The Big Apple newspaper reports that last week, the president asked his main collaborators for the possibility of striking the Natanz plant. Counselors dissuaded him by pointing out that the operation could quickly lead to a wider conflict.
Among the moves contemplated by US President Donald Trump for the last months of his mandate, there was also that of launching a "military attack" against an Iranian nuclear site. Reporting the background is the New York Times , which explains that the outgoing president polled his collaborators last week on the possibility of a bombing, but was "dissuaded" by his advisors ( THE USA SPECIAL 2020 ).
Trump dissuaded from his advisers
According to the newspaper Trump, on November 12, he asked several of his collaborators - including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chief of Staff Mark Milley - if there was "the possibility of taking action against" this site. in the next weeks". Trump's advisers, the New York Times continues, stressed that such an operation could quickly lead to a wider conflict.
Iran and the resumption of nuclear power after the breakdown of the agreement
According to the Big Apple newspaper, Trump most likely wanted to hit the Natanz site. The president's interest follows a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) according to which Tehran continues to accumulate uranium: at the Natanz site, the accumulated uranium stocks would be 12 times higher than what is allowed by the desired nuclear agreement by Barack Obama and later canceled by Trump. The IAEA has estimated the amount of stock to be about two and a half tons of uranium with a low level of enrichment, but to produce atomic bombs the uranium would have to be raised to a higher degree of enrichment, a process that takes several months of work. The amount of uranium that Iran has resumed processing, however, is far less than the reserves the country had accumulated prior to the 2015 nuclear deal.
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