Trump’s Iran choice: last-chance diplomacy or a bunker-busting bomb
The US could still become a direct participant in a new conflict in the Middle East, taking on Iran in exactly the kind of war that the president has sworn, in two campaigns, he would avoid.
President Donald Trump is weighing a critical decision in the four-day-old war between Israel and Iran: whether to enter the fray by helping Israel destroy the deeply buried nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow, which only US “bunker busters”, dropped by US B-2 bombers, can reach.
If he decides to go ahead, the United States will become a direct participant in a new conflict in the Middle East, taking on Iran in exactly the kind of war Trump has sworn, in two election campaigns, he would avoid.
