A stunning report has revealed that Trump put a halt on Israeli plans for a series of joint strikes next month aimed at taking out Iranian nuclear sites.
Instead the President wanted to try a diplomatic solution to the problem of Tehran's nuclear program. Sources say the Israel attack plan would set back the regime's ability to produce a workable bomb by at least a year. 
The New York Times reported divisions within Trump’s cabinet on the question of aggression or diplomacy.
The U.S. would be needed to defend Israel from retaliation as well as the strike itself, The Times reported.
The result has been a “rough consensus” for now against military action.
Jan Markell is founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries and host of Understanding the Times on American Family Radio.
"The Iranians would love to buy time by dragging out negotiations with President Trump as long as possible, and I think Donald Trump will go along with that for a while, but certainly not forever."
But Markell points out the alternative.
"The alternative is indeed an American attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, which, by the way, is the supreme challenge. They're underground. They're within the mountains. They're strategically planted facilities that are extremely difficult to get to. Now, would Israel cooperate in this, of course. Now this has kind of been put off. At least it's on delay. Israel was going to attack in May. And the president said, you know, we ought to wait. We got to talk and talk and talk."
