Trump says he wants “real end” to Iran
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Trump left the G7 summit early
President Trump said on Tuesday morning that he wants “a real end” to Iran’s nuclear problem, and Tehran “completely resigned” to his enrichment activities. He said that he was not only working towards a fire to put an end to war between Iran and Israel, which has claimed at least two dozen lives in Israel and hundreds in Iran when he enters his fifth day.
“I didn’t say I was looking for a fire,” Trump told journalists on Air Force One after He currently cuts his time at the G7 Summit in Canada.
Previously, the president said on his social platform of the truth that French president Emmanuel Macron had “mistakenly said that I left the G7 summit, in Canada, to return to DC to work in a ‘cease of fire’ between Israel and Iran.
Mr. Trump predicted that Israel would not slow down his assault on Iran, which has largely decapitated the military command of the Islamic Republic and inflicted significant damage to his controversial nuclear program.
“You are going to find out in the next two days. You will find out. No one has slowed so far,” he said, hours after issuing an ominous warning that all approximately 10 million inhabitants of Tehran should “evacuate immediately.”
When asked about that warning on Air Force One the early hours of Tuesday, Trump said he wanted “people to be safe,” without offering more explanation. Israel warned about 300,000 residents on a central district in Tehran to evacuate, pending attacks in the area.

Trump suggested that the reason why he did not want to stay in Canada was because he could not confidentially monitor developments in the Middle East. He said he could be “rather versed” in the White House situation room and avoid cell phones. “I don’t believe on phones, because people like you listen to them,” he told journalists on the plane. “Being on the scene is much better.”
A source with knowledge of the conversations told News themezone on Monday that Tehran had indicated to the negotiators in Qatar and Oman who was prepared to discuss a new agreement with the United States in its nuclear program, but not while it was still under Israeli attack.
The president said it was possible to be able to send a special envoy Steve Witkoff or Vice President JD Vance, or both, to meet with Iranian negotiators, but “it depends on what happens when I return” to Washington.
“I don’t know,” Trump added. “I’m not too much humor to negotiate.”
When addressing any possible threat to the interests of the United States in the region, Trump said Iran knew that it was not addressed to US forces, since the United States “would give so strong if they do something to our people.”

The president refused to say whether the president of the Joint Chiefs of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Dan Caine, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had provided him with options in case the bases of the United States in the Middle East will attack.
“I can’t tell you that,” he said.
When asked if he would take the participation to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, Trump said he hoped he was “erased long before that.”
Trump says Iran was “very close” to get a nuclear weapon.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has framed the attack that ordered Iran at the end of last week as an “existential” battle for Israel’s survival. Intelligence said, which Israel has not shared publicly, showed that the country was “running” towards the development of a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu, along with all recent US presidents, including Trump, have always said they could not allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
However, only several months ago, the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard delivered an evaluation to the legislators who said that US agencies continued “to evaluate that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that suspended in 2003.”
Gabbard said that the United States continued to “closely monitoring if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program,” and noted that “in the last year, we have seen an erosion of a taboo of decades in Iran in discussing nuclear weapons in the public probably in the reverse of the defenders of nuclear weapons within the Iran decision -making apparatus.”
When asked on Air Force One about that Gabbard evaluation, which Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, Mr. Trump told reporters: “I don’t care what he said. I think they were very close to having them.”
Israel expands the assault on Iran
Israel expanded its aerial assault on Iran Monday, hitting not only nuclear and military facilities and killing the upper military leaders, but also addressing the media controlled by the regime. The extensive headquarters of Iranian State TV in Tehran was attacked when the network was transmitting.
Seyed Bathaei of News themezone in Tehran said that the network remained in the air, but that a part of its complex was on fire on Monday night.

When asked about the strike on Tuesday, the spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, said the network “was used to spread the antiisraeli propaganda and we asked for genocide for several decades. We attacked it just when we attack all the components of the Iranian terrorist regime and the plan to destroy Israel.”
In a clear spectacle of domination about his archirrival for a long time, Israel also said Tuesday that he had killed the chief of the Iranian army cabinet Ali Shadmani, only four days after his predecessor was killed in the first round of strikes in Israel.
“Following precise intelligence reevied by the intelligence branch, we eliminated Ali Shadamnai, The Chief of Staff of the War, The Most Senior Military Commander of the Iranian Regime. Staff of the Iranian Regime’s Armed Forces and the Man Closest to Iran’s Leader Khamenei.
The attacks have sent thousands of Iranians to try to evacuate the main cities. A massive explosion in the city of Isfahan was trapped in someone’s Dash camera during the weekend when passengers tried to flee.
“We can’t leave. What else can we do?” You can listen to the anxious occupants of the car.
The human cost of war is increasing on both sides. Iranian officials have not provided an update since Sunday, when they said that at least 220 people had been killed. They did not give a collapse, but they said that many civilians were among the victims
In Israel, Netanyahu said on Monday that at least 24 people had been killed by Iranian missiles who managed to evade the country’s robust aerial defenses.
The attacks continued Monday night and until Tuesday morning, with Defrin saying that Iran had launched 30 missiles, most of them intercepted, “but several blows were identified.”
He did not report any new victim, but warned the Israelis: “We should not be complacent, the Iranians still have intentions and the ability to attack.”

On Monday, an Iranian missile crashed into an apartment building in the central city of Peta Tikva in the center of Peta Tikva, killing four people.
Lihi Griner, an Israeli American, was there, with her husband and three children, hidden in her safe room.
“It was the biggest boom in history,” he told News themezone. “Even our safe room was trembling.”
When the family emerged, they found shattered glass scattered through their apartment.
Given Mr. Trump’s warnings and Netanyahu’s declared determination to eliminate what the multifaceted threat raised by the Iranian regime, News themezone asked Griner if he was prepared for the war with Iran to get worse before he improves.
“I’m not prepared,” he said. “I’m going to run in my little bomb shelter. I’m not prepared for everything. I wasn’t prepared for this.”
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