Daily US Times: According to several big shot US media reports, President Donald Trump asked senior advisers last Thursday about potential options for attacking the main nuclear site of Iran.
Officials were cited as saying that the advisers warned him that military action could spark a broader conflict.
The White House has not commented on discussing attacking Iran nuclear site of the meeting.
It took place a day after the global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile was 12 times what was permitted under a 2015 nuclear deal.
The landmark deal saw the US and five other world powers give Iran relief from crippling economic sanctions in exchange for limits on sensitive activities to show it was not developing nuclear weapons.
In 2018, President Donald Trump abandoned the deal saying it was “defective at its core”, and reinstated US sanctions on Iran in an attempt to force the country’s leaders to negotiate a replacement.
But Iran refused to do so and retaliated by rolling back a number of key commitments in the deal, including those on the production of enriched uranium.
Joe Biden, US President-elect, who will take office on 20 January, has said he will consider rejoining the nuclear deal so long as Iran returns to full compliance and commits to further negotiations.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published a report last Wednesday, saying that Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium had reached 2,442.9kg (5,385.6lb) – far above the 202.8kg limit set under the nuclear deal and theoretically enough to produce two nuclear weapons.
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