Trump approves Iran attack plans, holds off on giving final orders

Published on 19/06/2025 - 6:58 GMT+2

US President Donald Trump has reportedly approved plans to onslaught Iran but is holding disconnected connected giving last orders connected whether aliases not to onslaught nan state arsenic its conflict pinch Israel complete its quickly advancing atomic programme intensifies.

The US president is holding disconnected connected giving nan go-ahead for nan attacks successful lawsuit Iran decides to backmost disconnected and surrender to his demands, according to a elder Trump adjutant who said to US media outlet The Wall Street Journal.

Trump has many times called connected Iran to unconditionally surrender its and wantonness its atomic programme amid a heated speech of cross-border rocket strikes pinch Israel.

The conflict, which has entered its seventh day, has claimed nan lives of dozens of Israelis and hundreds of Iranians truthful far.

Asked connected Wednesday connected whether Washington plans to subordinate Israel successful attacking Iran, Trump gave a blunt consequence saying “I whitethorn do it, I whitethorn not do it”. Trump has moreover suggested that nan US assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not disconnected nan table.

The 47th US president claims that Washington knows wherever Khamenei is hiding but are not willing successful sidesplitting him “for now”.

In a recorded speech, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected nan US president’s calls to surrender, vowing to proceed attacks and promising to transportation retired an aggravated “punitive operation” against Israel.

In nan early hours of Thursday, Israel’s subject warned group Thursday to evacuate nan area astir Iran’s Arak dense h2o reactor.

The informing came successful a societal media station connected X. It included a outer image of nan works successful a reddish circle for illustration different warnings that preceded strikes.

The Israeli subject said Thursday’s first information of airstrikes targeted Tehran and different areas of Iran, without elaborating. It later said Iran fired a caller salvo of missiles astatine Israel and told nan nationalist to return shelter.