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Trump likely to ‘call off’ war in two weeks: Former US envoy
Elliot Abrams, who served as special envoy for Venezuela and Iran during Trump’s first term, says Trump has two options for ending the war in Iran.
“Either there is some kind of uprising against the regime or in probably a week or two, the president will call it off. He will say we’ve hit all the targets we planned to hit and now it’s over,” said Abrams during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
“I think it’s more likely that he will just call it off,” said Abrams, who also served as a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Abrams said that this was the more likely option because he claimed that while “the people of Iran really hate it [the current Iranian government] … that doesn’t tell us whether it’s going to fall in a week or five years.”
What is President Trump’s Iran exit strategy? His fmr. envoy Elliott Abrams says “either there is some kind of an uprising against the regime or in probably a week or two, the president will call it off” and say they’ve hit all they need to. The latter, he thinks, is more likely. pic.twitter.com/CGyOYD0YcK
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) March 13, 2026
And then what???
Iran is not going to call it off until the US leaves the ME or gets ironclad security guarantees not to be attacked again by the US or Israel. And who is going to provide that?
The chance of any uprising within 2 weeks is practically zero.
Plus another 2 weeks will really start to hurt the world economy. Trump, can't think further ahead then who shall we bomb today.
‘Trump was duped by Netanyahu’: Iran’s Ghalibaf
Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, says the war will continue until the US and Israel come to regret it.
“Trump was duped by Netanyahu into starting the war and is now acting under his control,” Ghalibaf said in a social media post. “Regarding the major crime they have committed, Iran no longer makes ‘any distinction’ between the United States and the Zionist regime.”
Meanwhile CNN shifts the blame to Israel, Iran won't see it that way.
CNN Investigates: Tehran toxic air calls proportionality of Israeli strikes into question
A CNN analysis of satellite imagery and air quality data shows Israeli strikes at fuel facilities across Tehran last weekend spiked pollution levels, ignited fires and caused oil spills, leading experts to call into question the proportionality of the military’s actions under international law amid criticism from environmental experts and health officials.
The Israeli military accepted responsibility for the strikes but said the facilities were used by “military forces of the Iranian terrorist regime,” which provides fuel to “various consumers, including military entities in Iran.”
Legal expert Craig Jones, a senior lecturer at England’s Newcastle University, told CNN this justification was problematic and said it would likely not meet the threshold of having a “direct military advantage.”
“There are very few nations on earth that would agree that that’s a legitimate military target,” Jones said.
