President Donald Trump was mulling whether to join Israel’s air campaign against Iran as he met his National Security Council on Tuesday.
The meeting in the White House Situation Room lasted around one hour and 20 minutes, a White House official said on condition of anonymity, without giving more details.
The meeting comes after Trump said the United States would not kill Iran's supreme leader "for now" and demanded Tehran's "unconditional" surrender, as U.S. ally Israel traded fire with its arch foe for a fifth day.
U.S. officials said Trump was keeping all options on the table, while insisting that Washington had no hand in the campaign so far.
The most likely option under consideration by Trump would be the use of giant U.S. "bunker-buster" bombs against Iran's deeply buried Fordow nuclear facility that Israel's bombs cannot reach.
