Report: Trump gives preliminary approval for Iran attacks, strikes likely by end of the week
Multiple reports claim US preparing for possible attacks on Iran as early as the end of the week, after President Trump gave preliminary approval for air campaign against Iran’s nuclear program.
The Trump administration is gearing up for an air campaign against Iran’s nuclear program, after President Donald Trump has given preliminary approval for strikes, according to reports by multiple news outlets.
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump told aides on Tuesday night that he has green-lit plans for strikes on Iran, but is waiting on issuing the final order to attack.
The report cited three people familiar with the deliberations in the president’s inner circle.
Trump, they claimed, is pushing off the strikes in order to give Iran an opportunity to agree to his terms and abandon its nuclear program.
“I have ideas on what to do but I haven’t made a final—I like to make the final decision one second before it’s due,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday.
Later on Wednesday, Bloomberg News cited multiple sources who spoke on condition of anonymity saying that senior administration officials are preparing for war with Iran, with some of the sources claiming that the strikes could begin this coming weekend.
ABC News cited an official who said the president has warmed up to the idea of using American warplanes to destroy the Fordow uranium enrichment facility, considered to be the most difficult Iranian nuclear facility to reach.
US Diplomats Evacuated from Israel; Former Hostage Edan Alexander Among Passengers
Edan’s inclusion on today’s military evacuation flight signals not only the U.S. government’s deep concern for his safety, but also the increasingly volatile environment in Israel.
As the security situation in the region continues to deteriorate, a U.S. military aircraft landed in Israel earlier today to evacuate American diplomats and their families.
The precautionary operation, coordinated amid fears of further military escalation, included one particularly notable passenger: 21-year-old Edan Alexander, the Israeli-American soldier who recently survived an excruciating 19-month captivity in Gaza.
Alexander’s harrowing journey began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched its unprecedented assault on Israel.
He was abducted from his IDF base and taken deep into the terror group’s underground tunnel network in Gaza.
There, Alexander was held in inhumane conditions, deprived of food, light, medical care, and contact with the outside world.
His ordeal ended only on May 12, 2025, when he was finally freed in a long-awaited deal that brought a wave of emotional reunions and global relief.
Originally scheduled to return to the United States last weekend, Alexander’s travel plans were unexpectedly altered due to the rapidly evolving security situation.
GOG = RUSSIA / Putin pushes for Iran ceasefire that leaves nuke program in place.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told a group of senior local news editors Thursday that hostilities should end in Iran with Israel being ensured safety and Iran the right to engage in “‘peaceful nuclear activities,” Reuters reported Thursday.
In direct contradiction to reports by the IDF and the International Atomic Energy Agency, he said he “knows” that “nothing happened” to Iran’s nuclear facilities, which he vaguely called “underground factories.”
Therefore, he said, everyone should look for ways “to end hostilities,” and have “all parties to this conflict to come to an agreement … to ensure both Iran’s interests, on the one hand, for its nuclear activities, including peaceful nuclear activities, of course…as well as to ensure the interests of Israel from the point of view of the unconditional security of the Jewish state.”
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Israel Hits Irans Arak Reactor, and Irans Natanz Weapons Facility as Strikes Continue
Israel carried out a wave of overnight airstrikes targeting key components of Iran’s nuclear program and military infrastructure, including an inactive plutonium reactor in Arak and a weapons development site near Natanz, the Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday morning.
A central target was the containment structure of the Arak heavy water reactor, which the IDF said played a key role in plutonium production.
“This attack was part of our broader effort to disrupt the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program,” the IDF said.
Though construction of the Arak reactor in western Iran was halted years ago under international pressure, Israeli intelligence found Iran deliberately avoided completing its conversion to a less dangerous configuration.
“The regime chose not to complete the conversion to maintain pressure on the West,” the IDF said.
Separately, in the central Iranian area of Natanz, Israeli jets hit a facility described as developing unique components used to accelerate nuclear weapons production.
Additional strikes targeted military factories producing ballistic missile parts, air defense systems, and other key technologies.