US President Donald Trump on Monday called on Iran to reach an agreement on its nuclear program, emphasizing that Tehran still has an opportunity to avoid further confrontation with Israel.
In a post on the social media platform Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I told Iran to make a deal, but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they came to a deal, they just couldn’t do it.”
“There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end. Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left,” Trump added.
Earlier, Israel said it had struck Iranian nuclear targets to block Tehran from developing atomic weapons, even as the Trump administration was preparing to hold a sixth round of talks on Sunday on Tehran’s escalating uranium enrichment program.
Subsequently, Marco Rubio, Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser, stressed that Israel’s strikes were unilateral, while saying the U.S. had known attacks would occur.
Several Iranian key figures including top leadership of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an Israeli attack last night.
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Among those confirmed killed in the attacks are Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces; and Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, along with several other senior officers.
According to Iranian media, six nuclear scientists were martyred in the strikes on nuclear facilities.
