Trump Has Been Offered Options For Striking The Regime In Iran

Amid ongoing mass protests.

US President Donald Trump's entourage has briefed him on options for military strikes on Iran amid ongoing protests in the country and attempts by authorities to quell them. This is reported by The New York Times.

Trump has not yet made a final decision. The president has been presented with a range of options, including strikes on non-military targets in Tehran, sources said on condition of anonymity.

Protests in Iran began in late December in response to the currency crisis, but have since spread and intensified, with many Iranians advocating sweeping changes to the country's authoritarian system of governance. Iranian authorities have threatened a violent crackdown on the demonstrations, and dozens of protesters have already been killed, according to human rights organizations. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the government "will not back down" in the face of large-scale protests.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to use lethal force against the Iranian government for suppressing demonstrations and said on Jan. 9 that Iran was "in serious trouble."

"I have made it very clear: If they start killing people, as they have done in the past, we will intervene. We will hit them very hard - where it hurts. And that doesn't mean bringing in ground troops, but it means hitting them very, very hard - where it hurts. We don't want it to come to that," Trump said.

High-ranking U.S. officials said that at least some of the options presented to Trump regarding the situation in Iran are directly related to elements of the Iranian security forces that have been cracking down on growing protests. At the same time, U.S. officials stressed the need to avoid the effect that military strikes could have the opposite effect of rallying Iranian society behind the government or provoking retaliatory attacks that threaten U.S. military and diplomatic personnel in the region.

One senior U.S. military official said commanders in the region would need more time before a possible attack to reinforce U.S. military positions and prepare defenses in case of retaliatory strikes from the sides Officials said any military action would have to balance fulfilling Trump's promise to punish the government in Tehran for its crackdown on protests with preventing the situation from escalating further.

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