President Donald Trump reportedly shut down an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Trump has left the door open to formal U.S. entry into the battle, however has been publicly urging peace and diplomacy as an alternative.
On Sunday, Reuters reported that two U.S. officers confirmed Trump put a cease to Israel’s plan to kill Khamenei. Axios reporter Barak Ravid and Fox Information additionally cited sources saying the identical factor.
“Have the Iranians killed an American but? No. Till they can we’re not even speaking about going after the political management,” mentioned one in all Reuters’ sources, who they described as a senior U.S. administration official.
The sources mentioned that the White Home has been in fixed communication with Israel because the strikes started three days in the past.
The report states, “The officers wouldn’t say whether or not Trump himself delivered the message. However Trump has been in frequent communications with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was requested in regards to the report throughout an interview with Fox Information pundit Brett Baier.
“There’s so many false studies of conversations that by no means occurred, and I am not going to get into that,” Netanyahu mentioned, neither confirming or denying the declare.
“However I can inform you, I feel that we do what we have to do, we’ll do what we have to do. And I feel the US is aware of what is nice for the US,” Netanyahu added.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, simply after midnight on Sunday morning, Trump had posted to Reality Social, “The U.S. had nothing to do with the assault on Iran, tonight. If we’re attacked in any approach, form or type by Iran, the complete power and may of the U.S. Armed Forces will come down on you at ranges by no means seen earlier than. Nonetheless, we will simply get a deal performed between Iran and Israel, and finish this bloody battle!!!”
Later within the morning, Trump urged either side to make a deal.
“Iran and Israel ought to make a deal, and can make a deal, similar to I acquired India and Pakistan to make, in that case through the use of TRADE with the US to convey purpose, cohesion, and sanity into the talks with two wonderful leaders who have been capable of shortly decide and STOP! Additionally, throughout my first time period, Serbia and Kosovo have been going at it sizzling and heavy, as they’ve for a lot of a long time, and this very long time battle was prepared to interrupt out into WAR. I finished it (Biden has harm the long term prospects with some very silly selections, however I’ll repair it, once more!). One other case is Egypt and Ethiopia, and their combat over a large dam that’s having an impact on the magnificent Nile River. There may be peace, at the very least for now, due to my intervention, and it’ll keep that approach! Likewise, we could have PEACE, quickly, between Israel and Iran! Many calls and conferences now going down. I do rather a lot, and by no means get credit score for something, however that’s OK, the PEOPLE perceive. MAKE THE MIDDLE EAST GREAT AGAIN!”
President Trump’s Director of Nationwide Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified in March that the intel group continues to evaluate that Iran has not resumed making an attempt to construct a nuclear weapon because the program was suspended by Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2003.
Testifying earlier than the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 27 to supply the Intelligence Neighborhood’s 2025 Annual Menace Evaluation, Gabbard acknowledged in no unsure phrases, the US intelligence group “continues to evaluate that Iran is just not constructing a nuclear weapon and Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not licensed the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”
“The IC is monitoring if Tehran decides to reauthorise,” Gabbard added.
The annual menace evaluation is the consensus of the 18 U.S. intelligence parts making up the U.S. Intelligence Neighborhood.
Because the Nineteen Nineties, Netanyahu has repeatedly claimed that Iran is on the verge of growing nuclear weapons, typically citing brief timelines for his or her functionality.
In 1992, Netanyahu warned that Iran was three to 5 years from buying a nuclear bomb, a declare reiterated in his 1995 ebook Preventing Terrorism, the place he predicted Iran would obtain this by 2000. He echoed related warnings in congressional testimony in 1996, 2002, and on the United Nations in 2012, famously utilizing a cartoon bomb graphic to claim Iran was lower than a 12 months away from enough weapons-grade uranium.
In 2018, Netanyahu offered paperwork, obtained by Israeli intelligence, alleging Iran’s secret nuclear program continued covertly after its 2003 suspension. In 2025, he justified airstrikes on Iranian amenities, claiming Iran might produce a bomb in “months.” These claims have persistently prompt an imminent menace, typically providing deadlines which have handed with out proof of an energetic Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Since 2007, U.S. assessments have maintained that Iran halted its structured nuclear weapons program in 2003, with no proof of a call to restart it.
In 2012, Israeli intelligence, per leaked cables, aligned with U.S. findings, admitting Iran was “not performing the exercise crucial to provide weapons,” regardless of Netanyahu’s public claims. Critics, together with former Mossad chief Meir Dagan in 2011, have argued the prime minister’s warnings exaggerate the menace, doubtlessly to justify navy motion or derail diplomatic efforts just like the 2015 nuclear deal, which he fiercely opposed.
