‘Just Do It.’ Trump Says Iran Can Still Make a Nuclear Deal With US Following Deadly Strikes

Following Israel’s targeted strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and top military leaders Thursday, President Donald Trump says “there is still time” for Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. 

“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday morning, about 10 hours after Israel first launched the strikes on Iran.  

“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,” Trump said, adding that he told Iran’s leaders that failure to reach a deal with the U.S. “would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told.”  

Trump wrote that he warned Iran that the U.S. “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. Certain Iranian hard-liners spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all dead now, and it will only get worse!”  

Israeli strikes are reported to have killed Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander in chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Gen. Gholamali Rashid, the deputy commander of Iran’s armed forces; Brig. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff for Iran’s armed forces; and Ali Shamkhani, a top Iranian naval officer. Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, two nuclear scientists, have reportedly also been killed.   

“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 said.  

Israel targeted multiple Iran nuclear facilities, including the Natanz Nuclear Facility, Iran’s largest uranium enrichment complex, and multiple military bases.  

“Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire,” the president said. “No more death, no more destruction, just do it, before it is too late. God bless you all! 

U.S. and Iranian leaders were scheduled to hold a sixth round of nuclear negotiations in Oman on Sunday, but Iran withdrew from the talk following the Israeli strikes, according to the Times of Oman.  

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. was not involved in the strikes on Iran.  

Thursday marked the end of the 60-day deadline Trump set for negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.  

“Today is day 61,” Trump said Friday morning. “I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!”  

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