Fox’s Trey Yingst Says Trump Has ‘Put Iran in a Corner’ With Strikes: Face ‘Serious Decisions’ About Response Attacks
Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst said Saturday that in launching the strikes against Iranian nuclear sites, President Donald Trump has put the nation “in a corner” regarding their future actions against the United States and Israel.
Yingst is reporting live on the breaking news from the Middle East, where just a short time ago the United States attacked Iran in concert with an operation begun by key U.S. ally Israel.
Speaking with host Bret Baier, Yingst said in the hour after the strikes — which Trump announced after the fact on social media — that the move by the United States has essentially given Iran two options: peace or war.
“President Trump tonight, by striking the nuclear facilities, has now put Iran in a corner,” said Yingst. “They have to make a decision about what they want the future of the region to look like. And he’s made very clear that there is an opportunity now for peace following these strikes. Whether or not the Iranians will take it, that’s up to them.”
And they have now placed the Iranian regime in a position where they will have to make serious decisions about any sort of response against Israel and what they want to do in the future about attacking American interests or the Israelis directly.
We know there are American interests not only in the Red Sea but in places like Iraq with the US embassy in Baghdad, in Bahrain, in Kuwait, in Qatar. And the Iranians have threatened all of these interests.
They have launched campaigns not only against the Americans in the region, but of course Israel, through their proxies, like Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, who they have armed and trained, Hamas and Islamic Jihad inside Gaza, and then of course these Iran-backed Iraqi and Syrian Shia militias.
President Trump tonight, by striking the nuclear facilities, has now put Iran in a corner. They have to make a decision about what they want the future of the region to look like. And he’s made very clear that there is an opportunity now for peace following these strikes. Whether or not the Iranians will take it, that’s up to them.
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