The United States may launch military action against Iran under certain circumstances, said the US President's special envoy, Stephen Witkoff.
“We should not resolve everything militarily, but that does not mean that if we are pressed to a certain point, we will not resort to military action, we will do it under certain circumstances“, he said in an interview with Fox News.
Witkoff added that US President Donald Trump's position is that “Iran should not have a nuclear bomb”. “We cannot allow them to start creating a nuclear arsenal. This should not happen," the US leader's special envoy said.
On March 7, Trump wrote on his Truth Social page that he had sent a message to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, offering talks on Tehran's nuclear program. The Iranian leader responded that his country would not engage in dialogue with the United States because Washington "only cares about its own interests." On March 12, Khamenei called Trump's words about his readiness for negotiations “a deception of world public opinion”.
Meanwhile, Iran, the main supporter of the Lebanese group “Hezbollah“, condemned the Israeli strikes on Lebanon, carried out in response to a rocket attack from Lebanese territory, Agence France-Presse reported, quoted by BTA.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman condemned the “large-scale military aggression“, accusing Israel of being “a real threat to international peace and security“.