Briefing|Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Indecision on Iran

Trump said ‘nobody knows’ his plans for Iran

As Israel bombed targets in Iran for the sixth straight day, President Trump refused to say whether he planned to order U.S. forces to attack Iran’s nuclear sites.

“I may do it,” he told reporters on the White House lawn. “I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”

Later, in the Oval Office, Trump said he wasn’t looking for a war. “But if it’s a choice between them fighting or having a nuclear weapon, you have to do what you have to do,” he said. “And maybe we don’t have to fight.”

Earlier in the day, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dismissed Trump’s threats and calls on Tuesday for “unconditional surrender.” Khamenei added that U.S. military intervention would be “accompanied by irreparable damage.”