The U.S. Has Given Iran 48 Hours
- 18.06.2025, 8:44
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Trump is considering taking part in the fighting.
The US military could join Israel's operation against Iran in the next 24 to 48 hours, participants in US President Donald Trump's meeting with national security advisers at the White House told ABC News. They said it will become clear after the deadline whether the situation has a diplomatic solution or whether the US will have to resort to military action. A senior CNN source in the US administration confirmed to CNN that Trump is considering taking part in military action.
According to The Jerusalem Post's interlocutors familiar with internal White House discussions, if the US joins the military operation, the target of US troops will be the uranium enrichment plant in Fordow. At the same time, the publication's senior Israeli sources believe that Trump has already made a decision and the US will strike Iran if it reneges on a deal that includes dismantling its nuclear program. At the same time, CBS News White House reporter Sarah Cook noted that there is "no unity" among Trump's advisers on the Iran issue. According to ABC News sources, Washington believes they will succeed in bringing Tehran back to the negotiating table and forcing it to sign agreements with a complete renunciation of uranium enrichment.
If Iran agrees, a high-level meeting involving Trump's special envoy Steve Whitkoff and Vice President J.D. Vance could take place as early as this week, ABC News specifies. Meanwhile, Trump published a series of posts on Truth Social the day before in which he called Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei an "easy target" and demanded the country's unconditional surrender. At the same time, American troops stationed at bases across the Middle East were put on high alert, according to the New York Times. In total, more than 40,000 US troops are in the region.
The US and Iran have held five rounds of indirect talks through the mediation of Oman to resolve issues related to Tehran's nuclear program. The sixth round of talks, scheduled for June 15 in Muscat, was canceled after Israel attacked Iran.