{"id":9663,"date":"2026-08-14T06:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9663"},"modified":"2026-08-14T06:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:34:55","slug":"trumps-iran-headaches-are-mounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9663","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran headaches are mounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            The Iran war hasn\u2019t gone well for President Donald Trump since, well, shortly after it began.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9661\">Sailor went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln this month as conditions on the ship prompt lawmakers\u2019 demand for answers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Despite extensive US military attacks and economic pressure, Iran hasn\u2019t felt the need to capitulate to Trump\u2019s demands. And even when there have been ceasefires with favorable terms for Iran, Tehran still didn\u2019t abide by them.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But Trump\u2019s headaches with the war are mounting. And many of them extend beyond the battlefield and the negotiating table.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Some of the recent developments:\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<span><br \/>\n            Trump\u2019s newly reported secret plane switch in Turkey due to a potential Iranian threat is raising major questions about the administration using staff and media as decoys. The revelation is also undercutting the administration\u2019s claims about Iran\u2019s diminished capabilities and leading to mockery of Trump, including by Iranian state media.<br \/>\n        <\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span><br \/>\n            The United States\u2019 munitions shortfall problem \u2014 which Trump was warned about before the war began \u2014 appears to be coming to a head.<br \/>\n        <\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span><br \/>\n            There are increasing signs of Trump administration officials and allies growing weary of the war and looking for or urging an off-ramp.<br \/>\n        <\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span><br \/>\n            There are now also increasing reports of declining living conditions and mental health aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid an extraordinarily long deployment to support the war effort. CNN reported Thursday that one sailor went overboard wearing a life vest, with a US official saying the Navy viewed the event as a \u201cmental health\u201d incident.<br \/>\n        <\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            And through it all, Iran only appears to be growing bolder and upping its demands \u2014 perhaps believing that its leverage is increasing.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            All of the above threatens Trump\u2019s ability to keep prosecuting the war. And these developments add to the costs of a war \u2014 now in its sixth month \u2014 whose purpose Americans have never been convinced of in the first place. The president insists he\u2019s not feeling the time pressure, but some in his party would beg to differ with the midterms looming.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The plane switch in particular threatens to add a layer of scandal over the already unpopular war. And as much as anything, it undercuts the administration\u2019s claims to have decimated Iran militarily.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            This week we learned that the Trump administration feared a threat from Iran was serious enough that it warranted sneaking the president off Air Force One for his departure from Turkey last month. (CNN reported Wednesday that the threat involved a shoulder-fired missile.)\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The munitions supply has long been a sleeping giant. CNN has reported that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and other military leaders warned Trump before the war began that the stockpiles could be an issue in a protracted conflict.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump seemed to anticipate a much shorter war, lasting four to six weeks or so. But that\u2019s not what he\u2019s gotten. And increasing reports, including from CNN, suggest Caine\u2019s warnings were well-founded and that key munitions are significantly depleted. The US military has exhausted nearly 80% of its interceptors for a key missile defense system, known as THAAD.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Trump administration has claimed it has plenty of munitions to finish the job in Iran. But that doesn\u2019t address whether the war might cause the US to be so short of critical munitions \u2014 which take time to replenish \u2014 that it leaves the country exposed or might embolden an adversary like China to try and invade Taiwan.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That\u2019s increasingly a cost-benefit analysis that administration officials will need to consider. But it\u2019s already a dynamic that threatens Trump\u2019s ability to apply pressure on Iran.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A major question, of course, is whether military or administration officials could even prevail upon Trump if they regard the munitions issue as being dire. But there are increasing signs that key figures are growing weary of the war and sending signals that it might be time to ramp it up.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9641\">Why officials decided to smuggle Trump out of Turkey with a catering truck and a secret plane<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            CNN reported last week that Caine has privately made clear to other top Trump advisers that the administration needs to find an off-ramp from the war because the military options on the table to escalate the conflict could backfire, and airpower alone is unlikely to achieve Trump\u2019s objectives.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            There are also signs that loyal Trump allies are increasingly concerned about the war costing Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson said recently that \u201cwe\u2019ve got to wrap it up,\u201d and Fox News host Laura Ingraham has said the \u201cclock is ticking.\u201d (Indeed, the Guardian recently reported that more Iran war skepticism is seeping in on the normally rah-rah airwaves of Fox.) Even cheerleaders for Trump and his war effort like right-wing influencer Benny Johnson have signaled it\u2019s time to move on.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cForeign wars with no end in sight are always unpopular. They will always be political cancer,\u201d Johnson posted on X two weeks ago. He added: \u201cEnd the war. Be done. Refocus on America. Gas, grocery, home prices and immigration. Thats how we win.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The length of the war also appears to be contributing to another problem for the administration\u2019s ability to keep prosecuting it: fatigue, poor living conditions and declining mental health among the service members tasked with supporting the war effort.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            News outlets\u202fStars and Stripes\u202fand the\u202fNavy Times have reported multiple attempts by crew members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to jump overboard. A sailor recently went overboard, CNN reported, before being rescued.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And around 200 family members of Lincoln crew members voiced concerns about the situation \u2014 including lack of supplies, food shortages and water contamination \u2014 at town halls last week in San Diego. The Lincoln has been deployed since November and hasn\u2019t made a port call in more than 200 days, which Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said is a modern-day record for consecutive days at sea.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The US Navy said it takes \u201cevery service member\u2019s well-being seriously and have religious, medical and mental health professionals available to assess and address concerns as they arise.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the emerging story epitomizes Trump\u2019s problems.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            He seems to regard continuing the war and keeping up the economic pressure on Iran as largely a cost-free endeavor. The US doesn\u2019t have boots on the ground and there aren\u2019t constant stories about troop deaths. Rising gas prices have been the war\u2019s biggest political problem.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But as the situation stretches months beyond when the administration signaled it would end, other problems are seeping in. Some of them make continuing the war more difficult on a practical level, while others suggest the stalemate will keep giving the administration political problems that it \u2014 and its allies \u2014 have to reckon with.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And given the war was already looking like an albatross and a quagmire \u2013 with the midterms less than three months away \u2014 these are pretty inauspicious developments.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9631\">Dogs know if we\u2019re happy, sad or scared just from our expressions, study suggests<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iran war hasn\u2019t gone well for President Donald Trump since, well, shortly after it began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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