Trump Reportedly Urged to Decide on New Iran Campaign Before January Congress

President Donald Trump has been urged by some advisers to consider restarting major combat operations in Iran before the new Congress takes office in January, according to two U.S. officials. The disclosure, published early Saturday in Israel, describes a warning about a narrowing opportunity for action. Administration and defense officials reportedly told him he should act within the next 8 weeks, before a Democratic-controlled Congress takes office. The reported timetable concerns advice to the president about a possible new campaign. The date on which that private advice was delivered was not specified in the publicly available account. The reported recommendation does not establish that Trump has ordered another operation or selected an attack date. Separately, Trump said in a November 6 public post that his action against Iran had prevented it from acquiring a nuclear weapon. He claimed that, without his intervention, Israel and the wider Middle East would not have survived. Those assertions were his account of the earlier campaign, rather than an announcement of a new military decision. U.S. economic pressure on Iran also continued on November 6. The Treasury Department designated 8 Canadian money-service businesses, alleging that they enabled Iranian sanctions evasion. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, “Treasury will pursue and disrupt the Iranian regime’s financial channels anywhere in the world.” The department said its pressure campaign targets financing for terrorism, human-rights abuses and attacks on U.S. personnel and allies.