The US administration under President Donald Trump has informed Israel that it intends to deploy dozens of additional military refuelling aircraft to the country as Washington weighs a possible expansion of its military campaign against Iran, according to Axios, citing three US and Israeli officials.

According to Axios, the proposed deployment comes after Trump reviewed multiple military options during a Situation Room meeting earlier this week. The options under consideration reportedly include strikes on Iranian energy and civilian infrastructure such as power plants, additional attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities to further bury its stockpile of enriched uranium, and a possible strike on the underground Pickaxe Mountain site, which is suspected to be under development.