The US and Israel are reportedly developing plans for major strikes on Iran after the US midterm elections in November.
Citing people familiar with the deliberations, the New York Times reported on Wednesday that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed the possibility of renewed strikes on Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel this week.
Possible targets of the strikes reportedly include Iran’s energy infrastructure, nuclear facilities, and missile and drone arsenal.
US officials have repeatedly asserted that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are teetering on the edge of collapse but are deliberately prolonging the war in an effort to meddle with Republican prospects in the midterm elections.
Once the elections are over, President Donald Trump promised last month, the Iranian regime would quickly capitulate.
“I think the war is going to end immediately after the election,” Trump said. “They can’t hold out any longer.”
Some officials have reportedly argued that resuming attacks for an intense but limited campaign would hasten Iran’s economic collapse, especially as the country has been squeezed by an ongoing US blockade on Iranian ports and economic sanctions campaign.
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