Trump’s Iran plan: 'kick the door in' and hit the regime where it hurts

The drumbeat of war in the Middle East is getting louder - and
once again it’s Iran in America’s crosshairs.


A second round of talks over Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons
programme ended this week without a deal. In the last few
days, dozens of American fighter jets and refuelling tankers have
joined the US's two carrier strike groups in the region. This is
now the largest American military buildup in the Middle East
since the Iraq war in 2003.


Venetia chats to Henry Bodkin, The Telegraph's Jerusalem
correspondent, and Roland Oliphant, chief foreign affairs analyst
about when war might break out and how it could unfold.


Plus Roland speaks to Maryam Mazrooei, an Iranian journalist and
war photographer who fled the country after being arrested and
imprisoned in 2022, about whether American-led regime change
would spark a civil war in Iran.


Read - Trump sends fighter jet squadron to ‘kick the door down’
in
Iran: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/18/us-military-aircraft-heading-towards-iran/


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