Iran-US war latest: Trump ‘not ready’ for ceasefire with Iran as Israel orders evacuations in Lebanon
President Donald Trump says he is not ready to make a deal with Iran because “the terms aren’t good enough yet”, according to a new interview with NBC.
The US leader said American forces had “totally demolished” military targets on Iran’s critical Kharg Island but suggested he might continue bombing it “just for fun”.
It comes as Israel launched “wide-scale” strikes on Iran overnight as the raging war between the countries entered its third week.
Residents of several neighbourhoods in southern Lebanon and Beirut were also ordered to evacuate by Israel on Sunday ahead of the latest wave.
An Israeli attack on a factory in Isfahan killed 15 workers, according to Iranian media.
On Saturday, the US-backed country targeted heavily armed checkpoints across Iran, according to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Writing on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump called for “many countries” to send warships to the area to help end the blockade and listed the UK, China, Japan, France and South Korea among them.
The route has been under siege after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to take “complete control” of the waterway through which one fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied gas passes.
