Tuesday March 3, 2026
www.thenewsdesk.ng
By Idorenyin UMOREN
Private Investigator and Security Evaluator
With agency reports
The United States, US President Donald Trump on Monday, March 2, 2026, said he was not ruling out sending US troops into Iran, while threatening a new, “big wave” of attacks.
The 79-year-old Republican has long campaigned against decades of US military entanglements in the Middle East, but ordered a large-scale war against Iran starting Saturday, February 28, 2026.
While so far the assault has focused entirely on aerial attacks by missiles and bombs, President Trump refused to rule out sending ground troops — something far riskier in terms of possible casualties.
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground,” the US President said, using a golf term for anxiety.
“Every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it.”
“I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ (or) ‘if they were necessary,’” he told the New York Post in one of numerous brief interviews he has given since launching the Iran operation.
President Trump also spoke to CNN on Monday, March 2, flagging what he said would be an escalation in the assault on Iran.
“We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened,” he told CNN, without elaborating.
“The big one is coming soon.”
US and Israeli forces have so far struck hundreds of targets across Iran, including the country’s navy and command-and-control sites.
Four US military members have been announced killed, and three fighter jets have been shot down — officially in friendly fire.
Iran has fired missiles at Israel, at US bases around the region, and also at targets in regional Arab countries — Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates — something that Trump called “the biggest surprise.”