Trump Spurned Pentagon Plan for Weeks-Long Iran Nuclear Strikes, NBC Says

Former U.S. President Donald Trump turned down a Pentagon proposal for an expansive air campaign against Iran’s nuclear facilities, NBC News reported, citing unnamed officials familiar with the deliberations. The rejected plan envisioned strikes that would have unfolded over several weeks and targeted a wider range of Iranian nuclear assets than earlier limited operations. The report did not specify the exact timing of the internal discussion, but indicated it occurred during Trump’s tenure in the White House. The disclosure sheds new light on policy debates inside the previous administration as tensions with Tehran escalated after the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear accord and the reimposition of sanctions.