Israel is Considering to take military measures Against Iran in the next few days, according to three sources familiar with the situation.
The sources were not aware of a specific role in the United States in an Israeli strike against Iran, although it is possible that the United States can play a logistics role and share intelligence with Israel that could be used for such an attack.
Currently, the United States has planned nuclear conversations with Iranian officials this weekend.
“The main advisor and special envoy Steve Witkoff plans to travel to Muscat on Sunday for a sixth round of conversations with Iran,” according to a source familiar with his plans. “Discussions are expected to be direct and indirect, as in previous rounds.”
Iranian president, Masoud fishshkian, said Thursday that his country will continue to enrich uranium and promised to rebuild the facilities if they are destroyed, since tensions in the Middle East around a possible nuclear agreement of the United States-I will and a possible Israeli strike if there is no agreement in balance.
“We will go on our own way and we will have enrichment,” said fishshkian during the comments in Ilam, a western province of Iran.
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, and the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Eli Cohen, attend the speech of the President of Argentina to a session of the Israeli Parliament at its headquarters in Jerusalem on June 11, 2025.
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“We will build this country with these same young people. It is not as if, for example, someone bombards our place, that is the end. All this is in mind. Whatever they do, we will rebuild,” added fishshkian.
The Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, was asked about the possible military action during an audience of the Chamber’s Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
“Will you get up today and make it clear [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu that climb, what is threatening yesterday, is not of American interest: shouldn’t it drag the United States to the war with Iran? “, Representative RO Khanna, D-Calif., Hegseth asked.
“Well, congressman, that question included a lot of speculation,” Hegseth replied. “What I know is that Bibi Netanyahu will put his country first, and we are going to put our country first, and we are properly positioned in the region … for any possible contingency.”
Hegseth added that the United States and President Donald Trump are still “committed to creating conditions for peace.”
Shannon K. Kingston and Othon Leyva of ABC News contributed to this report.
