The U.S. president will convene a National Security Council in the Situation Room Tuesday, after abruptly leaving the G7 summit early on Monday night.
The New York Times reported that Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu is urging Trump to bomb the Fordow facility — one of the key pillars of Iran’s nuclear program — after days of Israeli strikes on key targets across the country.
A direct U.S. intervention in Iran would be a moment of major historical significance and would stoke grave concerns of the two countries sliding into war.
Starmer reiterated calls to de-escalate the situation, while saying that Iran must never be allowed to finish building a nuclear weapon.
“We are deeply concerned about the program, I certainly do not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” the British leader said.
Just before exiting the summit, Trump signed a joint G7 agreement that called for a “resolution of the Iranian crisis leads to a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza” and maintained that Tehran should never have a nuclear weapon.
