The President of the United States announced on Friday the deployment of a second American aircraft carrier in the Gulf region, near Iran. Donald Trump has increased threats in recent weeks against Tehran with a view to negotiating an agreement on the nuclear program.

Published on: 02/13/2026 - 10:13 p.m. Modified on: 02/14/2026 - 2:34 p.m.

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Donald Trump continues to increase pressure on Iran. An American aircraft carrier will leave “very soon” for the Gulf region, according to a statement from Donald Trump. While a first aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, and its escort ships have been stationed near Iran since January, the American president announced on Friday February 13 the dispatch of the Gerald Ford. The day before, he had threatened Tehran with “traumatic” consequences in the event of failure of negotiations on Iranian nuclear power.

The exiled son of the last shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, who lives in the United States and has not set foot in his native country since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, called for demonstrations on Saturday in Munich, Toronto and Los Angeles after the wave of mobilization bloodily suppressed in early January, to demand international action against Iran.

In a message published on X, he further urged Iranians inside the country to join these protests by chanting slogans from their windows and rooftops on Saturday and Sunday.

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The American president had threatened military intervention in Iran in the face of the repression of demonstrations which, according to human rights NGOs, has left thousands dead.

He then continued to threaten Tehran to push for an agreement, particularly on the Iranian nuclear issue. Negotiations between the two enemy countries resumed a week ago in Oman, but their continuation remains uncertain.

Trump calls for agreement, “otherwise it will be very traumatic”

“We have to make an agreement, otherwise it will be very traumatic” for Iran, warned Donald Trump on Thursday, who described the February 6 discussions as “very good”. In the absence of an agreement, he said he would move on to "phase two", which would be "very tough" for the Iranians.

He recalled the United States' bombing of Iranian nuclear sites during a 12-day war launched by Israel in June.

After sending the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and escort ships to the Gulf in January, President Donald Trump indicated Friday that a second aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford, would leave "very soon" for the region.

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The nature of the targets that Washington could target in the event of an intervention is not clear, nor are the intentions of the United States vis-à-vis the Iranian leaders.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the White House on Thursday, said he had expressed to Donald Trump his "skepticism about the quality of any agreement with Iran". He again pleaded for taking into account the "security needs" of his country, for whom any Iranian-American negotiations must include, in addition to the nuclear issue, the questions of Iranian ballistic missiles and Tehran's support for regional armed groups which are hostile to it.

The Secretary General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, indicated on Friday that an agreement between the IAEA and Tehran on inspections of the nuclear program was "possible", but "terribly difficult". Iran refused in November for the agency to inspect its various sites bombed in June.

Tuesday in Tehran, on the eve of the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iranians shouted slogans from their windows against the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to videos broadcast on social networks and verified by Agence France-Presse (AFP).

More than 53,000 people arrested

According to the US-based group Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), at least 7,005 people, most of them demonstrators, were killed during protests in early January, and more than 53,000 people have been arrested since.

Among them are members of the reform movement, including the head of the main reform coalition, Azar Mansouri, who was released on bail on Friday according to her lawyer. Two other figures from the reform camp, Javad Emamont and Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, were also released Thursday evening, according to Iranian media.

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An 18-year-old Iranian, accused of killing a police officer during protests, risks being executed, the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) said on Thursday.

According to the IHR, hundreds of people are facing charges related to the protests, which could result in their being sentenced to death.

According to the Iranian authorities, the demonstrations left more than 3,000 dead, the vast majority of them members of the security forces or passers-by killed by “terrorists” in the pay of Israel and the United States.

With AFP

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