The most dangerous shift in the current standoff with Iran is not the movement of ships or the volume of threats. It is the way time itself is being weaponised. Decisions that once belonged to political debate are now framed as races against the clock, where hesitation is treated as failure and delay as defeat. This is not accidental. It is a method.

In Washington, President Donald Trump has revived a style of signalling that leaves little space for recalibration, a pattern evident in recent public statements and military deployments widely reported in international media. Public threats of total destruction do more than intimidate an adversary; they narrow the speaker’s own room to manoeuvre. Once such language enters the public domain, restraint carries a domestic cost. Every pause demands justification. Every alternative looks like retreat.

Israel’s role in this dynamic is more direct. Iranian capabilities are increasingly described not as manageable risks, but as ticking deadlines. The argument is simple: act now or face irreversible loss later. This framing does not merely assess danger. It manufactures urgency.........

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