11/17/2020 8:54 AM
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Updated 11/17/2020 8:54 AM
Two months before leaving office, US President Donald Trump asked his top advisers about the possibility of
attacking
Iran's
nuclear facilities
, The New York Times reported Monday.
During a meeting in the Oval Office last Thursday, the outgoing president asked several of his top aides, including Vice President Mike Pence;
the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo;
and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, "had a chance to take action against Iran's main nuclear site in the coming weeks," the newspaper said.
Senior officials "dissuaded the president from going ahead with a military attack" and warned him that an attack of that magnitude could escalate into a larger conflict in the final weeks of his presidency, the Times wrote.
During a meeting in the Oval Office, the outgoing president consulted with several of his top aides.
Photo: Reuters
According to this information, Trump asked the question after a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran was
still storing uranium.
According to the Times, the most likely target of this attack was
Natanz
, where, according to the IAEA, "Tehran's uranium reserves were 12 times larger than allowed by the nuclear deal that Trump abandoned in 2018", three years later. of its signature with the intention of curbing Iran's nuclear capacity.
Iran has long been
Trump's black beast
.
The president reimposed sanctions on Tehran and then tightened them once the nuclear program was abandoned.
The agreement's European partners have struggled to keep the deal afloat despite Trump's efforts to sink it, and they hope that the arrival of Democrat Joe Biden in the White House will
change
Washington's
focus
on Iran.
The Trump administration has vowed to step up punitive measures, which some critics see as an attempt to build a "wall of sanctions" that is
difficult for Biden to tear down
once he takes office.
AFP
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