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US President Donald Trump was deterred from a military strike on a nuclear facility in Iran by senior US officials, the sources told The New York Times.
US President Donald Trump was about to launch a military strike on a facility in Iran related to that country’s nuclear program. This was reported on November 16 by The New York Times, citing four sources.
This issue was discussed on November 12 at a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House. In particular, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Acting Pentagon Chiefs, Christopher Miller, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Millie, attended.
The interlocutors of the publication affirm that Trump was interested in options of action against a nuclear installation. He was warned that a military strike could widen the scope of the conflict “in the last weeks of the presidency.”
The New York Times suggests that it is a facility in the Iranian city of Netenz, where, according to the IAEA, uranium reserves are 12 times higher than allowed agreements. Supposedly, they can launch a missile or a cyber attack against it.
On July 20, 2015, the UN Security Council approved an agreement aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions. Tehran has guaranteed that it will abandon the idea of creating nuclear weapons. After 10 years, if Iran complied with the terms of the nuclear deal, all restrictions and conditions contained in the UN resolution had to end.
On May 8, 2018, Trump announced that his country was withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran, considering it “catastrophic”. According to Trump, Tehran misled the world community by hiding the continuation of the investigation in the field of nuclear weapons.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said he was happy with the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal. He called Washington a “problem partner” and said it will continue to work on a deal with France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia. Rouhani also warned that Tehran could resume uranium enrichment on an industrial scale.
On August 6, 2018, Trump signed a decree that renewed the sanctions against Iran that were in place before the signing of the nuclear agreement. They entered into force on November 5.
On May 8, 2019, Iran announced its refusal to fulfill part of its obligations under the nuclear deal. On July 1, it was learned that this country had exceeded the low enriched uranium reserve limit, established by the provisions of the JCPOA.
In August 2020 Iran provides the IAEA access to two nuclear facilities.
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