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Трамп готов отправить еще тысячи солдат: каковы варианты наземной операции в Иране — Trump is ready to send thousands more soldiers: what the options are for a ground operation in Iran
On 19 March 2026, Vesty, the Russian-language site of Israel's Ynet, published "Трамп готов отправить еще тысячи солдат: каковы варианты наземной операции в Иране". The byline is Vesty-Ynet. No single reporter is named. The article says it is passing on Reuters, which cited American sources. An American family should care because the options it lists include US forces on the Iranian coast, on Kharg Island, and beside Iran's enriched uranium. The same article says no decision had been made, and that ground forces had not been sent into Iran.
Evidence rating: MODERATE. Reuters, as Vesty retells it, describes ground options under discussion. A White House source on the page says the decision to send ground forces had not been made, and the article notes ground forces had not yet been sent into Iran.
What the article says
Vesty writes that the Trump administration was considering sending several thousand more service members to the Middle East, because a ground operation was still on the table. It attributes that to Reuters and American sources. It says President Donald Trump was considering a wider Operation Epic Fury, which the article says began on 28 February 2026. A larger force, it says, would give the United States more military options in the region.
One option is escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea lane at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Vesty says that job would be mostly ships and aircraft. It says the step could also require American troops on the Iranian coast.
Администрация Трампа также обсуждает возможность отправки сухопутных сил на остров Харк в Персидском заливе, через который проходит 90% иранского нефтяного экспорта.
Vesty, 19 March 2026, citing Reuters. In plain English: the Trump administration is also discussing sending ground forces to Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, through which 90 percent of Iranian oil exports pass.
Vesty says one Reuters source called a landing on Kharg extremely dangerous, because Iran could hit the island with missiles and drones. It says the United States struck military targets on Kharg on 13 March, and that Trump threatened the island's oil infrastructure. It says military experts thought controlling the island would be preferable to destroying it.
The article says any use of American ground forces, even a limited mission, would be a serious political risk for Trump. It points to US midterm elections in 2026 and to growing public dislike of the war with Iran.
It says administration sources also discussed sending American forces into Iran to guard stocks of enriched uranium, uranium processed toward possible use in a nuclear program. Those sources, Vesty says, did not think a deployment inside Iran was inevitable soon, and they would not discuss operational details. The article says experts called a uranium-guard mission extremely hard and dangerous, even for US special operations forces, the small units trained for raids.
Vesty quotes a White House source. The source said that, at this stage, no decision to send ground forces had been made, but that Trump was keeping every option. The source listed the goals as destroying Iran's ballistic-missile arsenals, eliminating its navy, keeping Iran-backed armed groups from destabilizing the region, and making sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
Vesty writes that ground forces had still not been introduced into Iran. It says 13 American service members had been killed during Operation Epic Fury, and about 200 wounded. It says the US military noted that most of the wounds were light.
The article says Trump had for years criticized earlier presidents for foreign wars and had promised the United States would not be pulled into them. It says he began the operation against Iran in February 2026 and had lately refused to rule out ground forces. A senior White House source told Reuters, Vesty writes, that Trump had several options for controlling Iran's enriched uranium and had not yet decided what to do next.
What other reporting and posts add
- Britain's Telegraph, a day later. The Telegraph's 20 March 2026 live report: "One option under consideration is the deployment of ground troops to Iran's Kharg Island, which is responsible for 90 per cent of Iran's oil exports, multiple US officials told Reuters." Its headline went further than Netanyahu's words that day, which is a reason to read the body, not the headline. Telegraph. (capture: twitter/t13__v147.md)
- A fact check the same day. Tempo English, 20 March 2026, checked a viral photo said to show US and Israeli troops occupying Iran and found it came from a 2024 US exercise in South Korea. Its summary: "As of March 17, 2026, the conflict ... has only involved the deployment of missiles and drones. Neither the United States nor Israel has launched any ground operations in Iran." Tempo. (capture: twitter/t13__v146.md)
- What was moving. A 19 March 2026 post describes the USS Tripoli with 2,200 Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit as "the first ground combat force headed to the theater," while saying "No ground invasion has yet taken place in Iran." A Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine force that sails with the Navy and can land from the sea. Post. (capture: twitter/t49__v579.md)
What it shows
Vesty, an Israeli Russian-language outlet, told its readers on 19 March 2026 that Trump was ready to send thousands more soldiers and listed the ground targets: Kharg, the coast, the uranium. By then 13 Americans had already died in the wider operation. The options Vesty listed became the plans reported by CBS, Axios, and the Washington Post over the next ten days (Pentagon Ground Plans 2026, Kharg Island and the Uranium Raid).
Check it yourself
Vesty says its account comes from Reuters. This page did not open a separate Reuters story.
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Research captures: twitter/t13__v147.md, twitter/t13__v146.md, twitter/t49__v579.md
Last Updated: 2026-09-26