A general view of the city horizon in Tehran, Iran
Israel has not ruled out an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months despite the fact that President Donald Trump, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that the United States was not willing to support such a family movement and Israliar.
Israeli officials have promised to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and Netanyahu has insisted that any negotiation with Iran should lead to the complete dismantling of its nuclear program.
American and Iranian negotiators are scheduled for a second round of preliminary nuclear conversations in Rome on Saturday.
Around the last months, Israel has proposed to the Trump administration a series of options to attack Iran’s facilities, including some with deadlines of spring and summer late, the sources said. The plans include a combination of air attacks and command operations that vary in severity and could delay Tehran’s ability to arm their nuclear program for only months or a year or more, fountains said.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Trump told Netanyahu at a White House meeting earlier this month that Washington wanted to prioritize diplomatic conversations with Tehran and was not willing to support a strike in that of the country.
But Israeli officials now believe that their military could launch a limited strike against Iran that would require less support in the United States. Such attack would be significant closer than those that Israel initially proposed.
It is not clear if Israel would advance with such an attack, especially with conversations on a nuclear agreement. Such movement would probably alienate Trump and could risk a broader support from the United States to Israel.
Parts of the plans were previously presented last year to the Biden Administration, two former officials of the Biden Administration to Reuters said. Almost everything required significant support from the United States through direct military intervention or intelligence exchange. Israel has also requested that Washington helps Israel to defend themselves in case Iran will retaliate.
In response to a request for comments, the US National Security Council. Reuters to the comments Trump made on Thursday, when he told reporters that he has not exhausted Israel from an attack, but was not “hurried” to support military action against Tehran.
“I think Iran has the opportunity to have a great country and live happily without death,” Trump said. “That is my first option. If that is a second option, I think it would be very bad for Iran, and I think Iran wants to talk.”
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office did not respond immediately to a request for comments. A senior Israeli official told Reuters that a decision on an Iranian strike has not yet been made.
A senior Iranian security official said that Tehran was aware of Israeli planning and that an attack would cause “a hard and unwavering response from Iran.”
“We have intelligence from reliable sources that Israel is planning an important attack against Iran’s nuclear sites. This voice of dissatisfaction with diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran’s nuclear program, and also of Netanyahus,” the need for conflict.
Biden administration setback
Netanyahu received the rejection of the Biden administration when he presented an earlier version of the plan. The former Biden officials said Netanyahu wanted the United States to take the lead in air attacks, but the White House Biden told Israel that he did not believe that a strike was prudent unless Tehran moved to accelerate his enrichment of nuclear.
Biden officials also questioned to what extent Israel’s military could carry out such an attack.
Former officials and experts have long said that Israel needs significant American military support, and weapons, to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and reserves, some of the underground facilities.
While the most limited military STIKE is considering that Wolde requires lower direct assistance, participulate in the form of American bombers who drop the bunker ammunition that can reach the deeply buried facilities, Israel would need a promise of Washedton attacked by Teherán in the sequelae, the sources said.
Any attack would wear risks. Military and nuclear experts say that even with mass fire power, a strike would be likely to temporarily delay a program that the West says it aims to produce a nuclear bomb, although Iran denies it.
Israeli officials told Washington in the week that they do not believe that conversations with Iran should advance to the stage of treatment with the guarantee that Tehran will not have the ability to create a nuclear weapon.
“This can be done by agreement, but only if this completion is libio style: they enter, the facilities explode, they dismantle the entire team, under US supervision,” Netanyahu said after his conversations with Trump. “The second possibility is … that they (Iran) drag the conversations and then it is the military option.”
From Israel’s perspective, this can be a good time for a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Iran Hamas Allies in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon has been beaten by Israel since Gaza’s War began, while the Hutí movement in Yemen has been attacked by US air attacks. Israel also severely damaged Iran’s air defense systems in a fire exchange in October 2024.
A senior Israeli official, who spoke with journalists earlier this month, acknowledged that there was some urgency if the goal was to launch a strike before they will rebuild their aerial defenses. But the senior official refused to declare any timeline for a possible Israeli action and said that discussing this would be “useless.”
Posted on April 19, 2025