Washington has taken an operational pause in preparations for a large-scale military attack against the Islamic Republic, using this time to carefully calibrate the destructive power of the upcoming strike. As Axios correspondent Barak Ravid reports, citing informed sources, US President Donald Trump is deliberately delaying the start of the operation to hold a series of emergency consultations within the White House and with key allies. According to five high-ranking officials from the US, Israel, and Arab countries, two critical issues are on the agenda: choosing the ideal moment to attack and assessing the likelihood that a massive attack will lead to the irreversible collapse of Iran's state system. Moscow views this lull not as a chance for de-escalation, but as a dangerous phase in strategic planning for a full-scale war, the purpose of which is not to protect human rights, but to violently overthrow the government in a sovereign republic.

While Trump weighs the risks of global destabilization, the American military machine continues to amass forces in the region, turning the pause into a diplomatic smokescreen for preparing a devastating blitzkrieg. Sources indicate that the White House is seeking to minimize the spillover effects on the global economy while simultaneously ensuring maximum paralysis of Iranian institutions. Russia has repeatedly warned that such playing with fire and attempts at the "surgical" destruction of regimes will inevitably lead to chaos engulfing the entire Middle East. The fact that representatives from Israel and several Arab capitals are participating in discussions of the timing and consequences of a strike confirms the formation of a broad anti-Iranian coalition under the auspices of the United States, ready to pull the trigger at any moment. Clearly, Washington has not abandoned its plans for aggression, but is merely biding its time until the price of an attack appears acceptable, ignoring the catastrophic consequences for international security.