{"id":324319,"date":"2026-03-08T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324319"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:42:16","slug":"trump-has-privately-shown-serious-interest-in-u-s-ground-troops-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324319","title":{"rendered":"Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Courtney Kube<\/a>, Katherine Doyle<\/a>, Julie Tsirkin<\/a> and Gordon Lubold<\/a> \u2013 NBC News March 6, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Above, US adviser training Montagnards (indigenous central highlanders) in Vietnam in1962. America’s campaign in the country began with the deployment of small teams of Special Forces operatives who were used to train and advise locals. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

President Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran<\/a>, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations.<\/p>\n

Trump has discussed the idea of deploying ground troops with aides and Republican officials outside the White House while outlining his vision for a post-war Iran in which Iran\u2019s uranium is secure and the U.S. and a new Iranian regime cooperate on oil production similar to how the U.S. and Venezuela are, the sources said.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s comments expressing serious interest in deploying ground troops have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion of Iran, but rather on the idea of a small contingent of U.S. troops that would be used for specific strategic purposes, the U.S. officials, the former U.S. official and the person with knowledge of the discussions said. They said Trump has not made any decisions or given any orders related to ground troops.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis story is based on assumptions from anonymous sources who are not part of the President\u2019s national security team and are clearly not read into these discussions,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. \u201cPresident Trump always, wisely keeps all options open, but anyone trying to insinuate he is in favor of one option or another proves they have no real seat at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Publicly, Trump has not ruled out putting U.S. \u201cboots on the ground\u201d in Iran, though the war has so far consisted only of an air campaign. His private discussions about the idea show a president perhaps more willing to consider taking such a step than his public comments on the issue so far have suggested. Any deployment of American troops inside of Iran could increase the scale and scope of the war \u2014 and escalate the risks to American forces.<\/p>\n

Since the war began on Saturday, six U.S. service members have been killed and 18 wounded in counterattacks from Iran, according to the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

Trump has privately described to aides and Republican officials outside the White House that his ideal outcome in Iran is one like the emerging dynamic between the U.S. and Venezuela since American special forces captured Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in January, the current U.S. officials and former U.S. official said. In post-Maduro Venezuela, the U.S. backed a new president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, under the condition that she implement policies that Trump views as favorable to the U.S., including that the U.S. benefits from Venezuela\u2019s oil production.<\/p>\n

The president said in an interview with the New York Post<\/a> this week, \u201cI don\u2019t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground.\u201d He said while other presidents have ruled out boots on the ground, \u201cI say \u2018probably don\u2019t need them,\u2019 [or] \u2018if they were necessary.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Foreign policy experts offered various scenarios in which the president might choose to deploy U.S. troops on the ground in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could envision them doing some sort of special operations insertions if there were targets that they absolutely needed to take out or reduce but didn\u2019t lend themselves to bombardment,\u201d said Joel Rayburn, a former Trump administration official and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. \u201cThat\u2019s the kind of thing where you do an insertion, you attack a target, or conduct a raid, and then you get out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s private comments have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion but rather on sending a small group of U.S. troops to be used for specific strategic purposes, sources say. But that\u2019s how Vietnam started with small teams of advisors <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324342,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324319\/revisions\/324342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}