US President Donald Trump on Friday (June 14, 2025) urged Iran to quickly reach an agreement to restrict his nuclear program because Israel has committed that he will continue to bomb the country.
Mr. Trump framed the volatile moment in the Middle East as a perhaps “second chance” for Iran’s leadership to avoid further destruction before it would no longer stay and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. “The Republican President was pushing Iran when he met his National Security Team in a situational room to discuss the difficult way forward after the devastating strikes of Israel, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed” as many days as it takes “to decap the Iranian nuclear program.
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The White House said it did not engage in strikes, but Mr. Trump stressed that Israel used his deep arsenal of weapons provided to focus on the main Iranian enrichment facility in the natural and ballistic missile program of the country, as well as the highest nuclear scientists and officials.
Mr. Trump said on his truth the social platform that he warned Iranian leaders that “it will be much worse than anything they know, expect, or have been said that the United States produces the best and deadliest military equipment anywhere in the world, by far, and that Israel has a lot, with much more – and know how to use them.”
Just before Israel launched his strikes in Iran early on Friday, Mr. Trump still held torn fibers of the hope that a long -term dispute could be resolved without a military action. He will now be re -tested for his ability to correct the promise of the campaign from separating the US from foreign conflicts.
After the consequences of Israeli strikes, according to two US officials who spoke about the conditions of anonymity, they move their military resources, including ships, in the Middle East.
The Navy ordered a destroyer USS Thomas Hudner to start sailing towards the Eastern Mediterranean and ordered the second destroyer to start moving forward so he could be available if he was asked by the White House.
When Israel has increased strike planning in recent weeks, Iran has indicated that the United States will be responsible for an Israeli attack. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued a warning, although he was involved in interviews with the special ambassador of Trump Steve Witkoff over the rapid progressing nuclear program Tehran.
Friday’s strikes came when Mr. Trump planned to send Witkoff to Oman for the next rounds of interviews with Iranian Foreign Minister.
Witkoff is still planning to go to Oman this weekend for interviews about the Tehran nuclear program, but it is not clear whether the Iranians will participate, according to US officials who spoke about the condition of anonymity to describe private diplomatic discussions.
The President made a series of telephone calls on Friday by American television news anchoring to restore his challenges to Iran to limit his nuclear program.
CNN’s Dana Bash said Mr. Trump told her that the Iranians “should come to the table now” and make an agreement. And Trump said NBC News that Iranian officials “call me to speak” but did not provide more details.
Mr. Trump also spoke with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday and French President Emmanuel Macron about the evolving situation and Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, oil prices jumped up, and shares were in charge of growing violence that could affect oil flow around the world along with the global economy.
Dream Tim Kaine, D-Va, offered rare words of democratic praise for Trump’s administration after the “favor of diplomacy” and “delay” at military strikes. But he also expressed deep concern about what Israeli strikes could mean for US staff in the region.
Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro, who is on the narrower list of democrats for applicants by 2028 White House, said that if Israel can return an Iranian nuclear program with strokes “It’s probably a good day for the world.”
“But don’t make a mistake: we don’t want a total war in the Middle East,” Shapiro said. “This is not only bad for the Middle East, but it is destabilizing for Globe and I hope it will not happen.”
Israel launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iranian nuclear and military structures on Friday, the deployment of war aircraft and drones had previously smuggled into the ground to attack key devices and kill top generals and scientists – according to his adversary, atomic weapons approached.
Iran retaliation by release of the score of ballistic missiles on Israel, where the explosions expanded in the sky above Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shaken the buildings below. The US Army helped Israel capture missiles fired by Iran in a retaliatory attack.
In the lessons before the Israeli attack on Iran, Mr. Trump still seemed promising in public comments that there would be more time for diplomacy.
However, the administration was clear that Israel was moving to military action against Iran. On Wednesday, the state ministry and the US Army managed the voluntary evacuation of non -essential staff and their loved ones from some American diplomatic foundations in the Middle East.
Before Israel launched strikes, some of Trump’s strongest supporters raised concerns about what another expansion conflict in the Middle East could mean for the Republican President, running with the promise to quickly end the brutal wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Mr. Trump tried to find the end game with some of these conflicts and to earn two of his biggest promises of foreign policy.
And after criticizing President Joe Biden during last year’s campaign for Israel from preventing strikes in Iranian nuclear places, Trump found himself in the case of Israelis to give diplomacy a chance.
Mr. Trump’s administration to convince Tehran to give up his nuclear program came after the US and other world powers in 2015 achieved a long -term comprehensive nuclear agreement that limited Tehran enrichment in exchange for abolition of economic sanctions.
Mr. Trump, however, unilaterally withdrew the US from the Obama administration agreement in 2018 and called it the “worst trade”. The way forward is now even more cloudy.
“No problem is currently dividing the law as well as foreign policy,” Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and an ally of Trump White House, published on Thursday. “I am very concerned about (everything) I have seen in Lastroots in the last few months that it will cause a massive split in Maga and potentially disrupt our dynamics and our madly successful presidency.”
Published – 14 June 2025 11:50
