This is about preventive attacks that can put a spoke in the wheel of Tehran's nuclear program - but which are likely to increase tensions in the Middle East, writes, among others, The Washington Post.
The warnings can be found in a series of intelligence reports published at the end of Joe Biden's presidency and the beginning of Donald Trump's. They warn of potential Israeli attacks on the nuclear facilities Fordow and Natanz during the first half of the year.
Brian Hughes, spokesman for the White House Security Council, does not want to comment on the information but says that President Trump "has been clear" that he will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
He prefers to negotiate a peaceful agreement regarding the USA's long-standing problems with the regime in Iran, but he is not willing to wait indefinitely, says Hughes to The Washington Post.
The international community has long feared that the arch-conservative Islamic republic is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran has claimed that its nuclear energy program is for civilian use and insists that it has the right to enrich uranium for nuclear power.
An earlier agreement between Iran and Western great powers, abbreviated as JCPOA in English, broke down in 2018 when the USA, under Trump's previous term, pulled out of it.
