The war in the Middle East ramped up on Thursday as Israel launched a wave of strikes targeting Iranian infrastructure in the central city of Isfahan, and announced it had killed the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s navy.
Iran has hit back, firing two rounds of missiles at central Israel causing destruction and injuries. Israel was also under attack from a wave of rockets from Lebanon, and an Israeli soldier in Lebanon was killed.
President Trump again claimed Iran “so badly” wanted to make a deal with the U.S., despite Tehran’s rejection of a 15-point proposal to end the war.
Trump urged Iran’s negotiators to “get serious soon, before it is too late.” Iran has said it doesn’t plan on negotiating with the U.S. at all, and that it has its own conditions.
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