Iran-Israel conflict: Donald Trump warns Iran 'two weeks' to avoid US strikes | Today news

US President Donald Trump warned increasing tensions on Friday and gave Iran a ‘maximum’ of two weeks to avoid potential US air strikes. His remarks come as Israel claims that it has delayed the alleged core ambitions of Iran by at least two years. Trump also rejected European diplomatic efforts and said it would be “very difficult” to ask Israel to stop its continued military action, according to a report from AFP. A series of explosions were heard in Tehran on Friday, while Israel retained the massive flurry of strikes, aims to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons – an ambition that Tehran denied. “According to the assessment we hear, we have already postponed the possibility for them to have a nuclear bomb at least two or three years,” Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said in an interview published on Saturday. Saar said Israel’s week -long attack will continue. “We will do everything we can do there to remove this threat,” he told the German newspaper Bild. While Trump, the prospect of joining the war on Israel’s side, top diplomats from Britain, France and Germany met their Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in Geneva and urged him to resume the talks with the United States resumed by Israel’s attacks. French Foreign Minister Jean-Mul Barrot said: “We invited the Iranian minister to consider negotiations with all parties, including the United States, without waiting for strikes, which we also hope for.” But after the meeting, Araghchi told NBC News: “We are not prepared to negotiate with them (the United States) more, as long as the aggression continues.” Trump was dismissive of European efforts and told reporters: “Iran doesn’t want to talk to Europe. They want to talk to us. Europe won’t be able to help in this.” Trump also said he is unlikely to ask Israel to stop his attacks to get Iran back to the table. “If someone wins, it’s a little harder to do,” he said. Any US involvement is likely to contain powerful bunker bush bombs that have no other country to destroy an underground uranium enrichment facility in Fordo. Many stores were closed on the streets of Tehran and the markets normally dropped greatly on Friday. Since Israel launched its offensive on June 13, which was aimed at core and military sites, but also striked residential areas, Iran responded with pigs who, according to Israeli authorities, killed at least 25 people. A hospital in the Israeli harbor of Haifa has 19 injured, including one person in serious condition, reports after the latest Iranian salvo. More than 450 missiles have so far been fired at the country, along with about 400 drones, according to Israel’s National Directorate for Public Diplomacy. Iran said on Sunday that Israeli strikes had killed at least 224 people, including military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians. It has not updated the toll since then. (With input of AFP)