Trump Sought Options For Attacking Iran To Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program

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President Trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks. The meeting occurred a day after international inspectors reported a significant increase in the country’s stockpile of nuclear material, four current and former U.S. officials said on Monday.

A range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike. The advisers — including Vice President Mike Pence; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Christopher C. Miller, the acting defense secretary; and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — warned that a strike against Iran’s facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of Mr. Trump’s presidency.

Any strike — whether by missile or cyber — would almost certainly be focused on Natanz, where the International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Wednesday that Iran’s uranium stockpile was now 12 times larger than permitted under the nuclear accord that Mr. Trump abandoned in 2018. The agency also noted that Iran had not allowed it access to another suspected site where there was evidence of past nuclear activity.

Read more at New York Times.

{Matzav.com}

5 COMMENTS

  1. The man is even crazier & more reckless, & more dangerous, than I thought!!!
    A “lame Duck” President, contemplating dragging the Country into an unprovoked war!!!
    He’s a candidate for the “Funny Farm”, while strapped into a straight jacket!!!
    Right now. as we speak! No need to wait until noon time, January 20, 2021!!

    • @Charlie_Hall
      You can’t grow the Uranium stock to 12 times the limit in the time since the US pulled out of the JCPOA, not even close. You can go look it up. They were stocking up even under ‘the Deal’.

  2. I remember this report from several years ago and sure enough it’s right there.

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