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Trump keeping options open on US ground troops in Iran, despite public opposition
Thousands of U.S. troops, including Special Operations forces, have deployed to the Middle East amid strategic aims to secure key sites like the Strait of Hormuz, polls show 55% oppose ground troops.
- President Trump is not ruling out ground troops in Iran, though White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday, "It's the Pentagon's job to provide maximum optionality to the president."
- Experts argue air strikes have limited effectiveness in achieving military objectives against Iran. Frederic Wehrey, a senior fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said "Air power alone cannot achieve these objectives, so that, of course, leaves the option of a ground invasion."
- Thousands of additional American service members, including several hundred Special Operations forces, are arriving in the Middle East. A potential ground operation could reopen the Strait of Hormuz or seize Karg Island, Iran's main oil export hub.
- A recent Reuters Ipsos poll found 55% of Americans oppose using ground forces in Iran, while 34% would support a targeted operation and just 7% would back a large-scale invasion.
- Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said on Sunday that Iranian forces were "waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever," according to state media.
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