'Donald Trump pulled out of huge Iran attack over fears - but it's not over yet'

'Donald Trump pulled out of huge Iran attack over fears - but it's not over yet' "Once again US President Donald Trump has put the entire world on edge with plans to launch a massive attack on Iran, before pulling it because he feared it might not work - but attack can still happen" It seems US President Donald Trump pulled strike plans on Iran overnight after being told the objective would likely not be achieved from the attack. That is not to say that an attack is no longer going to happen - it may have just been put on hold pending reliable intelligence updates from within Iran. So the attacks could still happen, along with the Iranian response. One possibility is that there was concern about Israel being hammered by Iran-funded Hezbollah from Lebanon if a war was triggered. That along with the ongoing threat from the Houthis in Yemen and pro-Tehran militia in Iraq may have been thought to be putting Israel too much at risk. Iran protests fuel safety fears for Brit couple held in Tehran jails READ MORE: ICE shoots ANOTHER person in Minneapolis during night of chaos after Renee Good killing If the objective is to topple the regime and give the protests the momentum they need to succeed on the ground, that would have been a very big ambition. Wiping out most of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities would be an enormous task, especially after they have had significant forewarning. And knowing exactly where the heads of the regime are at any given time was always going to be challenging at a time of huge security clampdowns. Monitoring the whereabouts of military, intelligence and political leaders would be a huge ask given the flooding of security patrols on the ground. It would be immensely difficult to give intelligence guarantees pinpointing the locations of a number of people within the same time frame- as the US and Israel have done before. When they did it inside Iran with so much success before they had the cover of the streets being filled with people. This time is different, with checkpoints, no-go areas and people being shot dead randomly. However, all of this ‘will he or won’t he?’ debate may be meaningless as the usual rules seem not to apply to Donald Trump. With his bellicose threats towards the regime he has had the world’s attention and once he has achieved that he often seems to lose interest. Sources are saying much of the footage coming out of Tehran is 24 hours old so getting real-time information on the protests is also difficult. We still do not know if the protests have run out of steam, even though it is clear the regime must be looking at an uncertain future. The 20,000 opposition cells that existed in secret before the uprising, that the Daily Mirror covered weeks ago may have been exposed and dismantled. It really is difficult to calculate where the revolution goes from...

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