By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

The Trump administration is gearing up for an air campaign against Iran’s nuclear program, after President Donald Trump has given preliminary approval for strikes, according to reports by multiple news outlets.

On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump told aides on Tuesday night that he has green-lit plans for strikes on Iran, but is waiting on issuing the final order to attack.

The report cited three people familiar with the deliberations in the president’s inner circle.

Trump, they claimed, is pushing off the strikes in order to give Iran an opportunity to agree to his terms and abandon its nuclear program

“I have ideas on what to do but I haven’t made a final—I like to make the final decision one second before it’s due,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday.

Later on Wednesday, Bloomberg News cited multiple sources who spoke on condition of anonymity saying that senior administration officials are preparing for war with Iran, with some of the sources claiming that the strikes could begin this coming weekend.

ABC News cited an official who said the president has warmed up to the idea of using American warplanes to destroy the Fordow uranium enrichment facility, considered to be the most difficult Iranian nuclear facility to reach.

The Fordow facility, smaller than the Natanz enrichment plant which Israel has already damaged, is built in the side of a mountain outside the city of Qoms.

Estimates of its depth beneath the surface range from nearly half a mile, according to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi – to a more plausible 100 meters (328 feet).

Even at 100 meters the Fordow facility, shielded by rock and reinforced concrete, is far outside the effective depth of Israel’s 2,000-pound and 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs.

Only the GBU-57, a 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, used exclusively by the United States and deployable only on the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, is capable of reaching such a depth.