Name: Trump increasingly frustrated on Iran military options, sources say
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Multiple sources tell CBS News that President Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with what aides describe as the limits on military leverage against Iran.

The US Military has recently beefed up its presence in the Middle East.

While American officials negotiate with Tehran over its nuclear program.

President Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran to make a deal.

CBS News foreign correspondent Raymi Innocencio is tracking all of this from our London newsroom.

So what more can you tell us about the apparent frustration the president is feeling over Iran?

Yes, those multiple sources to CBS News also say that President Trump has been told, has been really cautioned that if he ordered the US military to hit Iran, then it would almost 100% not be this kind of one and done decisive blow that he might want.

And that would translate into a series of strikes.

And if we want to push it further, that could then turn into a wider, longer confrontation with Iran possibly pulling in the Middle East.

So basically this kind of domino effect or some kind of spiral into a greater conflict.

Michael, further reporting also says that that advice has come straight from the Joint Chiefs himself, the top general, General Dan Kaine this morning.

Ford was docked in Crete, this is the southern island of Greece, at a NATO base based in the northwest of that island.

It's now something like 500 miles away from the Israeli coast.

So if ordered to do so, it can steam a day or so.

But about those frustrations, taking to truth social, the president refuted all that and said that General Kaine is, in his words, against us going to war with Iran.

He says General Kaine told him that a strike on Iran will be something actually easily won and that he'd rather have a deal, but

then if not, it would be a very bad day for Iran.

And he went on to say that it would be a bad day as well for the people who he said are great and wonderful.

And you remember as some of those people are on the streets right now, as we've been reporting, students protesting at several universities since Saturday, many chanting death to Ayatollah, many calling for the son of the shah to be the country's new leader.

And the government just gave its first official reaction saying don't cross red lines.

You are allowed to protest, but don't do things such as burning the flag of the Islamic Republic.

So now, Michael, we have a couple look aheads tonight.

There's the State of the Union as we were talking about earlier.

What will President Trump say about Iran, if anything and then if he pushes ahead to two days from now, Geneva talks between the US and Iran, mediated by Oman.

But first, we look ahead to Sotu because things might change after that.

All right, Ramy and Asensio in London, thank you.