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Trump wanted to bomb Iran
Donald Trump discussed with his administration a possible attack on a uranium enrichment plant in Iran.
Donald Trump still won’t admit defeat in the presidential election and does nasty things to his likely successor, Joe Biden.
Thus, in his last weeks in office, Trump continues to worsen relations with Iran and impose new sanctions against the state, making it more difficult for Biden to renew the nuclear agreement with Tehran, from which Washington withdrew in 2018.
And recently, according to The New York Times, which cites four sources among current and former US officials, he wanted to bomb Iran.
Uranium
The meeting, which discussed the idea of the attack, was held at the White House on November 12, after IAEA inspectors reported that uranium reserves at the key site of Iran’s nuclear program in Natanz are increasing. actively and are already 12 times higher than the volumes envisaged by the nuclear deal.
According to sources, the current head of the United States proposed to consider options for an airstrike or a cyber attack on the Natanz plant, but Vice President Michael Pence, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and President of the The Armed Forces General Staff, General Mark Milli, dissuaded Trump from taking this step. … Presidential advisers said such actions could lead to a full-scale military conflict in the Middle East.
It’s not the first time
Trump was already pushing the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict in early 2020. On January 3, Iranian General Qasem Suleimani was assassinated in Baghdad. He died as a result of a missile and bomb attack by the United States Air Force in response to the blockade of the United States Embassy in Iraq, which Washington accused Iran of organizing. Suleimani was responsible for the organization of Iranian military operations abroad and was considered one of the most influential people in the hierarchy of power in the Islamic republic. According to Donald Trump, the general should have been eliminated “many years ago.”
The general was considered by many to be the second person after Khamenei in Iran, actually more influential than current President Hassan Rouhani. Thanks to their efforts, Iran achieved a strong increase in its influence in the region.
Bush and Obama did not kill Soleimani for fear of war.
Relations between the United States and Iran deteriorated throughout 2019, after the Trump administration announced it was withdrawing from the “nuclear deal” with Tehran and renewing sanctions.
In the summer of 2019, this led to a tanker war and almost ended in a full-blown armed conflict after the Iranian air force shot down an American drone, then Trump called off the retaliatory strike at the last minute.
In response to Soleimani’s assassination, Iranian forces attacked a US base in Iraq. But this time, Trump did not launch a military operation, only threatened the Iranians with “large, fast and accurate missiles.”
