President Donald Trump warned Iran that further attacks will be 'even more brutal' if it does not agree to a deal following Israel's shock strikes on its nuclear and military facilities.
Overnight, Operation Rising Lion targeted Tehran, as well as Iran's nuclear sites, in a devastating wave of assaults, escalating fears the Middle East is on the brink of all-out war.
Explosions boomed across the Iranian capital as simultaneous raids hit buildings believed to be the homes of senior military commanders.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the sophisticated operation, which involved a barrage of explosive-laden drones and more than 200 Israeli jets, targeted an Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz, and the country's ballistic missile program, thanks to a secret drone base set up in Iran by Mossad.
Though the US initially sought to distance itself from the attack, Trump has now told Iran: 'There is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end.'
He said in a post to Truth Social: 'I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. 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.
'I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States 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 hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!
