President Donald Trump said the United States was still “committed to a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Issue!” on Truth Social Thursday evening. Twelve hours later, early Friday morning, after Israeli strikes in Iran, he posted again.
“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 hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”
The United States’ role and future involvement in Israel’s conflict with Iran is now one of the biggest questions facing Trump’s administration. In the immediate aftermath of the strikes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also acting as the White House’s national security adviser, said in a statement the U.S. was “not involved in strikes against Iran,” and that the actions by Israel were “unilateral.”