US President Donald Trump says he believes the recent conflict between Iran and Israel is over."It was a 12-day war, and we believe it's over," Trump said Wednesday at the NATO summit in The Hague."I don't think they'll go at each other again." He compared the attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities to the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
Both deployments of American forces ended a war, the US President declared. Trump also announced new negotiations with Iran for next week. He reiterated to journalists at the end of the two-day summit that Iran no longer had any nuclear capabilities."They blew up." Trump was once again responding to reports by CNN and the New York Times, which cited a confidential report that Tehran's nuclear program had been set back only by a few months.
Shortly before, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, when asked at the same press conference whether the US would be interested in renewed negotiations with Iran, said that the US wanted peaceful relations with every country in the world."That, of course, depends on Iran's willingness not only to work for peace, but also to negotiate directly with the United States, not through a process with third or fourth countries."
Death of key Revolutionary Guard commander confirmed
Meanwhile, the death of a key commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was confirmed in Iran. Major General Ali Shadmani, who was seriously injured in an Israeli attack last week, has died, the FARS news agency reported. The Israeli military had already announced Shadmani's death last week. There had been no initial confirmation from Iran. The Israeli army described him as the"highest-ranking military commander."
Shadmani succeeded Gholam-Ali Rashid, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on June 13, at the beginning of the war. Both were commanders of the Khatam-al Anbiya headquarters, part of the powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps and a subdivision of the General Staff, responsible for planning and coordinating operations of various military units. More than 20 high-ranking military officers were killed in Israeli airstrikes during the Israel-Iran war.
627 dead in Iran
According to Iranian figures released Wednesday evening, the war against Israel claimed 627 lives. 4,870 people were injured, a health ministry official reported on X. Most of the deaths occurred in Tehran.
