightened, Iranian authorities rushed to deny that several incidents on Saturday were linked to any attack or sabotage, including an explosion in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas that local firefighters said was caused by a gas leak.
On Friday, US Central Command said the Revolutionary Guards would conduct “a two-day live-fire naval exercise” in the strait of Hormuz, a key transit hub for global energy supplies.
In a statement, US Central Command warned Iran against “any unsafe and unprofessional behaviour near US forces”…..
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ISW....Iran Update, January 31, 2026
- Iranian Naval Activity: Iran may be attempting to deter a possible US strike by moving forces and conducting a live-fire naval exercise in the Strait of Hormuz. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on January 30 that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy will hold a two-day live-fire naval exercise in the Strait of Hormuz starting on February 1. A policy analyst close to the regime stated on January 31 that the exercise in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf aims to deter any possibility of a naval blockade by demonstrating Iran’s military resolve to counter it.
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