According to sources, the President of the United States is considering whether to authorize military action in Iran, writes CNN.
The US military is ready to attack Iran as early as this weekend if US President Donald Trump gives the green light.
This is what sources with knowledge of the matter told the American media CNN.
Donald Trump has not made any final decision on whether he will approve a military action in Iran, writes the media.
According to the sources, the US has significantly upgraded the country’s air and naval forces in the Middle East in recent days.
A source says Trump has argued both for and against an attack on Iran and has asked advisers and allies for advice on the best way forward.
It is unclear whether Trump will make the decision before the weekend.
– He (Trump, ed.) spends a lot of time thinking about this, says one of the sources to CNN.
Iran and the US are currently negotiating a nuclear deal. Representatives from the two countries have met in Switzerland in recent days.
Iran’s foreign minister said after the talks that a nuclear deal will not be reached in the near future, but that the path to an agreement has been opened.
Donald Trump has several times threatened to take military action against Iran – first because of the Iranian authorities’ violence against anti-government protesters and then because of the country’s nuclear program.
The US wants Iran to curb its nuclear program. The United States, Israel and several European countries are concerned that the goal of Iran’s nuclear program is to produce a nuclear bomb. Iran denies that this is the case.
Trump said on Friday that the aircraft carrier USS “Gerald R. Ford” – the world’s largest warship – will sail to the Middle East “very soon” to increase pressure on Iran.
– In the event that we do not reach an agreement, we will need it, he said.
CNN writes that the aircraft carrier could arrive in the Middle East as early as this weekend.
The huge vessel is currently in the Atlantic Ocean close to Morocco and, according to AFP, sailed from the Caribbean.
Another aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, is among 12 US ships already in the Middle East.
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