Trump says 'one or two' Iran targets remain
President Donald Trump said the US still has one or two sites to deal with in Iran, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio said no decision on new strikes has been made.
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President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States still has to deal with one or two sites in Iran, but that it is in no hurry, as Tehran warned it would hit back hard at any new attack.
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump said US strikes had already badly damaged Iran's military and nuclear program. He pointed to Pickaxe Mountain, a suspected underground site, as one remaining target and said talks with Iran were going fine but that Tehran was not very reliable. Iran denies carrying out nuclear work there.
Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump had not decided whether to launch new strikes and would prefer a diplomatic solution. Trump has previously suggested an attack could come after Tuesday's midterm elections. Iranian negotiators held talks with Qatari mediators in Doha on Saturday, according to a source briefed on the talks.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, ordered the armed forces to be ready for an immediate response to any threat, with no geographic limits, according to a statement released by his office. The war, which the US and Israel began in February, has disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and pushed up global energy prices. This is a developing story.
This summary is original reporting by tehworldnews, written after checking the facts against several major international news outlets and official statements.