Israel is considering launching a military strike against Iran in the coming days without American support, Western officials have said.
The officials said Israeli strategists have been forced to consider a unilateral attack against Tehran because they fear that either no deal or a weak deal on Iran’s nuclear programme will be reached between Donald Trump and the Islamic Republic.
It comes as the UN nuclear watchdog’s board of governors found that Iran had broken its non-proliferation agreement for the first time in 20 years.
The governors demanded Iran provide answers “without delay” in a long-running investigation into uranium traces found at several locations that Tehran has failed to declare as nuclear sites.
In response to the ruling, the Islamic Republic said it had no choice but to respond by establishing a new enrichment facility in a “secure location”.
