Trump asked aides about striking Iran nuke site

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President Donald Trump asked top aides about the possibility of striking Iran's nuclear facilities. The reported was done by the The New York Times on Monday. During a meeting at the Oval Office last Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, Trump had an options to take action against Iran's main nuclear site in the coming weeks. The senior officials dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike warning him that such an attack could escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of his presidency.

Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said any military action would be met with a crushing response but added that he personally found it unlikely Washington would want to create instability. Our summarised response has always been that any action against the people of Iran will be met with a crushing response. His personal opinion not that of the government spokesman was that there might be attempts but he did not expect that they would want to bring insecurity to the world and region.

According to the Times, the most likely target of such a strike would have been the country's main nuclear fuel plant at Natanz in central Iran.