As the two-week ceasefire with Iran draws to a close, US President Donald Trump appears to have lost interest in going to war. While urging Iran to reach a long-term peace agreement, he alternates between menacing and accommodative stances. According to a Wall Street Journal article, he is battling a worry that the scenario could resemble the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, which was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in recent memory.
The story claims that Trump's top advisers are restricting the flow of information to him because they think his impatience would worsen the operations. This is the first time that Trump's impetuous nature has been put to the test during a protracted military conflict.

"Out of Control Room"
Trump reportedly lost his cool and yelled at his aides for hours in March after learning that Iranian forces had downed a US F-15. "If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter...with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election," he told officials, according to a WSJ report.
Trump insisted that the two crew members be removed from Iran right away by the US military. However, since the takeover of the Iranian government that precipitated the hostage crisis, the US had not been on the ground in Iran, thus they had to figure out how to enter dangerous Iranian territory while avoiding Tehran's own armed forces.

"Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn't be helpful, instead updating him at meaningful moments," a senior administration official told WSJ during this trying time.
"Images of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis—one of the biggest international policy failures of a presidency in recent times—had been looming large in his mind," said a situation room official.

Trump's Concerns
According to reports, Trump is afraid of sending troops into danger despite his extreme warnings of "obliterating" Iran and seizing Kharg Island. According to those with knowledge of the situation, the president worries that, like other presidents who have been in combat, soldiers may be hurt and some may not return home.
Nevertheless, he has made dangerous statements "without input from his national security team," such as his post about his intentions to eradicate Iranian civilisation. However, his closest advisers see the action as a means of promoting talks in a conflict that the president was eager to put an end to.