US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed an attack on Iran and several possible levels of US support during the latter’s visit to Washington last week, ranging from active military support, such as providing intelligence or mid-air refueling, to more limited political support, The Washington Post reported Friday.

According to the newspaper, Trump, who has pledged to stop wars around the world and does not want another conflict in the Middle East, is under pressure from Israel, which considers Tehran to be in a period of maximum weakness after the war on Gaza and Lebanon and the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.

The newspaper quoted American and Israeli officials as saying that Israel wants to seize the opportunity, and if Iran does not agree to give up its nuclear facilities, similar to what happened in Libya, Israel is prepared to bomb those facilities, with or without US support.

They added that the Biden administration was considering in its final days whether to support this Israeli threat or not, but decided not to do so. Now this threat has become one of the top issues facing Trump, according to the newspaper.

She continued that the United States had supplied Israel with bunker-busting munitions that would severely damage Iranian centrifuges and other uranium enrichment equipment buried in a mountain fort at Fordo, near Qom.

In a recent interview with Fox News, Trump said of the possibility of attacking Iran, “Everybody thinks that Israel, with our help or our approval, is going to come in and bomb them. I would rather not have that happen. I would rather see a deal with Iran where we can make a deal, oversee it, verify it, inspect it and then blow it up or make sure there are no more nuclear facilities.”

"There are two ways to stop them: with bombs or with a piece of paper. I would much rather reach an agreement," he added.

"I think Iran is very nervous. I think they're scared. I think Iran would love to make a deal, and I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them," Trump continued during the interview, considering that after the Israeli attack on Iran last October, "their air defenses were pretty much gone."

Last month, US military intelligence analysts predicted that Israel would attack Iranian nuclear facilities within the first six months of this year, in the absence of an agreement, the newspaper reported the day before yesterday.

National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes was quoted as describing Trump's position as "while he prefers to negotiate a solution... peacefully, he will not wait indefinitely if Iran is not willing to engage, and soon."

The newspaper reported that the Biden and Trump administrations discussed how long an Israeli strike might delay Iran’s nuclear program. It quoted one American official as saying that “it could take six months at best.” But Israeli officials believe, according to the newspaper, that the effects could last a year or more.

Israel claims that Iran may be secretly advancing toward the 90% enrichment level needed to make bombs.

However, the newspaper considered that "Trump's tough approach to dealing with negotiations, through obstruction and then reaching an agreement, is the main feature of these first weeks of his second term. But threatening an attack on Iran is a failed attempt, even for Trump. It is clear that he does not want war. But the final decision-maker in this regard may be Netanyahu, not Trump."