Israel has warned that his war with Iran could be long, because President Donald Trump of the United States has rejected European peace efforts and indicated that he could “support the two Central Eastern nations,” depending on the circumstances “.
The comments were made on Friday, when the conflict went into his second week and Israeli troops focused on Tehran, while Iranian missiles injured many in the Mediterranean port city of Haifa.
Iran and Israel exchanged new attacks early on Saturday, with the Iran’s Fars press agency that Israel had focused on the Isfahan -Nuclear facility, one of the largest in the nation, but there was no leakage of dangerous materials.
Iranian media also said that Israel had attacked a building in the city of Qom, with first reports of a 16-year-old killed and two injured.
The Israeli army said it had launched a wave of attacks on rocket storage and launch infrastructure locations in Iran. It also said that Iran had fired five ballistic rockets on Israel on Saturday, but there were no immediate indications for any consequences.
The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said on Saturday that the army had killed two Iranian revolutionary guards, including someone who was “responsible for all weapon transfers from the Iranian regime to his proxies in the middle”.
‘Difficult days before the bow’
On Friday, the Israeli Foreign Minister Eyal Zamir warned his citizens in a video address to prepare for a “long -term campaign” with “difficult days ahead”.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told a meeting of European diplomats in Geneva that Iran would not resume conversations about his nuclear program during attacked.
In the meantime, Trump rejected European diplomatic efforts and said it was up to the US to find a solution to the current conflict.
“Iran does not want to speak with Europe. They want to speak to us. Europe will not be able to help here,” said Trump.
Trump also claimed that his director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was wrong to suggest that there is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon.
On Friday, Gabbard said that the media had “taken her testimony from the context” and tried to manufacture “division”.
In a post on the social media platform X, she said: “America has intelligence that Iran is about to produce a nuclear weapon within a few months to months, if they decide to complete the meeting. President Trump has not been clear, and I agree.”
The meeting of Araghchi with European counterparts on Friday was aimed at setting up a path back to diplomacy about Iran’s nuclear program.
European Foreign Ministers insisted on Iran to get in touch with Washington in the current current negotiations, but the conversations ended with few signs of progress.
In a press conference after the meeting, Araghchi told reporters that Iran would be ready to “consider diplomacy again as soon as the aggression is stopped” and “the aggressor is held responsible for the horrible crimes,” referring to Israel.
Trump keeps the world gaden as the conflict continues
The air raid between the two countries started on 13 June, after Israel Iran had attacked and raised alarms in a region that has been created in October 2023 since the start of the war of Israel in Gaza.
Trump and the White House say that in the next two weeks he will decide whether the US will involve himself in the conflict.
In the meantime, Trump has held the world to guess his plans, to switch back and forth between proposing a quick diplomatic solution and suggests that Washington could participate in the fight.
When asked on Friday whether he would be willing to send us soldiers to Iran if it escalated conflict, Trump said: “I’m not going to talk about ground troops, because the last thing you want to do are ground troops.”
He also said that it was unlikely that he would put Israel under pressure to scale back his air strikes to continue negotiations.
“I think it is very difficult to make that request now. If someone wins, it is a bit harder to do than when someone loses, but we are ready, prepared and competent, and we have spoken with Iran, and we will see what happens,” he said.
Israel is the only country in the middle -east that was generally supposed to have nuclear weapons. It said it was struck Iran to prevent Tehran from developing his own nuclear weapons.
The envoy of Israel to the United Nations, Danny Danon, told the UN Security Council on Friday that his country would not stop his attacks “until Iran’s nuclear threat was dismantled”.
The UN envoy of Iran Amir Saeid Iravani called for action from the Security Council and said that Tehran was alerted by reports that the US could join the war.
Iran, which says that his nuclear program is peaceful, has taken revenge with his own strikes on Israel. Iran is a party to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, while Israel is not.
A senior Iranian official said Reuters that Iran was ready to discuss limitations on the enrichment of uranium, but that it would reject every proposal that it would not forbid it completely enrich the uranium, “especially now under the strikes of Israel”.
At least 430 people were killed and 3,500 were injured in Iran since 13 June, Iranian reported Nour news on Saturday, referring to the Ministry of Health of the Land.
The Iranian human rights group, which was established in Washington, has previously said that Israeli strikes had killed 639 people in Iran.
Israel says that Iranian attacks have killed 24 civilians in Israel.
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