Iran live updates: Trump admin prepares range of options to target Iran, including 'mother of all bombs,' sources say

Top administration and defense officials have prepared a range of options for the president to consider as he weighs further military escalation in Iran, sources told ABC News.

The list of options prepared by officials includes the use of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb known as the "mother of all bombs," according to sources familiar with the matter.

The president has not made a decision, according to sources. Trump has been meeting with top officials as he considers next steps in the war with Iran and is regularly presented with a range of options.

Trump has said he will not strike Iran before the midterm election. On the campaign trail, he vows the war will end soon but it's unclear how that will happen.

The president used the MOAB during his first administration to attack an Islamic State cave complex in 2017. The bomb is the largest U.S. non-nuclear weapon.

A White House official told ABC News, "We do not comment on sensitive military plans that may or may not exist. President Trump keeps all options on the table to ensure that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon."

ABC News has reached out to the Pentagon for comment.

When asked about the bomb in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday evening, Trump said "it's not nuclear at all. This is just a extremely large bomb. It's like a tiny nuclear bomb, and -- but the mother of all bombs is one big bomb, but it's not nuclear. I wouldn't use nuclear. We don't have to. We're the greatest nuclear power in the world."

CNN was first to report the options presented to the president.

-ABC News' Rachel Scott and Katherine Faulders

France has started deploying military assets in Saudi Arabia, a spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry, Pascal Confavreux, confirmed in a press conference Thursday.

"You know that the Houthi attacks in Yemen and against Saudi Arabia threaten not only Saudi Arabia's security and the region's energy security, but you also know that the President announced on September 24th that France would support the defense of Saudi energy infrastructure, particularly the Yanbu East-West Corridor. And this support is currently being deployed," Confavreux said in a news conference.

French President Emmanuel Macron said last month that France would send troops and defense systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, ‌‌a key hub for energy transport.

-ABC News' Desiree Adib

Five people were killed, and 16 were injured in the Houthi attack that targeted the al-Maashiq Presidential Palace in Yemen’s Aden, according to the Yemeni health minister.

The Houthis responded saying Saudi Arabian warplanes launched 65 airstrikes and missile attacks in the last 24 hours, targeting civilian sites in the capital, Sana’a, and the governorates of Lahj, Hudaydah, Taiz, Amran, Saada and Marib.

"The attacks were carried out by F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from the Khamis Mushait and Taif air bases, while the missile attacks originated from Najran. This brings the total number of Saudi aggression airstrikes and missile attacks against our country since the escalation began to 2,388," the Houthis said in a statement.

Saudi-led coalition spokesperson, Major General Turki Al-Maliki said Houthi attack against Saudi Arabia are regional security threats to peace and said they must stop all their attacks.

King Khalid Airport was attacked 20 times since Oct. 1, according to Al-Maliki. At least 17 people were killed and 333 were injured between Oct. 7 to Oct. 11, according to Al-Maliki.