Trump: Attack on Iran is excellent

US President Donald Trump told ABC News that his administration gave the Iranians an opportunity, but they failed to take advantage and suffered a very severe blow, stressing that there is more to come.

Speaking to the network, Trump described the attack on Iran as "excellent."

Asked about any American role in the attack on Iran, he said, "I don't want to answer that."

Trump announced that he had given Iran one chance after another to strike a deal, but Tehran had not responded, and he said that things were only going to get worse.

Trump wrote in a post on his platform, Truth Social: “I told them, in the strongest words, ‘Just do it.’ But no matter how hard they tried, and no matter how close they came, they could not get a deal done.”

"I told them (the Iranians) that if they didn't make a deal, it would be far worse than anything they knew, expected, or were told," he continued, referring to the possibility of a strike against them.

He added that he told them, “The United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world, by a wide margin, and that Israel has a lot of it, with more to come, and they know how to use it.”

He noted that "some Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was coming. They're all dead now, and it's only going to get worse!" adding, "There has already been massive death and destruction, but there is still time to end this carnage, with upcoming attacks already planned that will be even more brutal."

Israel launched an attack today (Friday) as part of Operation Rising Lion, aimed at striking the nuclear and military programs across Iran. The attack resulted in the deaths of senior commanders in the Iranian armed forces and the destruction of a major uranium enrichment facility in the center of the country. Tel Aviv described the operation as "precise and preemptive."

Israel declared a state of emergency due to expectations of an Iranian response "in the very near future," while the United States announced that it was not involved in these attacks. The strikes also targeted Iran's main uranium enrichment facilities. The commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, and the Chief of Staff, Mohammad Bagheri, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran early this morning. The death of Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, the commander of the Joint Operations Room of the General Staff, was also confirmed.