TL;DR, July 17 -- The United States has notified Israel it is deploying dozens more KC-46A aerial refueling tankers to Israeli airports as President Trump weighed a significant expansion of the military campaign against Iran in a Situation Room meeting Tuesday. Currently around 60 US tankers sit at Ben Gurion and Ramon airports; the new deployment would push numbers back to their highest-ever level. Trump is considering strikes on Iran's power grid, deeper attacks on nuclear facilities, and targeting of the Pickaxe Mountain underground site. The buildup comes after six consecutive nights of US bombing over Iran and the formal collapse of June's ceasefire agreement.

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