Donald Trump is preparing to remove some of his most senior national security officials over internal dissent on what is shaping up to be the defining foreign policy gamble of his second term: a ceasefire deal with Iran that has split his cabinet and unsettled key allies.
Senior US sources told Israel Hayom that Trump is weighing the dismissal of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, two of the most powerful figures in his national security apparatus, after both men openly opposed his ceasefire agreement with Iran. 'The debate has been settled. Anyone who opposed it could pay a personal price,' a senior US official told the publication. The warning points to a White House apparently willing to sacrifice its own hawks to protect a deal that has already begun to reshape the Middle East.
