Donald Trump ‘approves plan’ for attack on Iran and could launch strike in ‘coming days’

Reports claim Trump has approved a plan of attack on Iran

Israel and Iran have been in conflict for almost a week now with daily exchanges of missiles leading to hundreds of casualties in the Middle East.

Israel attacked Iran last Friday (13 June) in what they called a pre-emptive attack aimed at nuclear facilities after claiming Iran were manufacturing a nuclear bomb.

Iran denies this claim and upon being attacked launched missiles, including ballistic missiles, back at Israel, notably hitting population centres such as Tel Aviv.

With all this unrest, as well as the US's involvement in a nuclear energy agreement with Iran, Donald Trump has been vocal on the matter.

Now according to latest news, Donald Trump has agreed to a plan of an attack on Iran, as reported by the BBC.

For the time being Trump is holding off an attack in the case Iran agree to abandon its nuclear programme, a senior intelligence source told CBS.

However, Trump is also reportedly considering a US strike on Fordo, an underground uranium enrichment facility in Iran that only a US bunker buster bomb could destroy.

Currently, the latter seems more likely with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejecting Trump's demand for unconditional surrender yesterday.

Senior White House officials have begun preparing for the US to strike Iran 'in the coming days,' Bloomberg reported.

Trump has claimed his patience has "run out" and yesterday (18 June) he said, "I may do it, I may not do it", when asked about the US getting involved in Iran.

The news of Trump backing strike plans was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The paper claim that Trump has approved an attack, but has "withheld final order".

This morning saw more attacks exchanged between Israel and Iran as the former hit missile sites and nuclear facilities in Iran.

Meanwhile, hypersonic missiles were launched back at Israel by Iran in response with most recently Soroka Hospital in Tel Aviv.

Iran's mission to the United Nations mocked Trump in posts on X: "Iran does NOT negotiate under duress, shall NOT accept peace under duress, and certainly NOT with a has-been warmonger clinging to relevance.

"No Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House," it added.

"The only thing more despicable than his lies is his cowardly threat to 'take out' Iran's supreme leader."