Trump considers 3-day attack on Iran nuclear facilities

Published May 12th, 2026 - 08:32 GMT
Iran
Iranians rally during a memorial, 40 days after a deadly strike on a children’s school in the southern city of Minab on the first day of the war that killed at least 165 people, most of them children, in Tehran on April 7, 2026. Photo by - / AFP

ALBAWABA - A military strike led by U.S. President Donald Trump, either directly by Washington or by Israel, against Iranian nuclear facilities looms large following Tehran's last response to the U.S. proposal to end the war, which it described as "completely unacceptable."

American political sources told Erem News that Trump needs an action that would impose new rules for reaching a nuclear agreement or achieving his goals of ending or reducing Iran's nuclear threat through military action that would dismantle its program entirely.

The Iranian nuclear file is considered the crux of the negotiating dispute between Iran and the United States. 

The latest American proposal, which Tehran rejected, included a draft agreement to end the nuclear war, the most prominent clause of which was a temporary halt to uranium enrichment, though there was disagreement over the duration of this halt.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Tehran categorically rejected Washington's demand to dismantle its nuclear facilities, deeming this condition non-negotiable in any potential settlement.

A high-ranking political source within the Republican Party says that nuclear facilities will be among the next targets, specifically their infrastructure and power plants, particularly those housing advanced centrifuges used for military-grade uranium enrichment.