Nadene Goldfoot
In January of 2020, Iran had declared that it will no longer abide by any of the restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal.
Haaretz reports that "U.S. President Donald Trump had asked his advisers last week whether it would be possible to strike Iran's main nuclear site in the final weeks of his presidency, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Senior advisers convinced him not to follow through, warning of an escalation. After Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, laid out the risks, the officials left last week’s meeting satisfied that a missile strike was off the table, the Times reported, citing unnamed administration officials.
According to the New York Times report, US officials said that inspectors from a nuclear watchdog had reported Wednesday that Iran's stockpile of nuclear-material increased significantly, and that Iran had barred their access from another site where there is evidence that nuclear activity was conducted in the past. At the Natanz nuclear facility, the IAEA said, the uranium stockpile is 12 times larger than permitted by the Iran nuclear deal, from which Trump withdrew in 2018. "Evidence had shown that they were not obeying the rules and had gone ahead with their own plans.
Tensions have been high over the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by the US in Baghdad, Iraq. Reports from Baghdad say the US embassy compound there was targeted in an attack on Sunday evening. A source told the BBC that four rounds of "indirect fire " had been launched in the direction of the embassy. There were no reports of casualties. Earlier, Iraqi MPs had passed a non-binding resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country after the general's killing in a drone strike at Baghdad airport on Friday.
Next to Iran's Supreme Leader, Qasem Soleimani was arguably the most powerful figure in the Islamic republic.
As head of its military abroad known as the Quds Force, Soleimani was the mastermind behind the country's activities across in the Middle East, and its real foreign minister when it came to matters of war and peace.
He was widely considered an architect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against rebels in Syria, the rise of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State group, and many battles beyond. Soleimani was assassinated in a targeted U.S. drone strike on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad,
Resource:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51001167 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-talked-out-of-attacking-irans-nuclear-facilities-last-week-report-11605577420
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50980093
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trump-considered-possibility-of-strike-on-iran-nuclear-program-report-says-1.9312968?utm_source=Push_Notification&utm_medium=web_push&utm_campaign=General
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