Iran should conclude a new agreement regarding its nuclear programme as soon as possible to avoid the next casualties and destruction. This was stated by US President Donald Trump in a post on Truth Social Network on 13 June.
He wrote that he had repeatedly given Tehran a chance for an agreement, but “they just couldn’t do it.”
“Iran must make an agreement before there is nothing left and save what was once known as the Iranian empire,” Trump said.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump said he knew about Israeli strikes on Iran in advance, but the United States was not involved. “Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb and we hope to come back to the negotiating table. We’ll see. There are a few people in the leadership who won’t be back,” the US leader said on Fox News television, indirectly referring to casualties among leaders of Iran’s military and participants in Tehran’s nuclear programme.
There were subsequent reports from Tehran that Iran would not participate in nuclear talks with the US following the Israeli attack.
On Sunday, June 15, another round of talks between the US and Iran on Iran’s nuclear programme was due to take place in Oman. The main issue at them remained the issue of uranium enrichment. The US insisted that Iran could develop its nuclear power only with imported enriched uranium. Iran claimed that enriching uranium on its own territory was its sovereign right.
At 3 a.m. on 13 June, Israel launched an attack on Iran. Israeli aircraft struck uranium enrichment facilities in Natang and Fordow, missile bases in Kermanshah and Khorremabad, and Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz and other major Iranian cities were also under attack.
Iranian media reported that the Israeli strikes killed, among others, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hosein Salami, the Chief of General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, and other high-ranking officials.