Trump considers joining Israel on Iran strikes as IDF targets nuclear sites
One potential target could be the uranium enrichment site at Fordo that is deep underground, says the BBC.
After days of urging Iranians to return to negotiations, US President Donald Trump is considering whether the US should get directly involved in Israel's war against Iran.
Trump's emergency meeting in the Situation Room of the White House, which lasted an hour and 20 minutes yesterday, was held to discuss whether the US should join Israel to strike Iranian nuclear sites, CBS News reports.
The report says there is not a full agreement among Trump's closest advisers.
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In yesterday's meeting of the US National Security Council, Trump and his advisers are reported to have discussed the possibility of striking Iran's nuclear sites. One potential target could be the uranium enrichment site at Fordo that is deep underground, says the BBC.
Prior to this, Trump spoke to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, late on Tuesday, according to Axios. There's no readout of what they discussed or what was said.
Only the Americans have a bomb capable of destroying it. According to CBS News, the president's advisers are still divided about how to proceed. US and Israeli media say Trump followed the meeting with a call to Netanyahu, but it is not known what was discussed.
In the past three days, at least 30 US military tanker aircraft - used to refuel fighter jets and bombers - have been flown to Europe.
Yesterday, in a flurry of social media posts, Trump demanded Iran's "unconditional surrender".
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, responded with a series of social media messages of his own last night - insisting his country would "never compromise with Zionists".
Israel targeting Iranian missile production facility near Tehran
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is targeting the Khojir missile production facility near the Iranian capital in its latest strikes, Iranian media is reporting, according to the Reuters news agency.
The facility is understood to be important to Iran's ballistic missile-related infrastructure, and was targeted by Israel in its strikes on Iran last October, reports the BBC.
The Israeli military says it has struck uranium centrifuge production sites and weapons factories in Iran overnight on the sixth day of its unprecedented offensive.
These strikes, carried out by "more than 50 aircraft," targeted "a centrifuge production facility in Tehran" as well as "several weapons manufacturing sites (...) including facilities producing raw materials and components used to assemble surface-to-surface missiles," the military says in a statement.
