US President Donald Trump said today that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb and that Washington hopes that the country will return to the negotiating table.
“Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb and we hope that we will return to the negotiating table. We will see. There are some people in the leadership who will not come back,” Trump said in an interview with “Fox News” after the start of Israeli air strikes on Iran.
US Secretary of State Mark Rubio said that the United States was in no way connected to Israel’s attack on targets in Iran, and that Israel took unilateral action.
“We are not involved in the attacks on Iran and our top priority is to protect American forces in the region,” the White House said.
The Israeli military said that it had launched strikes on several sites in Iran overnight, and that the targets of the attacks were, among other things, targets related to the nuclear program.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that these were “preemptive strikes” and that a state of emergency had been declared in the country.
