The Financial Times reports that the Israeli military prepared a strike campaign on Iran for October 10 that would have targeted energy infrastructure, nuclear facilities, and "regime targets", but cancelled it due to Trump's opposition to resuming strikes before the U.S. midterm elections on November 3. This strike campaign had reportedly been intended to surpass the intensity of the initial joint US-Israeli strikes in February and March. It remains unclear if the U.S. would have taken part in the operation directly. FT reports that the goal of such an operation would have been to force Iran to agree to American terms surrounding the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's nuclear programme, in order to fully end the war. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth travelled to Israel to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. FT reports that Israeli officials presented an "updated target bank" to Hegseth compiled based on new intelligence, including civilian infrastructure targets that had not previously been hit.