U.S. Intelligence sources revealed to the Washington Post that Israel is “likely to attempt a strike on Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months in a preemptive attack that would set back Iran’s nuclear program by weeks or perhaps months.” The findings “are included in multiple intelligence reports spanning the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the Trump administration, none more comprehensive than an early January report produced by the intelligence directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency.”
While Israeli officials did not comment on the intelligence findings, White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes stated that “While he {President Trump} prefers negotiating a resolution to American’s long-standing issues with the Iranian regime peacefully, he will not wait indefinitely if Iran isn’t willing to deal, and soon.”
U.S. support for an Israeli strike on Iran has long been considered a military necessity to ensure the destruction of deeply-buried facilities that could be targeted, and could reportedly entail “aerial refueling as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.”