Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program
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.
Mr. Trump asked his top national security aides what options were available and how to respond, officials said.
After Mr. Pompeo and General Milley described the potential risks of military escalation, officials left the meeting believing a missile attack inside Iran was off the table, according to administration officials with knowledge of the meeting.
Mr. Trump might still be looking at ways to strike Iranian assets and allies, including militias in Iraq, officials said. A smaller group of national security aides had met late Wednesday to discuss Iran, the day before the meeting with the president.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 15 | November 23, 2020 1:43 PM
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So when people said we didn't need the Iran Nuclear Deal and without it the only other option wasnt a war...they were lying.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 17, 2020 3:30 PM
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Wow, what an un-surprise. Trump's fuckery is neverending. 1/20/21 can't come soon enough.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 2 | November 17, 2020 4:10 PM
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Pompousass, Netenyahoo and Bid Salmon get together to talk about war with IRAN. I'm sure it's nothing.
A Christian, a Jew and an Arab walk into a war. The media says, "Hey why the long face?"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 4 | November 23, 2020 12:58 PM
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This article comes from what source?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 23, 2020 1:02 PM
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The trolls on this site keep harping on Biden as a "warmonger" and Trump as the president who kept us out of war. Where will that talking point go if he ends his miserable presidency starting a war with Iran?
Btw the Iranians' nuclear program wouldn't be growing if Trump hadn't scrapped the deal, thereby releasing them from its obligations.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 23, 2020 1:02 PM
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[quote]thereby releasing them from its obligations.
Iran's ONLY obligation is to its hegemony and mischief in the region. Which posters on this thread are happy to ignore.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 23, 2020 1:06 PM
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Well, that would be a very stupid fucking troll.
I've said for years that considering who Trump was surrounded by including his vomit-inducing, cockroach SIL, Trump is a neocon on steroids. John Bolton -another cockroach- was desperate to get his war with Iran. People forget how many incidents they tried to blame on Iran and the US also did things to goad Iran into starting something. The effort was so transparent that Americans weren't buying it and they never had the support they needed to start a war. The imbecile was trying to do the bidding of the MIC, Israel and S. Arabia - all warmongering cunts.
Biden isn't a warmonger, he's just the garden variety AIPAC-ass-kissing shit when it comes to FP. He hasn't learned. He's stuck in the past and has been a contributor to a failed and biased foreign policy which ignores basic human rights.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 23, 2020 1:12 PM
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[quote]Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program
Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Distract the Nation From What a Big Fucking Loser He Is.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 23, 2020 1:15 PM
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trump isn't doing jack shit
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 23, 2020 1:22 PM
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If we’re at war, then he’ll declare martial lawso he stays in office. Again, his villainy is so transparent. Like a toddler.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 23, 2020 1:26 PM
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What a joke it is to call this guy "president".
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 23, 2020 1:30 PM
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he will declare marshall's law
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 23, 2020 1:40 PM
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[quote] Iran's ONLY obligation is to its hegemony and mischief in the region.
And you ignore all the zealots Saudi Arabia has sent across the region
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 23, 2020 1:43 PM
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[quote] If we’re at war, then he’ll declare martial lawso he stays in office.
Washington DC will burn if that happens. We can all see through his nonsense
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 23, 2020 1:43 PM
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