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\n President Donald Trump has been receiving options for expanding the military operation in Iran, according to two people familiar with the matter, including during a Situation Room meeting on Tuesday that centered on ways to intensify efforts to loosen Iran\u2019s grip on the Strait of Hormuz.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Trump has publicly said he intends to strike Iran harder over the coming week, including threats on civilian infrastructure and potentially energy targets. Behind the scenes, he has been discussing various scenarios for future military action with senior officials, hoping to identify ways to pressure Iran into submitting to US demands after existing efforts have failed to bring Tehran to heel.\n <\/p>\n

\n Over the past five days, the US has carried out daily strikes on Iranian positions along the Strait of Hormuz, including Wednesday on tiny Greater Tunb Island in the Strait of Hormuz, which has acted as a base for the Iranian military.\n <\/p>\n

\n Officials said the strikes are intended to degrade Iran\u2019s ability to prevent commercial vessels from transiting the waterway. But destroying targets like missile launchers and radars could also lay the groundwork for the larger US military operations Trump has been mulling, officials said.\n <\/p>\n

\n According to the two officials, Trump is now weighing an operation to take Kharg Island, the critical Iranian export hub, and to bomb underground complexes at Pickaxe Mountain, believed to be connected to Iran\u2019s nuclear program.\n <\/p>\n

\n He affirmed his interest in both targets during interviews this week, though he suggested a ground operation to take Kharg may fall to another country.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe have other people that will do the ground campaign for us,\u201d he said on Fox News, without explaining further.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Trump has previously offered public and private indications he\u2019s ready to escalate, only to back off. But he has grown frustrated that Iran is not capitulating on his nuclear red lines and continues to restrict traffic through the strait.\n <\/p>\n

\n The president has oscillated between casting doubt on Iran\u2019s willingness to negotiate a deal and claiming Tehran was prepared to return to the bargaining table.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThey want to settle so badly. They don\u2019t like what we\u2019re doing, and they do want to settle. We\u2019ll find out whether or not we settle with them, or we just finish it off,\u201d he said Wednesday at a defense industry event in Pennsylvania.\n <\/p>\n

\n A week ago, Trump offered a different viewpoint, claiming it was a \u201cwaste of time\u201d to continue talking to Iran.\n <\/p>\n

\n Speaking in a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance \u2014 the administration\u2019s lead negotiator with Iran \u2014 said the war will not be won through military force alone.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cYou can bomb them, you can take away their radar, you can take away some of their drones and some of their missiles, but it\u2019s just too easy to fire at ships in the straits,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you\u2019ve got to actually be willing to talk and to try to figure out the problem.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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