Trump Tells Netanyahu to “Keep Going” as Israel Hits More Iranian Nuke-Related Sites
Israeli Air Force struck Iran’s nuclear centrifuge production site, missiles manufacturing facilities.

In what appears to be a green light for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s preemptive strike against the Iranian regime enters its sixth day, President Donald Trump told the Israeli leader to ‘keep going.”
“I said, ‘Keep going,'” President Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about his recent conversation with the Israeli prime minister.
NOW – Trump says he speaks to Netanyahu "every day" and told him to "keep going." pic.twitter.com/zAEUlmLIQt
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 18, 2025
Expressing his support for Israel’s wartime prime minister, Trump said: “I speak to him every day. He’s a good man.”
The president confirmed that Tehran was finally interested in negotiating after ignoring his 60-day ultimatum, but it is “very late to be talking.”
He refused to comment on speculations regarding a possible U.S. strike on Iran, adding, “I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
The Wall Street Journal reported:
President Trump said Wednesday that he told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “keep going” as it carries out strikes against Iran. Trump and Netanyahu spoke by telephone on Tuesday, a White House official said. “I speak to him every day,” Trump told reporters on the White House’s South Lawn. “So far, he’s been doing a good job.”
Asked what his response was to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said earlier that his country wouldn’t surrender, Trump replied: “Good luck.” He also said his patience has “already run out” with the country. “That’s why we’re doing what we’re doing.”
The remarks come as the Trump administration weighs all options amid ongoing Israeli aerial operations against Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers Wednesday that the Pentagon was providing possible options to Trump as he decides next steps on Iran,” The Associated Press observed.
Israeli Air Force struck Iran’s nuclear centrifuge production site, missile manufacturing facilities
As part of the operation ‘Rising Lion,’ Israeli fighter jets, on Wednesday, struck Iran’s nuclear centrifuge production facility and several missile manufacturing sites.
According to the IDF, the latest round of strikes was “against the Iranian regime’s project to develop nuclear weapons and its missile production industry.”
“Over the past few hours, more than 50 IAF fighter jets completed a series of intelligence-based strikes on military targets in the area of Tehran,” the IDF said in a statement Wednesday.
The centrifuges used for enriching weapons-grade uranium are central to Iran’s advancing nuclear weapons program. “As part of the broad effort to operate against Iran’s nuclear weapons development project, the IAF struck a facility used to manufacture centrifuges in Tehran that was designed to enable the Iranian regime to expand the scale and speed of its uranium enrichment to develop nuclear weapons,” the IDF disclosed.
Iranian facilities producing long-range and air defense missiles were also struck. “The IAF also struck several weapons manufacturing sites overnight, including a facility used to produce raw materials and components for the assembly of surface-to-surface missiles, which the Iranian regime has fired and continues to fire toward the State of Israel. In addition, a facility for manufacturing components of surface-to-air missiles designed to attack aircraft was also struck,” the IDF statement added.
Significant strikes in Karaj, Iran that was reported a short time ago. pic.twitter.com/JRgzxUfPBf
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) June 18, 2025
Israel hits military base in Western Iran, destroys attack helicopters
Israeli fighter jets targeted a military base and destroyed several attack helicopters on the ground in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah.
“The IAF identified and struck five Iranian AH-1 attack helicopters that were at a military base in the Kermanshah area,” the Israeli military revealed in a separate statement. “These helicopters were intended to target IAF aircraft operating in Iranian airspace.”
The Israeli Air Force bombed another three Iranian AH-1 helicopters at a military base in Kermanshah a short while ago, the IDF says.
"These helicopters are intended to target air force aircraft operating in Iranian airspace," the military says.
Earlier, the IDF says it… pic.twitter.com/SLE7WCjo0z
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) June 18, 2025
On Wednesday morning, Israeli fighter jets “completed a series of strikes on military targets in western Iran, approximately 25 fighter jets struck over 40 missile infrastructure components directed toward the State of Israel, including missile storage sites and military operatives of the Iranian Regime,” the IDF said. “Additionally, overnight, IAF fighter jets struck a loaded and “Emad” missile launcher ready-to-launch toward Israeli civilians.”

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just dont re bomb the rubble
lefty will make more attacks in the eu and america as they always do
they do it whether this war was going on or not
they murder people over cartoon drawings
The real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, explained (67min video), Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy, June 17, 2025
“The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? Ben Norton explains the imperial strategy to impose US hegemony in West Asia (aka the Middle East), destroy the Axis of Resistance, colonize Palestine, destabilize the revolutionary Iranian government, preserve the petrodollar system, prevent de-dollarization, divide BRICS, and break up the Iran-Russia-China partnership.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwH780cEcEQ
As long as they don’t expect us to put boots on the ground, Israel can bomb Iran all they want.
Well McCain gets what he always wanted
“Bomb bomb Iran”
Of course Jeannie Perrino said pretty much the same thing
Only added
“And bomb them again”
depends whether or not it’s in our interest to put our own boys (US) boots on the ground;
remember the Ayatollah’s been responsible (through the Houthis) for interdicting our shipping at the Bab al Mandab Strait bottleneck.
This matter does not need American boots on the ground so keep them shiny and new. Both the US and Israel should not want American bunker busters to blow up Fordow because it is much better to capture it whole, then the world can see what Iran was building in there. Ali Khamenei is probably dead right now and several Iranian governmental planes, loaded with people, have fled to Oman. The game is almost up
What’s the source on this piece of information?
This what I found.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/three-iranian-aircraft-including-presidential-plane-seen-heading-to-oman/
Thank you.
I’m surprised that just asking where some information came from in a circumstance of a great deal of uncertainty netted me a thumb down.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t be surprised. This is the internet.
Re thumbs down: some troll has been doing that to many of us, so don’t take as a slight.
About the only source out of Israel I half way trust, no slight to it but I don’t trust any msm completely, is The Jerusalem Post. I can find no other source for the report and while I don’t think it’s far fetched I don’t generally believe a one source story.
I tend to look at all news from the Times of Israel with a jaundiced eye; lik,e our MSM, they sometimes report what they believe their readership would like to hear
I’m partial to Israel National News aka Arutz 7.
I’m impressed that TOI ran a story that didn’t end by obsessing over Netanyahu.
“This matter does not need American boots on the ground so keep them shiny and new. Both the US and Israel should not want American bunker busters to blow up Fordow because it is much better to capture it whole, then the world can see what Iran was building in there.”
You cant have it both ways. To capture it requires American boots on the ground. Its 250 feet inside a mountain. Chasing insane mullahs into a mountainside full of Uranium is dumb.
Just bomb the shit out of it, and then bomb it again.
Also interested in the source for that. I admit to being dubious about capturing and displaying Fordow. I don’t see Israel being willing or able to occupy Iran and Fordow is well inside, which means a larger occupation area.
Subotai Bahadur
Besides the usual crowd would simply dismiss it as Israeli propaganda.
How about we just blow it up? With only a small airborne battalion (that hasn’t seen combat since I was a toddler) and a limited number of heavy-life helos, there’s little chance IDF is going to attempt to take and hold Fordow considering it’s very near Qom, which is the largest stronghold for the IRGC….which is why they built Fordow where they did. QOM is the IRGC home, both spiritually and culturally. IDF is built for homeland defense and limited covert actions. The only military capable of an extended expeditionary action (to take and hold a strategic target) against an adversary with light & heavy armor is….US. No one wants boots on the ground, particularly US boots on the ground.
now the plo will have a place of its own and they can rebuild from the ground up and never even have to leave
take those hard working blm and you will have that
crime free food for free
housing for free
education for free
that you always claimed others were holding you back from
its allll yours
And I ran
I ran so far away away
And I ran, I ran so far away
I just ran, I ran all night and day
I couldn’t get away
The PLO are Muslims. Iranians are Persians and very proud of the fact they are Persians. Big difference.
I highly doubt Persians are about to welcome some other Muslim cray crays in to their mix just after they’ve just been freed from their home grown crazies!
The PLO is an Arab nationalist organization. Iranians are indeed Persians. Those terms describe their ethnicity. With respect to their religious identities, they’re both Muslims with the former being Suni and the latter being Shia, although there is a Suni minority in Iran.
You clearly don’t understand Persians at all 😂 They are deathly proud they aren’t Muslims or Arabs and will happily tell you this every chance they get 😂
The PLO is indeed NOT a Persian institution because it’s Arab in nature…which Iranians are not.
Also another reason you probably will not see Syria 3.0 with Iranian factions trying to out kill each other for power. They seem a more monolithic bloc compared to tribal Muslims/arabs.
“They are deathly proud they aren’t Muslims…”
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read in my life. Iran is 95% Muslim. It’s governed by a Muslim theocracy. ‘Ayatollah’ is a Muslim title, not a Persian title.
Siri, show us someone who doesn’t know anything about Persians and knows nothing about Iran and the moooolahs and how they are detested by every day Iranians 😂😂
Except for your last clause, that would be you.
I think you’re confusing Muslims & Arabs, two overlapping categories.
You do not have a clue about what you are talking about
“You do not have a clue about what you are talking about”
Perhaps the most unself-aware comment in the history oF Legal Insurrection.
Fordow is where they refine uranium and it is deep underground. It will be interesting and critical to see if Israel can take it out through bombing. If not either the US will have to do it or Israel will need to put boots on the ground. There are only two acceptable options here. Either regime change with shutdown and destruction of the facility or outright destruction of the facility any way possible.
the biggest question is can we trust the Pahlavi family (should we see definite regime change) with Fordow?
are we willing to bet that the IRGC will not attempt to take it over/defend it to the last martyr/blow it up with all our boys inside it?
No US troops. Any troops would be Israel to invade and mine with explosives and leave.
Nope. No US boots on the ground, no ‘nation building’, no peace keeping, no rebuilding. Hell no to all of that neocon military adventurism. If whatever group emerges from the ashes to run Iran gets out of line and threatens US National Security then we can address that later on after we restock the inventory of missiles and bombs. No more USA as world police for.the globalist goons and the neocon meddling in other Nations for their fun and profit.
Israel doesn’t have enough boots for that. Or enough chayalim to fill them.
My predicted schedule for regime change:
Early window: This weekend.
Likely window: By July.
Outter window: Labor Day weekend.
It’s not going this far w/out getting to the finish line. There’s no turning back for Iran now.
Donald J Trump has made America infinitely safer, cracked down on one of the main sources of narco trafficking and did so without any price to America.
That is what peace through strength looks like and one reason we should all be grateful to have Donald J Trump instead of someone like Tucker Carlson of Qatar.
You ok Danny? 🤔😜
Mossad and IDF again for the win:
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-858221
IDF reports that the newest head of the Iranian military was bugging out of Tehran on Monday, along with “dozens” of senior IRGC commanders, to a “secret” retreat location in the mountains where they could regroup, plan, and avoid being taken out.
But of course Mossad knew exactly where they were going. So the IDF let all of them get out of Tehran and gather together in the mountains . . . and then launched an air strike took all of them out, with no collateral damage.
Intelligence and operational brilliance.
Beautiful. Just beautiful 😂😂
“Make the rubble bounce” ~ Sir Winston Churchill
I would much prefer for the US to stay on the side. The US has not had a good track lately oh exit strategies. Moreover, if Israel can do this on its own without direct American intervention, it’s status in the Arab world will go up a great deal. The final goal for Israel is the destruction of Fordo, contrary to Gersh204 above. It is impractical for Israel to land troops, and it would be better for everyone if the US stayed on the sidelines (as I said earlier). Israel has small bunker busters which can be released sequentially to drill down (or as I like to say jackhammer down) to destroy Fordo.
Surprised the juices didn’t snap up some old F111’s and prepared those for strategic bombing? But what do I know 🤷♂️🤔🙂
You can’t just add a plane to your inventory. There is a lot of effort involved in training pilots and maintenance staff. It is a big investment in time, people and treasure. One of the ex AF people can better comment on this than I.
Yes, ex-F-111 avionics tech here.
The Aardvark was an extremely complex aircraft. Although it had leading-edge avionics, engines, and airframes, it was so far ahead of its time that it was expensive to maintain. That said … there’s something impressive about an aircraft that can penetrate enemy airspace in any weather conditions a few hundred feet off the deck at well over Mach 1 (Mach 2+ with a clean configuration) and deliver tons of ordnance with pinpoint accuracy without having to refuel every couple of hours. And that was with 1960s-1970s technology.
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f111’s have been on the market for decades. This isn’t about just adding them today but long term planning many many years ago.
Going to go back to long, long ago when the earth was new and I was . . . involved . . . with defense topics. I should note that I was invited as a guest several times inside Cheyenne Mountain when it was NORAD HQ. I will also note that my conjectures may be dead wrong and thus organic end product.
Now mountains are wonderful places to put a facility you do not want to be attacked and taken out. The separation is fairly absolute. That can be a good thing defensively; but obviously once you tunnel into a mountain, you are left with bare tunnels in a mountain and you have to bring in all of the equipment you want to work with, and the supplies and logistics train involved. And you have to keep that logistics train running in order to function.
In the tunnels built into Fordow Mountain outside the shrine city of Qom is where the Islamic regime has placed their end stage fissionable materials purification facility. It’s purpose is to refine what I am assuming is U-235 or Plutonium to weapons grade. Being a bloody mountain, it is assumed that it will take either a nuclear/thermonuclear warhead or a specialized deep penetrator conventional bomb [it is not the amount of explosives that penetrates, but the design of the bomb and its velocity] to take out that facility. It is also expected that Iran is within days of having that weapons grade fissionable material; which means that things could get downright exciting.
They have the facility built [and it has been operating for years] inside the mountain. And they are hard at it now. But for them to continue, that logistics train has to keep running. Without adequate supplies it all goes TANGO UNIFORM.
So, what do the need? They need a supply of raw material, i.e. partially refined fissionable material. In order to work with it, they need industrial amounts of electricity. They will also need industrial amounts of water [for the process and for the workers]. They will need an assortment of chemicals, catalysts, and additives for the purification process. And they have to get the purified weapons grade materials out to wherever they are going to fabricate the device into whatever weapon and means of delivery they plan. I am fairly sure that they do not have the ability to fabricate even a simple “gun-type” device and make it a weapons system inside the mountain.
Then there is the matter of the personnel of the facility. The number of people who can work there is limited, and the staff is not fungible with the bulk of the Iranian population. They have the same requirements for life as other people, and while they may be more fanatical than most, they need water, breathable air, and food. And without them, work comes to a stop.
The State of Israel is famed for the quality of its intel organizations. And, unlike a lot of countries, they do have and have had satellites including strategic reconnaissance satellites for a lot of years. You can bet more than a few Shekels that a lot of their attention has been focused on the Iranian nuclear program in general and Fordow in particular.
I’m going to rush through this, but you will get the idea. The electricity is not going to be coming through a 110 volt extension cord. It is going to involve multiple high tension lines that hold still. They can be taken out with conventional precision weapons, and indeed they can be followed back to the also stationary generating plants that can be taken out. You might say that they surely will have back up generators, and indeed they will. But if they can be thrown back on that supply; a) it limits what they can do, and b) if it involves internal combustion it risks degrading the air supply AND will fit in with a another attack mode below.
Water in the quantities needed for both the facility and the people will come in through either pipes or open waterways. They can be taken out with PGM’s. Think Operation CHASTISE in WW-II.
Materials and people have to come in through more conventional sized openings. Now while it is sure that they are designed so that a strike on them will not destroy the facility; if they can be hit with PGM’s and larger munitions so as to block them, then nothing and no one comes in or out. And production stops eventually.
Finally, there are other key points. Israel has been watching for an awful long time, and I trust their competence to have been using not only visible light but also Infrared, UV, and probably other frequency bands I have not heard of being used for recon.
There are surely dozens of vents, and they will have been spotted by that recon. Some for incoming air both to breath and for whatever processes are going on within. Some of them are exhaust vents; for breathing air, some for toxic waste gases, some for possible combustion byproducts. By now, I would assume that Israel has located most or all of them.
So let us consider another mass surprise strike, this time on Fordow. All at once, power, water, access for people and materials, and air. Leave them in the dark with the air getting thicker and thicker. As an additional factor, if it is possible to get white phosphorus into the vents, the air will quickly become unbreathable speeding the process of taking out the facility. I note that white phosphorus is NOT banned by any international convention.
And if the war continues, the interdiction of Fordow can too.
Subotai Bahadur
This is the kind of insight that makes LI an amazing place to visit.
Giving you all the thumbs up…while also wondering why JR hadn’t down voted you yet? 🤔😂
I second your observation. (I see troll voting you down.)
Looks like you got Junior’s downvote.
LI admins refuse to take action.
Naw, let the moron show us his real colours every time he posts or down votes here.
FYI: White phosphorus is not illegal under international law and the law of armed conflict, as long as long it is being used defensively as a smokescreen or as battlefield illumination. As for other uses they probably fall into a grey area, I;m sure the ICC would consider it a war crime but then again they consider much of what Israel does to be war crimes.
It seems that this plan is something Israel could readily execute, with perhaps some “drill” bombing as needed. Alternatively, I would think that even “routine” bombing by 50 planes a day for a month would pulverize the first 50 feet of key surface areas of the mountain and entomb anything inside.
To paraphrase the late great Margaret Thatcher to President GHW Bush, “this is no time to go wobbly.”
I worry the mullahs will try to rope a dope the west into more talks under the guise of “yes, we surrender, just let us stay in power.” and in a year or three, we will be faced with the same situation.
So I say stay the course. If Israel can eliminate the underground enrichment facility without either using nukes or the US dropping a US bunker buster bomb MOP (with the inevitable entanglement), I say “let ‘er rip!!”
The cost in treasure and in lives to penetrate Fordow Is going to be extremely high unless the U.S. gets actively involved with its bombers. Clearly “no one” in the U.S. wants to do that if it can at all be avoided and Trump really does seem to be very adverse to involving the U.S. in any foreign adventures.
So, the better option is regime change with the Mullahs alive and on a plane out of the country. If they are killed you run some risk of a fanatical resistance movement from Hezbollah et al. However if you get them to scurry away like chickens with just enough billions to live comfortably in exile, any resistance movement will lose heart.
Will bombing the sauce out of the country daily work to accomplish that? Historically it has not. However, it is certainly worth trying for a month or two.
The Iranian army would have to come to the conclusion that they are definitely backing a loser AND that they would be permitted to hold power in a transitional government. That “future role” would give them post-coup security against loss of life and property. Without that, with nothing to lose they may choose to go down fighting. An example of their role might be like that of the military in Egypt where they stay out of things unless they start to go off the rails. They the step in with a secular military government until a new more central government can be formed.
Finally, if the army is destroyed and dismantled we may end up with a situation as we did in Iraq. Better to keep them employed and putting down splinter groups and would-be revolutionists.
Unlike past Democrat Administrations, Trump is doing what he should as President which is not telling anyone what he and The US might do. It’s how you negotiate. I don’t find this surprising, what I found surprising was Obama’s complete capitulation to Iran going so far as paying them off so the Iranian regime knew the US was not going to do anything and they had a free hand.
For people hyperventilating over “boots on the ground” and the Dems sudden interest in reigning in a Presidents authority to use US forces, Trump has not brought it up. It’s just more “Trump Is A King and Crazy” crap by the left and the media.
Barry Hussein hated the Jews and so did his chief of staff, the guy with the English degree whose nickname was Hamas. So it was no surprise Barry Hussein was all onboard the Iran nuke plan.
Must be galling for these One Government WEF approved stooges that their plans have both been unravelled and unravelled quickly and with ease.
You can see why they wanted Trump dead or out of the way in prison.