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Saturday 21 June 2025 22:45, UK
Donald Trump is due back at the White House shortly for a meeting of the US National Security Council.
Before then, he's been posting on his Truth Social platform.
Sharing a Fox News report about whether he will authorise US military action against Iran or not, Trump said simply: "Only time will tell!"
Donald Trump is preparing to make the biggest call of his presidency to date, US correspondent David Blevins says.
The president is due to arrive back at the White House shortly, where he'll hold a National Security Council meeting to discuss the Israel-Iran conflict.
"It's very unusual for Donald Trump to spend Saturday and Sunday at the White House," says Blevins. "And equally unusual for him to be meeting with his national security team as often as he is."
The US currently has a group of B-2 bombers heading from America towards the Pacific region, which could then potentially head onwards to the Middle East if Trump approves it.
On Thursday, Trump said that he will decide whether the US gets directly involved in the conflict within a fortnight.
In a call on the same day, Israeli officials reportedly expressed their displeasure at such a timeframe (see 21.10pm post).
"All of this speaks to the challenge facing the president right now," adds Blevins.
"With his own base divided, his own administration arguably divided, it's going to be the biggest call of his presidency to date."
Attack drones have been moving towards Israel "for hours" as part of Iran's latest attack, local media says.
"This operation will be continuous and unsettling," a spokesperson for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is quoted by the Tasnim news agency as saying.
We'll bring you more on this as it develops.
The UN's nuclear watchdog has confirmed that several more buildings at the Isfahan nuclear site have been struck amid Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities.
The site in central Iran was first hit on 13 June when four buildings were damaged, with six other buildings attacked today, the International Atomic Energy Agency says.
These include a fuel rod production facility, nuclear material storage and laboratory, it added.
Iranian media says that Israel had launched strikes on the southern city of Shiraz, which hosts military bases.
The Mehr news agency says the city's air defences have been activated and have been "engaged in fighting hostile targets and Zionist aircraft".
Air defences are also reportedly being engaged in the southern city of Bandar Abbas. A little earlier, the Israeli military said it was attacking drone and weapons warehouses in the region.
Iran's internet connectivity has been partially restored after a widespread 62-hour blackout that began early Wednesday, according to internet monitoring group NetBlocks.
The outage was described by NetBlocks as the most severe and extensive internet shutdown in Iran since the November 2019 protests.
In the initial hours of the blackout, only 3% of Iranian users had access to the global internet, NetBlocks reported.
Israeli officials have reportedly told the Trump administration they don't want to wait two weeks to learn if the US will join the Israel-Iran conflict.
Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will decide whether the US gets directly involved in the conflict within a fortnight.
According to the Reuters news agency, citing two unnamed sources, Israel believes it has a limited window of opportunity to move against the deeply buried nuclear site at Fordow, the crown jewel of Iran's nuclear program.
The US is the only country with bombs powerful enough to reach the facility, which is dug into the side of a mountain.
Four sources said it is now increasingly likely that Israel will launch a solo military operation at Fordow. Israeli air superiority over much of Iran makes an operation more feasible, though still riAG百家乐在线官网, said two of the sources.
Benjamin Netanyahu, defence minister Israel Katz and military chief Eyal Zamir reportedly part in the "tense" phone call with Washington on the Israeli side.
JD Vance and defence secretary Pete Hegseth participated in the call on the US side, a security source said.
Last night, Donald Trump said US intelligence agencies were "wrong" after they said they had no evidence that Iran was building a nuclear weapon.
Tehran has repeatedly denied that it is seeking a nuclear weapon and the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said this month that it has no proof of a "systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon".
But Iran is the only non-nuclear-weapon state to enrich uranium up to 60% - a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
So, how close is it to producing a nuclear weapon? Our US correspondent Mark Stone takes a look...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has this evening shared a message in support of the Palestinian people.
Posting on X, he said the victory of Palestinians "is something that's definite".
Israel says its military campaign in Iran "is not over" as Tehran still possesses "capabilities and intentions".
In a daily update, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says it has continued to strike "every element" of Iran's missile production chain.
Spokesman Effie Defrin says the IDF is currently attacking drone and weapons warehouses in the Bandar Abbas region of southwestern Iran.
He claims that Tehran's missile launch capabilities are now "merely a fraction of what they were at the outset of the operation".
He adds that, by contrast, Iran has only managed to get a "small number" of its drones into Israeli airspace.
