Trump administration engaged in advanced planning for military strike on Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The 2015 Iran nuclear accord, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was agreed between Iran the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the US, Britain, China, France, and Russia), and Germany.
52% : As the Times article makes clear, Trump and his advisers, far from ruling out military action, have merely determined to put it on hold for the time being.
45% : Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian led a push for renewed talks with Washington in recent months, claiming that the election of Trump -- a notorious anti-Iran war-hawk -- could nevertheless provide an opening for sanctions relief.
41% : Trump's special envoy, the billionaire property speculator Steve Witkoff, is to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abas Araghchi to discuss Iran's nuclear programme and possible relief on the brutal sanctions Washington has imposed on Iran since Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the UN-backed Iran nuclear accord in 2018.
39% : The UNSC resolution implementing the agreement allows for a so-called "snapback" of UN sanctions on Iran if Tehran is deemed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be "noncompliant" with the deal or if no new agreement is reached by October 2025.
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32% : Given the ongoing US/NATO war on Russia in Ukraine and Trump's trade war with China, there appears little prospect of Beijing and Moscow consenting to the reintroduction of UN sanctions on Iran at the behest of the Western powers.
28% : For the European imperialists, referred to as the "E3" in the context of talks on Iran's nuclear programme, the threat of reimposing UN sanctions remains one of the few diplomatic tools they possess to influence the current talks, from which they have been all but excluded by Trump.
20% : Trump has set a two-month deadline for reaching a new agreement with Iran, and has repeatedly declared that if the talks fail the US will attack Iran.
15% : Preparations to carry this out have intensified dramatically over the past 18 months, while the US under Biden and then Trump has provided unflinching support for Israel's genocide against the Palestinians.

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