Trump says there is still no decision that we join Israel
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Trump’s imminent decision about Israel-Iran
President Trump said Wednesday that he had not yet decided whether the United States army should join the ongoing attacks of Israel against Iran, and did not believe it was too late to reach an agreement with the Islamic Republic in its nuclear program, although it warned that it was “too late to speak.”
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Iran has prepared missiles and teams for strikes in the US bases in the region if the United States joins Israel’s warfare efforts against Iran, according to a senior intelligence official in the United States and a Pentagon official reported on the matter.
When asked if he thought it was too late to negotiate a new agreement to stop Iran’s nuclear program, which has made it clear that he wants the Iranian government to abandon completely, Mr. Trump said: “Nothing is too late.”
Trump said the Iranians had looked for conversations and said they had even suggested to send a delegation for discussions in the White House.

“I said: ‘It’s really late. You know?’ I said: “It’s too late to talk,” the president said, he added: “There is a big difference between now and a week,” before Israel began to mark Iran with air attacks.
In a publication on social networks, Iran’s mission before the United Nations seemed to respond directly to Mr. Trump’s comments, saying: “No Iranian official has asked to run out at the doors of the White House.”
“The only thing more negligible than his lies is his cowardly threat to ‘eliminate’ the Supreme Leader of Iran,” said the post. “Iran does not negotiate under coercion, it will not accept peace under coercion, and certainly not with a boiquero that has been clinging to relevance. Iran will respond to any threat with a contrary to any action with reciprocal measures.”
An Iranian official had warned early Wednesday that any US intervention in the conflict with Israel would risk the “total war”, since the exchange of unprecedented fire with combat airplanes and ballistic missiles entered a sixth day.
During the night, a fresh Israeli missile bombardment crossed the skies of Tehran. Most were taken by IranAerial defenses, but the Israeli army and the United Nations Nuclear Surveillance Agency said that other site linked to Iran’s nuclear program was achieved.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, the spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, the Brigadier General Effie Defrin, said the “extensive operation” during the night involved more than 50 combat planes deployed for three strike waves, during which “we have reached a centrifugal production site that were destined for the regime to continue the regime to continue with its enrichment of uranium.
The UN International Atomic Energy Agency said in a publication on social networks that it had “information that two centrifugal production facilities in Iran, the Tesa Karaj workshop and the Tehran Research Center,” added “that” both sites were previously under the monitoring and verification of JCPOA “, Iran’s international nuclear nuclear agreement that Mr. Trump with the US Your first term.
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Iran retaliates with another wave of missiles launched in Israel by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of the country. The sirens rang in Israel to warn that they were on their way, but the missiles were intercepted, with explosions seen in the heavens on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
The constant exchange of fire has taken a growing cost in human life. Iranian authorities have not provided updates since they said during the weekend that more than 220 people were killed. Human rights activists based in the United States in the Iranian organization, which is based on a network of contacts in the country, said Tuesday that he had documented at least 452 deaths in Iran since Israel launched their attacks, including 109 confirmed military personnel, 224 civilians and 119 people who could not immediately identify.
The war has also caused an exodus from the capital of Iran, Tehran, with a video that shows thousands of vehicles at an end point on the primary exit routes. These frantic exhaust offers were fed by Trump’s direct warning to the approximately 10 million inhabitants of Tehran earlier this week to “immediately evacuate.”
While Israel has been able to inflict much greater damage to Iran, it has not been immune to suffering. At least 24 people have been killed by Iranian missiles who pass through the robust aerial defenses of the country.
Bella Ashkinaze, 90, and her husband Chaim were asleep in her apartment building near Tel Aviv on Sunday when an Iranian missile crashed into her house. Bella died and was buried this week in an emotional farewell. His granddaughter Shani Boana told News themezone that her grandparents were too fragile to continue going to her bomb shelters every time the sirens smiled.
“I would like to be able to go back time and take it to the safe room,” he said. “I’m going to miss it a lot … but I still think we must do whatever it takes to stop that threat [from Iran]”
Israel has advised its citizens to remain near the bomb shelters, and the United States embassy said it would be closed from Wednesday to at least Saturday.
Iran warns of “Total War” if we bind us to Israeli attacks
“I think that any American intervention would be a recipe for a total war in the region with very, very bad consequences for the entire international community,” the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmail Baghaei, told the English of Al Jazeera on Wednesday, and added that he did not believe that the Trump administration could dictate to Israel what he could and could not do.
Ali Bahraini, an ambassador of Iran in Geneva and a high -level diplomat of the country, said that Tehran “would firmly respond” to what he called the “ongoing Israeli aggression”, and warned that Iran would do the same against the United States if US forces join the conflict.
In a statement later it was broadcast on Iranian state television, Supreme Leader Ayatolá Khamenei He said that the United States “should know that any military intervention will undoubtedly result in irreparable damage.”
“Those who know the story of Iran know that the Iranians do not respond well to the language of threats,” Khamenei said, added that they will “never give up.”
He also said that Israel had made a “big mistake”, for which the country would be “punished.”

The challenging messages occurred after President Trump issued a severe warning on Tuesday, demanding an “unconditional surrender” of the clerical rulers of Iran.
When asked on Wednesday at the White House what he meant with those two words, Mr. Trump said: “Very simple, unconditional surrender. That means I have had it. I have had it. I do not give up. Then. Then we exploited all the nuclear things that are in the whole place there. They had bad intentions. You know, for 40 years, they have been saying, death to America, death to Israel, liked.
Trump had threatened the country’s supreme leader, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, directly on Tuesday, saying that the United States knew where he was but that he would not still kill him yet. He added: “Our patience gets thin.”
Khamenei, in his speech on Wednesday, described Trump’s ultimatum as “unacceptable.”
The Trump administration has insisted since Israel launched its first attacks on Iran that the US army is not participating directly in the attacks. But five sources familiar with the matter told News themezone on Tuesday that Trump is now considering joining strikes, including possible attacks against Iran’s secrets Fordo Nuclear Enrichment facility. The site is deeply buried under a mountain, and it is believed that Israel needs American combat planes to effectively attack facilities.
Two sources told News themezone on Wednesday that Israel has not requested that the United States join their effort in Iran militarily. They said that the decision was Mr. Trump to take with his advisors, and that Israel has its own plans and feels that he is able to proceed alone.
There is a disagreement between the nearby advisors of Mr. Trump about taking direct measures together with Israel, the sources of News themezone said on Tuesday, but the US army has sent additional combat airplanes from their bases of origin to Europe, which analysts believe they could prepare for a more important role in the Middle East.
The associated News themezone BBC News network said Tuesday that its own analysis of flight tracking data had verified at least 30 US military planes that flew from bases in the United States to Europe during the previous three days, all oil aircraft used to combine planes and combat bombers. The Flightradar24 monitoring website data showed at least seven of the airplanes, all KC -135 Stratotankers had stopped in the US bases in Spain, Scotland and England.
Justin Bronk, a senior analyst in the group of experts from Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) in London, told the BBC that the deployments were “very suggestive” of US military contingency plans to “support intensive combat operations” in the Middle East in the coming days.
James Laporta contributed to this report.
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Debora Patta
Debora Patta is a senior foreign correspondent of News themezone based in Johannesburg. Since he joined News themezone in 2013, he reported on important stories in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The Edward R. Murrow and Scripps Howard awards are among the many praise Patta has received for their work.


