Posted on 11/17/2020 6:57:11 AM PST by SJackson
President Donald Trump asked senior advisers last Thursday about potential options for attacking Iran's main nuclear site, US media report.
The advisers warned him that military action could spark a broader conflict, officials were cited as saying.
The White House has not commented on the accounts of the meeting.
It took place a day after the global nuclear watchdog said Iran's enriched uranium stockpile was 12 times what was permitted under a 2015 nuclear deal.
The landmark accord saw the US and five other world powers give Iran relief from crippling economic sanctions in return for limits on sensitive activities to show it was not developing nuclear weapons.
President Trump abandoned the deal in 2018, saying it was "defective at its core", and reinstated US sanctions in an attempt to force Iran's leaders to negotiate a replacement.
They have refused to do so and retaliated by rolling back a number of key commitments, including those on the production of enriched uranium.
US President-elect Joe Biden, 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.
Last Wednesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published a report 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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Only 12 times what they're allowed. See, they're following the deal. At least it's intent. All the more reason for Joe to remove sanctions. Joe and Barak probably figured they'd have 25 times what they're allowed by now.
Let me guess, “un-named sources”.
“Officials”
LOL
Trump 'asked for options on strike on Iran nuclear site'
Long overdue!
Another BS story. So, he asked for options. Isn’t that what presidents always do? I will file this one under “WHO CARES”...
US media report
They got to the point that just cut out the middleman entirely. They are their own sources.
Yes, just doing his job. If Obama/Biden didn’t have plans they were derelict in their duty.
There has been an effort afoot to goad Trump into a war with Iran for the last 4 years. I beleave they are still at it.
Joe Biden, who will[might] take office on 20 January, has said he will[would] consider rejoining the nuclear deal so long as Iran returns to full compliance and commits to further negotiations.
With negotiators like Obama, Biden, and Kerry, God help us. And would he/they insist that Iran destroy their material down to the proper levels as a precondition to any further negotiations? Not a chance.
Really, they don’t have a delivery system...so its not our problem. //sarc
I bet the folks in Israel are keeping a close eye on how much material they have. And the jews don’t give a $$$$ about what the rest of the world thinks about them.
They could ask Biden what he thinks about this, except for the fact that they are not allowed to ask him anything and Biden doesn’t think about anything.
Duh.....”Psst! Hey Israel! top secret msg.......hit Iran’s nuc plant and we’ll cover you........”
Why wouldn’t a president want to know all their options on something like this.
And I would laugh myself silly, if Tehran accidentally nuked Damascus, Madina, and or Mecca. While scarry for sure, it would also be hard not to laugh, if they blew up the Temple Mount.
If Trump loses this election then he needs to leave craters in Iran where the nuclear weapons plants are and kill their leaders as Biden will only send billions to our enemies to make bombs to kill millions.
No, Nazzi will take office after Jan 20.
Isaiah 17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Prophecy about Damascus
17 The pronouncement concerning Damascus:
“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin.
2 The cities of Aroer are abandoned; They will be for herds to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them.
3 The [c]fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, And sovereignty from Damascus And the remnant of Aram; They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,” Declares the Lord of armies.
4 Now on that day the glory of Jacob will fade, And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 It will be like the reaper gathering the standing grain, As his arm harvests the ears, Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain In the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree, Two or three olives on the topmost branch, Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree, Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 On that day man will look to his Maker And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, Even the Asherim and incense altars.
9 On that day their strong cities will be like abandoned places in the forest, Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; And the land will be a desolation.
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation And have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.
11 On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will flee On a day of illness and incurable pain.
12 Oh, the uproar of many peoples Who roar like the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!
13 The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, But He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, And be chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before a gale.
14 At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning they are gone. This will be the fate of those who plunder us And the lot of those who pillage us.
Actually Trump probably put that out there to keep the Mullahs guessing.
Iran ‘returns to it’s compliance’????
Kerry didn’t even try to see if they were “In Compliance”.
IMO, Iran Has NEVER been in compliance...
Kerry didn’t even try to see if they were “In Compliance”.
Exactly, thus they were not not in compliance. Should there be a Biden administration they'll suddenly be not not in compliance. Sanctions will be off, though they'll have to invest a bit with Hunter.
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