President Donald Trump is weighing a severe new wave of U.S. and joint Israeli airstrikes against Iran, focusing on energy infrastructure, while Tehran vows to target regional American and Israeli assets.
The two sides are weighing their options for what to do next, with Iran reportedly vowing to go after energy infrastructure should the United States and Israel launch any strikes over the weekend, a state-affiliated news agency claimed Friday.
A senior security official told Tasnim News Agency they’ve prepared ‘extensive response plans’ to what he called the ‘madness’ of US and Israeli strikes, adding they have ‘the capacity and the will’ to pull it off.
Meanwhile, multiple reports suggested Donald Trump was in varying states of decision-making regarding attacks on Iran’s own energy infrastructure.
The White House on Friday signaled that President Donald Trump is weighing carrying out new strikes on Iran as the US presses for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and abide by terms set out in a truce agreement the two sides forged last month only to quickly collapse.
The President was bombastic at a televised meeting with his Cabinet at Camp David.
‘We will be hitting them very hard and you know at some point, they’re going to say, ‘We just can’t take it anymore.’
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt expressed the US administration’s frustration anew, charging that Tehran last month signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. on a truce but then quickly ‘broke it, shot at commercial ships, and killed American soldiers.’
