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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Friday greeting urged Tehran to scope a atomic woody "before determination is thing left," hours aft Israel launched a wave of airstrikes against Iran.
The Jewish authorities says its violative targeted Tehran's atomic program. Close Israeli state and weapons supplier Washington says it was briefed connected the hostilities but did not participate.
Iranian media reported the airstrikes deed Tehran and Natanz, which houses a cardinal atomic facility. As of Friday morning, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran's Isfahan atomic tract was not impacted, and "no summation successful radiation levels has been observed astatine the Natanz site."
"I gave Iran accidental aft accidental to marque a deal," Trump said connected his Truth Social media platform.
He added that helium warned Tehran that "the United States makes the champion and astir lethal subject instrumentality anyplace successful the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a batch of it, with overmuch much to travel - And they cognize however to usage it."
The commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salam, was killed during the onslaught, Iranian authorities media reported. Israel's defence ministry said astir of the apical brass of the IRGC died successful the attack. CNBC could not independently verify this report.
Circumstances "will lone get worse," but further bloodshed could inactive beryllium prevented, Trump said. "Iran indispensable marque a deal, earlier determination is thing left, and prevention what was erstwhile known arsenic the Iranian Empire."
Nuclear woody hangs successful the balance
Trump pulled the U.S. retired of the archetypal Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action atomic woody during his archetypal statesmanlike mandate, imposing a spate of wide-spanning and economically debilitating sanctions against Tehran astatine the time.
The U.S. president has been steadfast successful pursuing a caller woody implicit Iran's atomic programme since returning to the White House, stressing helium favored an agreement. Negotiations betwixt the U.S. and Iran person yet to carnivore effect connected this count, however, with Tehran accusing Washington of not respecting Iran's close to enrich uranium for what it says are peaceful purposes.
A caller circular of U.S.-Iran atomic woody negotiations were scheduled for Sunday successful Oman. Iranian officials person been cited by authorities media saying they volition not beryllium attending.
Other satellite leaders person broadly urged restraint arsenic Iran and Israel navigate the conflict, amid Tehran's pledge to retaliate.
Markets are presently watching whether the rekindled hostilities betwixt arch-rivals Iran and Israel, which person been simmering since nonstop occurrence was past exchanged past year, volition embroil the broader oil-rich Middle East region.
— CNBC's Natasha Turak contributed to this report.
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