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Trump says US would consider attacking Iran again
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Donald Trump has said he would “absolutely” consider bombing Iran again.
At a White House briefing, he said he would “without question” attack the country if Tehran is enriching uranium to concerning levels.
Trump also reacted sternly to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei’s remarks that Iran “slapped America in the face” by launching an attack against a major US base in Qatar following the US bombing raids. Khamenei also said Iran would never surrender.
In a social media post Trump wrote: “His Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the US Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life. I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH.”
Iran, meanwhile, said a potential nuclear deal was conditional on the US ending its “disrespectful tone” toward the Supreme Leader.
“If President Trump is genuine about wanting a deal, he should put aside the disrespectful and unacceptable tone towards Iran’s Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, and stop hurting his millions of heartfelt followers,” Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X in the early hours of Saturday.
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Iran began a state funeral service Saturday for around 60 people, including its military commanders, killed in its war with Israel.
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The Israeli army said on Saturday that a missile launched from Yemen toward Israeli territory had been “most likely successfully intercepted”.
