US deploys B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran strike

After accelerating threats against Iran at the beginning of this week, Trump said he would stop for two weeks to give a chance to diplomacy on Thursday. Israel, which promised to destroy Iran’s missile and nuclear programs, continued strikes as Iran started more retaliation.

Even if it implies the final date for my ultimatism, Trump claimed that he could support the ceasefire while the talks continued. Iran wanted the attacks to stop before entering the negotiations, something Israel refused to do.

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Bilgözel Depending on the conditions, ”the President said when he asked if he would go back to the fight to allow negotiations. However, he questioned whether such a ceasefire was possible, saying that Israel’s strikes on Iran could be “very difficult to stop”.

Iran, if the US had been serious about advancement of negotiations, Trump said that he could call Israel to stop his strikes, “I think it’s hard to make this request right now,” he replied.

“If someone wins, it is a little more difficult than someone’s loss,” he said. “But we are ready, willing and talent and we talk to Iran and we will see what will happen.”

Israel and Iran exchanged more strikes and thousands of people protested in the Iranian capital. Shortly after 2.30 in Israel (Saturday morning), Iran launched a dams that trigger air strikes in the regions of Central Israel, including Tel Aviv and in the occupied West Bank. At least 31 people were injured in Hyfa, Israel.

In contrast, 25 Israeli fighter planes Jets carried out air strikes targeting “missile storage and infrastructure components i in Western Iran. Iran’s Persian news agency, Israel’s largest in the country, Isfahan nuclear facility targeted, but dangerous substances are not leakage, he said. The Israeli Defense Minister said that Saeed Izadi, a commander of Iran’s paramilitary revolutionary guards, killed Izadi, who financed and armed it to prepare for the Israeli attack on 7 October 2023.

Meanwhile, European diplomats made slight progress in four -hour meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday, while inviting him to revive diplomatic efforts with the United States.

In a joint written statement published at the end of the talks, the three nations and the EU said that they discussed ways for a solution to Iran’s nuclear program, ”. They reiterated their concerns about the “expansion ın of the nuclear program and added that there was no“ reliable civilian purpose ..

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British Foreign Minister David Lammy told reporters, “We are eager to continue discussions and negotiations with Iran, and we call on Iran to continue negotiations with the United States.” “This is a dangerous moment and it is very important that we do not see the regional rise of this conflict.”

Araghchi stressed that he was open to more dialogue, but that Tehran was not interested in negotiating with the US, while Israel continued to attack.

Iran If aggression stops and is held responsible for the aggressive crimes, Iran is ready to think of diplomacy, ”he said.

According to a European official, a follow -up meeting has not been planned yet, and there was no agreement on where or in which format of such meetings would take place.

Before a two -month negotiation process with the US was suspended after Israel’s attack, Tehran pointed out his desire to accept some restrictions on enrichment activities. Israel and the United States said the Islamic Republic should not be allowed to enrich the uranium.

Trump played European diplomatic efforts.

“Iran does not want to talk to Europe. They want to talk to us,” he said. “Europe will not be able to help this.”

Trump also said that Israel lacks Iran’s ability to destroy all its nuclear facilities on its own.

Most experts say that a successful strike against the underground nuclear enrichment area in Fordow will require American participation, because Israel’s most powerful “Bunker-Butle” bombs are no ammunition. However, there are discussions on this issue, some claim that Israel has the necessary tools.

“They really have a very limited capacity, Tr Trump said. “They could break a small part, but they can’t go deep. They don’t have these capacities.” And the President added: “Maybe it won’t be necessary.”

When Israel attacked, when Israel attacked, Iran repeated weeks from receiving nuclear bombs, and again, the National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, in March, said there was no evidence that Iran had built a nuclear weapon for the Congress in March. Gabbard said on Friday that the media took the previous statement “out -of -context ve and tried to“ produce division ”.

Just before meeting with European diplomats, Araghchi insisted that Israel’s attacks on nuclear facilities are serious war crimes ”and ız We are determined to defend our regional integrity, national power and security with all the power”.

Iran has long insisted that the nuclear program has been peaceful, but the only non -nuclear armed of uranium enriched up to 60 percent, the state is a shorter and technical step away from 90 percent weapon class levels.

Oil prices said that after a report from Reuters on Friday, Iran is ready to discuss the restrictions on uranium enrichment, but they have increased significantly before the conflict.

Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran last week, and said the sworn enemy’s threat of acquiring nuclear weapons should be neutralized. Iran responded with its own missiles and drone waves and there were severe losses on both sides.