Trump is Reportedly Considering Resuming Attacks Against Iran. Nuclear Weapons and Ground Troops Wouldn’t Feature.

President Donald Trump ruled out using nuclear weapons against Iran and sending ground troops there as the possibility of renewed hostilities goes back to dominating the public debate.

"I wouldn't use nuclear. We don't have to. We're the greatest nuclear power in the world," Trump said in an interview with Newsmax.

The president did say he is considering dropping the so-called "Mother of all Bombs," which is not nuclear. "This is just an extremely large bomb," Trump said.

"It's like a tiny nuclear bomb. The mother of all bombs is one big bomb, but it's not nuclear," he added. However, he refrained from identifying potential targets or say whether he had already approved of its use.

Reports this week noted that, despite the possibility, officials have privately questioned whether dropping the bomb will help the U.S. take meaningful steps towards ending the conflict.

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb is the U.S.'s largest non-nuclear bomb. It was dropped for the first time in combat in Afghanistan in 2017 and would mark an escalation in the conflict.

The MOAB could be deployed to target Iran's underground facilities, particularly nuclear ones. However, there are doubts about whether the bomb would be powerful enough to cause damage to complexes that are buried deep underground, including Pickaxe mountain, which is also believed to be fortified by layers of granite.

The bomb in question weighs almost 10,000 kg and is 30 feet long. It is dropped from the cargo doors of an MC-130 transport plane and detonates shortly after hitting the ground. Its blast wave stretches for a mile in every direction.

Iran, in turn, is also escalating the rhetoric. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) chief Ali Ozmaei said on Wednesday that Tehran is "impatient to sink American warships."

"We are waiting for U.S. warships to approach the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz so we can sink them. We are counting down every moment until this happens," he added in a televised interview with local television.

At the same time, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the Islamic Regime is facing the most severe crisis since the 1979 revolution.

"Never in the 48 years since the Islamic Revolution have we been under such pressure and faced such difficulties," Pezeshkian said when talking in a forum in Azerbaijan, of which he took part virtually.

The president went on to say that Attacks against the country infrastructure hit energy facilities and factories, calling for greater coordination to address issues taking place in the country's different provinces.