Washington-SANA
Current and former US officials revealed that President Donald Trump asked his advisers about the possibility of targeting a major nuclear site in Iran in the coming weeks, but they discouraged him from this idea, in continuation of his aggressive policy despite his arrival at the end of his presidential term.
According to the officials quoted by the New York Times, Trump discussed the matter with his advisers at a meeting in the Oval Office last Thursday.
The newspaper added that several advisers, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, had warned him that a military strike on Iranian facilities could easily trigger a full-scale conflict in the final weeks of his presidency.
The newspaper pointed out that any possible attack, whether missile or cyber, will almost certainly focus on the Natanz nuclear facility.
Trump spent the four years of his presidency adopting an aggressive policy towards Iran, as he withdrew from the nuclear agreement negotiated by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama in 2018 in defiance of the will of the international community and violation of international decisions in this regard and the imposition of economic sanctions on a wide range of Iranian personalities and institutions.
