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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Donald Trump has to leave the White House on January 20. You can leave a military conflict with Iran to your successor Joe Biden. After a new nuclear report casts doubt on Iran’s transparency, the president asks his advisers about strike options.
Donald Trump is apparently considering waging war with Iran before leaving the White House. The “New York Times” reports that the US president-elect asked his closest advisers in the Oval Office last Thursday what options he had for attacking Iranian nuclear facilities in the coming weeks. According to the information, the date was set after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its latest report on Iran the day before.
Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller were present at the meeting, according to the report. You have advised Trump not to order a military strike against Iran because it could provoke a major conflict in the final weeks of the presidency. Newly elected President Joe Biden will take office on January 20, 2021.
IAEA awaits explanations
In its quarterly nuclear report, the IAEA announced that Iran had not yet explained how uranium particles entered a facility that was not declared a nuclear site. The prints had been discovered last year. Its chemical signature is said to be similar to that of the Pakistani centrifuges that Iran imported. Pakistan is one of the nine world nuclear powers.
According to the IAEA, Iran also continues to enrich uranium and now has twelve times the amount allowed in the nuclear deal. In 2015, the state made a commitment to transparency. The deal is supposed to prevent the country ruled by Shiite clerics from building an atomic bomb.
According to the NYT, Trump’s advisers believe that a military strike against Iran will be out of the question after the meeting in the Oval Office. Consequently, the outgoing president could alternatively punish Iranian allies, such as the militias in Iraq. If there were an attack, the Natanz nuclear facility is the most likely target. Iran has been enriching uranium there since at least 2002.
The United States unilaterally withdrew from the international nuclear treaty in 2018 and has since imposed numerous sanctions on Iran, which are putting pressure on the country’s economy. In return, Tehran gradually cut its obligations under the agreement. The remaining contractual partners, including Britain, France and Germany, hope there will be a new diplomatic attempt at the nuclear conflict after Joe Biden takes office.
