Retired four-star general Jack Keane said the United States should take military action against Iran when the regime is at its “weakest,” arguing that Tehran continues to lie about its nuclear ambitions even as president. Donald Trump Open the door to new agreements.

“I think we are facing this reality: military option Really, it was the best option,” Keane said on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

Trump faces “This historic opportunity He said no other president had to “set the terms for a regime collapse that could herald lasting peace in the Middle East and define a president’s legacy.”

On February 6, 2026, fighter jets from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group performed a mission in the Arabian Sea. (U.S. Central Command/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Fox News senior strategist acknowledged that Trump has established a pattern of using diplomatic pressure to achieve his goals but still pushed for military action against Iran, claiming that “if they (Iran) make any deal, the first thing they want is sanctions relief.”

He said even a deal that would benefit the United States would not be in the best interests of the United States, the region or the Iranian people because it would prolong Iran’s life. ayatollah regimeis now the “weakest” country politically, economically and militarily.

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A bus burned during protests in Iran on January 21, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Majid Asgharipur/West Asia News Agency, Reuters)

Not only Iran destabilizes Middle EastUsing its proxies to attack Israel and repress its own people, the regime still “persists in lying…that they are really pursuing civilian nuclear power,” Kean said.

“They have a nuclear power plant in Iran. It accounts for less than 1% of…the energy needed to provide and maintain the grid,” he said. “This is all bullshit. They’ve been lying about this for years and they continue to do it.”

Trump envoys Witkoff, Kushner visit US aircraft carrier for talks amid Iran tensions

Kean’s comments followed visits to the United States by Steve Witkoff, the special envoy for the U.S. peace mission, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, and Gen. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command. USS Abraham Lincoln The deployment was planned in the Arabian Sea on Saturday.

Their visit comes after the United States and Iran held nuclear talks in Oman on Friday, in which Witkov and Kushner participated. Trump described the meeting as “very good.”

“Iran looks very keen to make a deal,” he told reporters Friday aboard Air Force One flying to Mar-a-Lago. “We have to see what the deal is.”

He made it clear that he would only reach an agreement with Iran if it agreed not to possess nuclear weapons.

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Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.