President Trump said he is seeking “a real end” to the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran and demanded a “complete give-up” by Tehran — as Israeli forces claim they’ve killed another Iranian senior military commander.
“I’m not asking for a cease-fire, we’re looking at better than a cease-fire,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the G7 summit in Canada.
Trump clarified he wants to see “an end, a real end, not a cease-fire” and called for a “complete give-up” on Iran’s end.
Trump also strongly denied contacting Iran in an attempt to broker peace talks after French President Emmanuel Macron said he had.
“I have not reached out to Iran for ‘Peace Talks’ in any way, shape, or form. This is just more HIGHLY FABRICATED, FAKE NEWS!” he raged on Truth Social Monday night.
“If they want to talk, they know how to reach me. They should have taken the deal that was on the table – Would have saved a lot of lives!!!”
The president told reporters during his midnight departure from the G7 that he does not expect Israel to hold back its attacks on Iran.
“You’re going to find out over the next two days. You’re going to find out. Nobody’s slowed up so far,” a CBS journalist quoted Trump as saying on Air Force One.
Meanwhile, Israel confirmed on Tuesday it had killed Ali Shadmani, Iran’s wartime chief of staff and its most senior military commander, in the latest blow to Iran’s already decimated military leadership.
More than 20 of Iran’s senior military officers have been killed since the two countries began exchanging missile fire on Friday.
Trump reportedly plans to offer Iran a “last chance” to accept a nuclear deal amid Israel’s ongoing attacks on Tehran, which have forced thousands to flee the capital city.
Israel launched Operation Rising Lion last week, bombing key nuclear and military sites deep within Iran, and taking out some of Iran’s top scientists and leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Israel claimed that Iran appeared to be on the brink of building a nuclear warhead as talks with the US on a nuclear deal fell through.
The military operation, which is expected to continue for possibly weeks, came at the end of a 60-day window Trump gave Iran to strike a deal that would rid it of its capabilities to produce a nuclear weapon.
Iran in turn retaliated by firing ballistic missile barrages toward Israel, some of which have hit densely populated areas, killing civilians.
