News Desk
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump reacted to a Wall Street Journal report claiming he privately approved attack plans for Iran but delayed a final go-ahead in hopes Iran would abandon its nuclear programme.
Taking to the social media platform — Truth Social, Trump said: “The Wall Street Journal has No Idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran!”
As of yesterday, Trump said he was still unsure about authorising a strike, Al Jazeera reported.
“We’ll see what happens. I’ve been asked about it by everybody, but I haven’t made a decision,” he told reporters.
Meanwhile, Turkey has stepped up security on its border with Iran since the start of Tehran’s conflict with Israel, but has not yet seen any increase in people trying to cross the frontier, a Turkish Defence Ministry source said on Thursday.
Turkey — a NATO member which shares a 560-km (350-mile) border with Iran — has condemned Israel’s attacks on Iran, saying they violate international law.
It has also offered to help arrange a resumption of nuclear talks between Iran and the United States.
“Intense security precautions have been taken via additional measures at all our borders including with Iran,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
There were no signs of “a mass immigration wave toward Turkey,” the source added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday to “remove” the nuclear and ballistic missile threat posed by Iran, on the seventh day of war between the arch foes.
“We are committed to destroying the nuclear threat, the threat of a nuclear annihilation against Israel,” Netanyahu told reporters in the southern city of Beersheba, where a hospital was hit during an Iranian missile attack.
“Our goal is twofold — nuclear, ballistic missile. We’re going to remove them. We are in the process of completing the [removal of] this threat.”
