{"id":216730,"date":"2020-11-18T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216730"},"modified":"2020-11-23T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:16:32","slug":"trump-sought-options-for-possible-strike-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216730","title":{"rendered":"Trump sought options for possible strike on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction \u2013 Nov 17, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Trump-Preps-Troops-For-Middle-East-Iran-Showdown-What-You-NEED-To-Know.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-190260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Trump-Preps-Troops-For-Middle-East-Iran-Showdown-What-You-NEED-To-Know-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Trump-Preps-Troops-For-Middle-East-Iran-Showdown-What-You-NEED-To-Know-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Trump-Preps-Troops-For-Middle-East-Iran-Showdown-What-You-NEED-To-Know-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Trump-Preps-Troops-For-Middle-East-Iran-Showdown-What-You-NEED-To-Know-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Trump-Preps-Troops-For-Middle-East-Iran-Showdown-What-You-NEED-To-Know.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5>It looks as if the U.S. is not going to launch military strikes on Iran, at least not just yet.<\/h5>\n<h5>President Trump had reportedly asked his advisers for \u201coptions\u201d after international inspectors informed United Nations members that Iran had significantly increased its stockpile of nuclear material. Fortunately, his advisers persuaded him against launching a military strike as punishment.<\/h5>\n<h5>Nonetheless we strongly suspect that the prospect of outright military conflict with Iran will be kept on a back burner.<\/h5>\n<h5>Right now world leaders have enough on their hands dealing with Covid-19, the resultant economic downturn and proposed mass vaccinations. However, if the public won\u2019t meekly accept mass-vaccinations, and whatever else is planned, then the Globalist planners will demand that tensions with Iran be brought back to the boil.<\/h5>\n<h5>That isn\u2019t going to happen just yet because mass vaccinations have to be rolled out and that could take another year or two. But if during that time resistance to mass vaccination grows, then expect the prospect of a cataclysmic war with Iran \u2013 and maybe Russia and China too \u2013 to loom ever larger.<\/h5>\n<h5>We are confident that this will happen &#8212; no matter who is in the Oval Office. Ed.<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Trump was \u2018talked out of\u2019 launching a strike on Iran in punishment for &#8216;hiding its nuclear weapons program&#8217; last week after his top advisers warned it could trigger a war &#8211; but he is &#8216;still mulling options to punish Tehran&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>President Trump asked senior advisers about taking action against Iran&#8217;s main nuclear site at a meeting last Thursday, the New York Times reported Monday\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Four current and former US officials said Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were among those present at the meeting\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The meeting took place a day after international inspectors informed UN members that Iran had significantly increased its stockpile of nuclear material<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Trump&#8217;s advisers talked him out of launching a strike by warning that such action could trigger a wider conflict with Iran, weeks before Joe Biden takes power\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The strike likely would have targeted Iran&#8217;s main nuclear site, Natanz<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Megan Sheets for Daily Mail and Associated Press \u2013 Nov 17, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">President <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/donald_trump\/index.html\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0considered launching a strike against <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\"><strong>Iran<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s main nuclear facility last week before senior advisers talked him out of the dramatic action, according to two new reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Trump asked top national security aides including Vice President <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/mike-pence\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mike Pence<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Secretary of State <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/mike-pompeo\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mike Pompeo<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C Miller and Chairman of Joint Chiefs Mark Milley about the potential strike at a meeting in the Oval Office last Thursday, the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/16\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-nuclear.html?referringSource=articleShare\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">New York Times<\/span><\/strong><\/a> reported Monday, citing four current and former US officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The meeting took place a day after international inspectors informed United Nations members that Iran had significantly increased its stockpile of nuclear material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Trump&#8217;s advisers ultimately dissuaded him from launching a strike by warning that such action could trigger a wider conflict with Iran, the Times sources said, weeks before Trump is due to hand over power to Joe Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They said any strike, either by missile or cyber, would likely have targeted Iran&#8217;s main nuclear enrichment facility, Natanz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A separate source confirmed Times&#8217; account of the meeting to Reuters, saying: &#8216;[Trump] asked for options. They gave him the scenarios and he ultimately decided not to go forward.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The International Atomic Energy Agency, a watchdog for the UN, reported in a confidential document last Wednesday that Iran&#8217;s uranium stockpile is now 12 times larger than the limit set under the nuclear accord Trump pulled out of in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The agency said that as of November 2 Iran\u00a0had a stockpile of 2,442.9 kilograms (5,385.7 pounds) of low-enriched uranium, up from 2,105.4 kilograms (4,641.6 pounds) reported on August 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The nuclear deal signed in 2015 with the US, Germany, France, Britain, China and Russia, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), allows Iran only to keep a stockpile of 202.8 kilograms (447 pounds).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The IAEA reported that Iran has also been continuing to enrich uranium to a purity of up to 4.5 percent, higher than the 3.67 percent allowed under the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Natanz, also called the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant, is located about 200 miles south of Tehran. Most of the complex is underground and it is subject to monitoring by IAEA under the nuclear accord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In its latest report the IAEA also said that Iran had barred its inspectors from accessing another site where there was evidence of past nuclear activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8956013\/Trump-talked-launching-missile-strike-Irans-main-nuclear-site-advisers-week.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately the president was \u2018talked out of&#8217; launching a military strike on Iran, after reports emerged that it had significantly increased its stockpile of nuclear material<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216734,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216730\/revisions\/216734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}