President Donald Trump is telling Iran there "is still time" to make a deal over the country's nuclear program after Israel launched large attack on the country's nuclear sites.
"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," Trump wrote on social media June 13 after the attacks. "Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left."
The Trump administration has been negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program with the goal of preventing the country from obtaining a nuclear bomb. Although Iran insists its nuclear program is for civilian energy purposes only, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, recently concluded that Iran was very close to reaching the 90% uranium enrichment level required to build a nuclear weapon.
"I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal," Trump said in his post. "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 Israel Defense Forces said more than 200 of its fighter jets struck dozens of targets in Iran June 13 as part of a wave of attacks. The IDF said it successfully "damaged" an underground area of Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, a district in central Iran, that contained a "multi-story enrichment hall with centrifuges, electrical rooms and additional supporting infrastructure."
