President Donald Trump asked his most sensible officials last week what opportunities he had for an offensive attack on Iran’s main nuclear site, the New York Times reported Monday.
Citing 4 existing and former U. S. officials, the newspaper reported that the assembly took a position Thursday in the Oval Office. The previous day, the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report received through the Times indicating that Iran’s uranium stocks had reached 12 times more than 300- The kilogram limit set forth in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the historic agreement Iran signed with the United States and five other countries in 2015, Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2018.
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Trump asked his most level-headed national security advisers what imaginable answers could be given him and what was the most productive way to respond to Iran, officials told The Times.
Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, and Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley were some of the senior advisers who convinced the president not to carry out an army attack, according to the newspaper. They warned that such an attack could seamlessly become a complete one in his final days as president, the Times reported.
Administration officials briefed on the assembly told the newspaper that after Pompeo and Milley criticized the risk of the attack becoming a broader conflict, officials left the assembly thinking that the option of a missile attack on Iranian soil was no longer in doubt.
But officials told the newspaper that Trump will likely continue to look at the attack plans of Iranian allies and assets, such as militias in Iraq.
Trump withdrew from the Iran deal and reintroded economic sanctions in 2018. Iran announced an ial withdrawal from the agreement in May 2019, and in July, the Iranian government announced that Tehran had begun expanding uranium enrichment beyond the purity threshold it had agreed to. a historic nuclear deal.
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