According to CoinMeta, as reported by the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post on the 14th, Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command, denied that senior military officials are pushing for a new round of military strikes against Iran. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Hawkins stated that reports claiming that Brad Cooper, the commander of the U.S. Central Command, is advocating for a new round of attacks on Iran are "purely fabricated and not based in fact at all."