President Trump has reportedly ordered another round of strikes against Iran with coordination from Israel.
CBS reported that, according to multiple sources, the strikes could continue through the weekend and are expected to target Iranian energy infrastructure in the largest bombing campaign to date in the war.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to target Iranian power plants and bridges.
The President has also said that he is weighing a “massive” attack on Iran, which would be “bigger than ever before.”
“They haven’t received enough pain yet,” Trump said last week as US forces continued hitting Iran nightly for nearly two weeks.
“The Israelis have been notified and are coordinating with the United States, according to multiple U.S. sources,” per CBS. Trump had not given the final orders at the time of CBS’s reporting, but the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump ordered the strikes, which could begin as soon as this weekend.
Trump told reporters during his cabinet meeting at Camp David earlier, “We just want to win. We’re doing very well. We’re trying to be nice, as nice as you can be in a situation like that.”
“We’ll be hitting them very hard, and at some point they are going to say we just can’t take it anymore,” he added.
The US resumed strikes on Iran this week after nearly two weeks of nightly attacks earlier this month. Trump had called off the attacks to continue negotiations last Friday.
However, Iran launched what the US military called a “surprise attack” on US forces in the Middle East on Tuesday.
Trump said on Wednesday, “We’re going to beat the f*cking sh*t out of them,” following the attempted missile strikes on a US base. US forces launched attacks in Iran on Tuesday and Wednesday, but there were no reported strikes on Thursday.
US Central Command released footage of Wednesday night’s strikes after the roughly two-hour-long mission concluded.
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Trump discussed Iran during a cabinet meeting earlier, where he suggested that the back and forth with Iran will likely continue.
“They’ll get weaker. They’ll get a little stronger maybe now, but they’ll get weaker, and then they peter out. Yeah, sure. I think so. I mean, it’d be foolish to say no. You always have to keep your guard up,” Trump said when asked if Americans should expect continued “back-and-forth attacks.”
“They always want to talk, but they break their word so often,” Trump added, noting that envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, as well as Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are currently involved in negotiations.
“I’ll say they discussed nuclear, and they’ll go out, and they’ll say we never discussed nuclear, and I say, ‘Why do they say that?’ All they do is make me angry, you know. They just make me angry,” Trump also noted.
When asked if he still thinks a deal can be reached, Trump said, “I’m losing faith in them because they do lie, and they do misrepresent.”
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This is a developing story.
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