Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. But after being rebuffed in April when he sought Trump’s approval for a joint operation against Iran’s nuclear program, Netanyahu could be on the verge of persuading an American president to provide the B-2s to deliver the 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs capable of penetrating the concrete fortress believed to conceal Tehran’s most dangerous stockpile of nearly-weapons-grade uranium, based on new Israeli intelligence. That has created a political tug-of-war for the heart and mind of Trump, who has publicly yearned for the Nobel Prize, seeing himself as a peacemaker who could bring Iran back into the community of non-terrorist nations and avoid another “forever war.” Fighting that vision is his competing impulse to join Israel in eliminating the nuclear threat once and for all.
Author: The Politics Desk
Published at: 2025-06-18 22:12:03
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