PANews reported on March 14th, citing British media, that David Sachs, Trump's head of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency affairs, called on the US to "find a way out" of the conflict with Iran, marking the first public signal of dissatisfaction among senior Trump administration officials regarding the Middle East war. Sachs stated, "Now is a good time to declare victory and walk away." He added that such a move is "clearly what the markets want to see." Trump previously claimed that the US military bombed military facilities on Kharg Island, Iran's oil export hub. Sachs raised specific concerns about the consequences of further US attacks on such infrastructure, mentioning the possibility of nuclear war. He said that if more of Iran's energy infrastructure is attacked, "Iran could continue targeting the oil and gas infrastructure of the Gulf states…that would be a much worse outcome. If this war lasts for weeks or months, then Israel could be destroyed. Their air defense systems could be exhausted…and then there would be concerns that Israel might consider using nuclear weapons to escalate the war."