Trump's team considers airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities – WSJ – Politics
US President-elect Donald Trump is weighing options to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, including the possibility of pre-emptive airstrikes. It would be a move that would break a longstanding policy of containing Tehran through diplomacy and sanctions.
This is stated in the publication of The Wall Street Journal.
The option of a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities is now being considered more seriously by some members of Trump's transition team, who are weighing the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, an ally of Tehran, the future of US forces in the Syrian region and Israel's destruction of proxy rebels Hezbollah and Hamas. .
Iran's weakening position in the region and recent revelations about Tehran's rapidly developing nuclear program have fueled sensitive domestic debates, officials in the transition…
