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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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