Trump urges Iran to ‘make a deal, before there is nothing left'
US President Donald Trump urged Iran on Friday to 'make a deal', warning that there will be more 'death and destruction' after Israel launched deadly strikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities.
His comments on his Truth Social platform came after
Israel pounded Iran in a series of air raid s on Friday, striking 100 targets.
The operation killed senior figures – among them the armed forces chief and top nuclear scientists – and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has described Israel's attack as a 'declaration of war'.
On Friday morning, Trump said: 'I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal'.
He added that Israel – which Trump has aligned Washington to since his return to the White House – has a lot of weapons thanks to the United States and 'they know how to use it'.
'There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end,' Trump said on his Truth Social platform.
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