Exclusive: Ahead of strikes, Trump was told Iran attack is high risk, high reward

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Source: Reuters

February 28, 2026 10:02 AM EST Updated 39 mins ago


WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Ahead of the U.S. attack on Iran, President Donald Trump received briefings that not only delivered blunt assessments about the risk of major U.S. casualties but also touted the prospect of a generational shift in the Middle East in favor of U.S. interests, a U.S. official told Reuters.

The launch of what the Pentagon called "Operation Epic Fury" on Saturday plunged the Middle East into a new and unpredictable conflict. The U.S. and Israeli militaries struck sites across Iran, triggering retaliatory Iranian attacks against Israel and nearby Gulf Arab countries.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the briefers described the operation to the president as a high-risk, high-reward scenario.

Trump himself appeared to echo that sentiment when he acknowledged the stakes at the onset of the operation, saying "the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost." But we're doing this not for now, we're doing this for the future, and it is a noble mission," Trump said in a video address announcing the start of major combat operations.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ahead-strikes-trump-told-iran-attack-was-high-risk-high-reward-2026-02-28/

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I suppose the zombie Darth Cheney and his reanimated and nascent neo-neocons, are smiling as they get resurrected out of their obscurity.

[jls4561]

1. He was told he could steal Iran's oil as well as Venezuela's?

[ananda]

14. Yes, any reward will have to be for himself, family, and cohorts...

in the form of real estate and money.

[FredGarvin]

2. No shite

[Skittles]

17. the "reward" would only be for Trump and his cronies

not for WE THE PEOPLE

and btw:
Ruben Gallego, Iraq War veteran sums it up very well:
"Draft dodger is willing to sacrifice working class kids. How charitable of him."

[Layzeebeaver]

3. They mean high risk / low reward for america

Low risk / high reward for trump himself.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

6. I don't know

The Trump-ordered decapitation may come back to bite him.

[Layzeebeaver]

10. Eye for an eye in that region of the world.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

4. Operation

Epstein Blurring is more like it.

[Javaman]

5. Everything the orange pedo touches: dies

High risk, high reward? For whom?

Not us, the prols

There will be no rewards for anyone in any of this

Just stale bread and a circus’s performed by the in patients of the asylum

At the end of the day, everyone in the world, their daily life will get that much harder.

[Bengus81]

12. Wonder if that fat ass NAZI has a clue what this will do to gas prices

I've seen this movie way to many times, and gas prices go through the roof. Gas prices during Bush's criminal War in Iraq sent prices to $4.00 per gallon in the Midwest (7.09 today),much higher elsewhere.

Oil Corporations and Media giants LOVE this shit.

[Javaman]

13. Not just gas but everything relies on gas as well

😬

[LudwigPastorius]

16. Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz.

That's an instant 20% decrease in the oil supply coming to the global market.

[lostincalifornia]

7. One would think that this could to push Iran into the arms of Russia and China. Russia is probably too engaged in

Ukraine.

[EX500rider]

8. Those are already some of their only "allies"

[PortTack]

9. He only heard high reward...nothing else...he's spreading himself and his fascist, miller run government WAY too thin

[EarthFirst]

11. The reward being what?

Trump branded hotels; high end retail and golf courses?

This benefits whom exactly?

[LudwigPastorius]

15. "high risk"

Not for him. Only for the "suckers and losers" in the military.

[mdbl]

18. Did you notice today he called them heroes?

Par for the course.

[pat_k]

19. I'd love to know what moron asserted "high reward" about change from pre-attack IRGC regime to new IRGC regime.