BYKenny Stancil, Common DreamsPUBLISHEDJanuary 4, 2021SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email

Foreign policy experts are sounding the alarm that U.S. President Donald Trump could launch an assault on Iran in the final weeks of his administration, potentially provoking a full-blown war just days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Fears of a military confrontation are mounting in the wake of the Pentagon’sannouncementSunday that the USS Nimitz would remain in the Middle East — a reversal of Friday’sdecisionto signal a de-escalation of hostility toward Tehran by redeploying the aircraft carrier out of the region prior to this past weekend’s one-year anniversary of the Trump-orderedassassinationof Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.

The intensification of tensions…