President Donald Trump has described the bombing of Iran from Israel as a 'very successful attack' as he urges them to 'make a deal'.
The 78-year-old has been pushing for the Middle Eastern country to sign a nuclear deal with the group of world powers known as the P5+1 - which includes the US, UK, Germany, France, China and Russia, who've all been in negotiation with Iran in regards to its nuclear program since 2006.
For those unaware, the deal was for Iran to bring to a halt its nuclear development program - with world leaders worried that the country intends to create a nuclear artillery for warfare. In return for Iran axing the program, the US and other leading nations would lift the sanctions placed on Iran.
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The agreement is similar to the first deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), struck in 2015. However, Trump opted the US out of it in May 2018 during his first term as president, labelling it 'defective at its core'.
The Trump administration then sought to reinstate the sanctions on Iran, a move which the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said 'disgraced' US prestige and liberal democracy, according to the BBC.
Upon his return to the White House, Trump issued a batch of sanctions on Iran, this time directed at their' oil network', as per Al Jazeera.
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Between 2012 and 2016, the Iranian economy lost a total of $160 billion in revenue from its oil supply alone. After Trump reimposed sanctions in 2018, the Iranian rial, its local currency, dropped to a record low.
Iran is currently in a deep recession and has been since the sanctions were put in place.
"I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to 'just do it,' but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn't get it done," the Republican wrote on Truth Social.
"I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come - And they know how to use it."
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Since then, Israel launched a major attack in the early hours of this morning (June 13) that set off explosions in the Iranian capital Tehran.
Israel said it hit 'dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas of Iran', killing Iran's top military and nuclear scientists (via the BBC).
Israel's attack comes as tensions have escalated over Iran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that the strikes were 'a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival'.
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Trump's post continued: "Certain Iranian hardliner's spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!
"There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end.
"Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!"
He later added: "Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to 'make a deal.' They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn't get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!"
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He also told CNN that the strikes were a 'very successful attack', adding that the US 'supports Israel'.
Topics: Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, Politics, World News
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