US President Donald Trump’s administration is crafting a post-Iran war strategy to build a regional alignment of US allies to contain Iran, while also expanding the Abraham Accords, the Axios news site reported on Friday.
The report said that in private conversations, Trump has told people that he’s working on “something much bigger” in the Middle East after the war with Iran.
The plan is still in its initial stages of being formed, and the administration doesn’t plan to implement it until after the October 27 Israeli election and November 3 US midterms, Axios said, citing two US officials and two other sources with knowledge of the matter.
“They are cooking it, but it is not yet cooked,” a source told Axios, adding that it was expected to take another few weeks to finalize the proposal.
Framed as a postwar strategy, the plan ostensibly will require an end to the conflict with Iran, which the US has struggled to achieve on its terms after launching the war with Israel over six months ago.
