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After incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz vowed that the next U.S. administration would reinstate the maximum pressure policy on the Iranian regime, The Wall Street Journal on Thursday reported that pre-emptive strikes on the regime’s nuclear facilities are also being weighed by President-elect Donald Trump.
According to the report, the transition team is weighing several options for how to deal with the regime, which reportedly tried to assassinate Trump and, in recent months, has sharply increased its stockpile of fissile material.
A member of the transition team said the United States must take more action against Iran, which “is actively trying to kill President Trump.”
“That certainly influences everybody’s thinking when it comes to what the relationship is out the gate,” the source added.
A report from the Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) recently warned that “Iran now has enough fissile material to make more than a dozen nuclear weapons,” but has not yet decided to proceed.
Despite Trump’s aversion to starting new wars and his stated desire to reduce U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East, the WSJ said a military option to prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb has received more serious consideration in recent weeks.
The regime lost several of its terror proxies over the past months, as Israel has nearly destroyed Hamas in Gaza, decapitated Hezbollah in Lebanon, and seen the Assad regime in Syria collapse under the pressure of a rebel onslaught.
When asked about the possibility of war with Iran, Trump said that “anything can happen” during an interview with Time that was published on Thursday. “It’s a very volatile situation,” he added. More Here
