How Operation Epic Fury Unfolded

[epoch_component type=”photo_gallery” position=”left” section_title=”(Illustration by The Epoch Times, Public Domain, Shutterstock)” width=”100%” items=”5994116,” image_stays=”false” stays_for_paragraphs=””][/epoch_component] The Pentagon had been choreographing a prospective massive attack on Iran since 1980, but it wasn’t until December 2025 that U.S. President Donald Trump, after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, told military planners to give him that devastating option in case the fundamentalist Shia regime refused to end its uranium enrichment program. With that request, the countdown to Operation Epic Fury kicked off. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine told reporters during a March 2 press conference that with the president’s December request, the Pentagon began “setting the force and setting the theater” and shifted forces into place over the previous 30 days to “provide the president with credible options should action be required.”...