US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz declared threateningly that “all options are on the table” at an emergency UN Security Council meeting called by the United States Thursday on the protests in Iran. Amid a brutal crackdown by the bourgeois-clerical regime in Tehran following the outbreak of protests on December 28, US President Donald Trump is setting the stage for a second American bombardment of the country in just over six months.

“President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk like we see at the United Nations. He has made it clear all options are on the table to stop the slaughter,” asserted Waltz. Media reports indicate that Trump has ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to deploy to the Persian Gulf, which will take approximately a week from its previous position in the South China Sea.