Ammon News - The Pentagon has told a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare to deploy to the Middle East as the U.S. military readies for a potential attack on Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing three U.S. officials.

President Trump said Tuesday that he was weighing sending a second carrier to the Middle East to prepare for military action if negotiations with Iran failed. The order to deploy could be issued in a matter of hours, one of the officials said.

Trump said Tuesday he was considering sending another carrier to the region to prepare for potential military action if talks with Iran fail. According to one U.S. official cited by the newspaper, an order for the carrier strike group to depart could come within hours.

The officials stressed that Trump has not yet issued a formal order to deploy a second carrier and that plans could change. If dispatched, the carrier would join the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is already operating in the region.

One official said the Pentagon is preparing to send another carrier within two weeks, likely from the U.S. East Coast. The report said the USS George H.W. Bush is completing a series of exercises off the coast of Virginia and could accelerate their conclusion if necessary.

Following his meeting with Netanyahu, which lasted nearly three hours, Trump said in a post on X that no agreements were reached beyond his insistence that negotiations with Iran continue. He described the meeting as "very good," adding that “nothing definitive was reached, other than I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a deal can be consummated. If it can, I let the Prime Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be.