‘Desperate’ Trump weighs new war gamble after GOP blowback derailed latest attack

Donald Trump is considering renewed strikes on Iran after intense Republican blowback helped sway him away from attacking before the midterms, The Atlantic reported Thursday.“Trump is desperate to find some options to take him out of this problematic situation,” Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli intelligence officer specializing in Iran, told the outlet.“But you cannot plan for a three-day war, because it is not a unilateral decision. You cannot control how Iran responds,” he added.The Atlantic's Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan Lemire reported that Trump is considering “several days of strikes, likely just after the midterm elections.” Potential targets for the new escalation, which the journalists framed as Trump’s “gamble to end the Iran war,” include nuclear facilities, energy infrastructure and missile and drone stockpiles. An outside adviser told the magazine that economic pressure was bringing Iran “close to the edge” and that new attacks “would push them over.”But the magazine...