Trump considers joining Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites

President Donald Trump plans to join the opportunity to join the strikes of Israel on Iranian nuclear sites, while the conflict continues for a sixth day and an angry rhetoric increases between all parties.

American strikes could involve using superior weapons to strike an underground nuclear site in Fordo, according to five sources that spoke to the American partner of the BBC CBS News.

The president met his national security team on Tuesday to discuss the next steps.

Israel and Iran have exchanged deadly strikes since Friday. Analysts say that Trump’s comments suggest a desire to join the Israelis, despite his call prior to de -escalation and vocal support to a diplomatic solution to limit Nuclear Research of Iran.

He showed growing frustration in the face of a lack of progress perceived to ensure a new agreement which would aim to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Trump withdrew from a previous agreement with Iran during his first mandate.

In an article on social networks Tuesday, Trump threatened Iranian supreme chief Ali Khamenei and said the United States knew where he was.

“He’s an easy target, but he’s sure there,” wrote Trump. “We are not going to get him out (kill!), At least not for the moment. But we don’t want missiles to be pulled on civilians or American soldiers. Our patience is thin.”

Another article by Trump simply read: “Unconditional addition!”

On Wednesday, the supreme chief of Iran responded directly to the comments and said that the country never surrenders.

“Any form of American military intervention will undoubtedly encounter irreparable damage,” said Khamenei.

“The wise people who know Iran, its people and its history never speak to this nation in the language of threats, because the Iranians are not those who surrender,” he added.

The United States has insisted on the fact that Iran must remove its enrichment of uranium to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons – although Iran insists that its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful.

Trump withdrew from a previous nuclear agreement between Iran and five other world powers in 2018. After going back to the post, he sent negotiators to try to conclude a new agreement with the Middle East nation, without breakthrough.

Trump seems to have cooled by traditional diplomacy in recent days. Tuesday, returning to the United States from a G7 summit in Canada, he said that he was “not too much mood to negotiate with Iran”.

Trump’s frustrated language implied that he was crossing a threshold that would be “very difficult to row,” said Professor Amnon Aran, an Israeli foreign policy expert, told BBC Radio 5 Live.

“We are certainly the closest that we have been” from an American entry into the conflict since he started, he added.

Other experts have suggested that Trump could be forced to action. A former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, hypothesized that the president would have felt that he had no choice but to intervene if Iran attacked an American ship or base.

However, such an attack could also be an Iranian tactic to encourage Trump to put pressure on Israel to negotiate the end of the fighting, BBC Radio 4.

Trump himself told journalists on his return from the G7 that his goal was “an end, a real end, not a cease-fire”. His comments intervened only a few hours after joining other leaders of the Western Alliance in the publication of a declaration which called for a de-escalation in the Middle East.

Trump left the summit early to respond to the Washington crisis, before a series of statements leaves the observers not very clear in which direction he could choose to go.

A message urging the Iranians to evacuate Tehran also caused a wave of speculation, as well as anxiety in the Iranian capital itself.

The American Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announced earlier the “deployment of additional capacities” in the Middle East to improve the “defensive posture” of the Pentagon, despite the denial of American officials at the time that they joined military action.

At least 30 US military planes have been moved to America to Europe in the past three days, have shown the flight tracking data examined by BBC Verify.

It was not clear if the American movements were directly linked to the Israeli-Iranian conflict, but an expert said that the flights of oil aircraft were “very unusual”.

Another expert said that movements could be part of a broader policy of “strategic ambiguity” aimed at influencing Iran to make concessions.

Registration for Israeli military action does not have the complete agreement of the closest advisers to Trump, CBS reported. But dissident voices have not become public.

There is also a wide range of views in the base of Trump supporters. The Republican presented himself to his re-election on the grounds that he would disentangle America from conflicts abroad, and he previously criticized the American intervention in the Middle East.

On the question of Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon, there seems to be a different assessment of Trump and its national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard.

Asked Tuesday about Gabbard’s previous suggestion that Iran did not work on a nuclear warhead, Trump replied: “I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one.”

Trump and Gabbard’s advisers then denied that the pair is disagreeing on the issue.

There was no death of the day after Tuesday to Wednesday in Israel Iranian missile attacks.

And more than 50 Israeli fighter planes carried out operations in Iran overnight, with strikes on an Iranian centrifuge, a missile production center near Tehran and a university linked to the Iran revolution guards.

Israel is the main American partner in the Middle East, and Trump continued to stand with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the midst of a general international conviction of Israel’s military actions in Gaza following Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023.