U.S. prepares for new military strikes against Iran

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Washington — The Trump medication was preparing Friday for a caller circular of subject strikes against Iran, according to sources with nonstop cognition of the planning, adjacent arsenic diplomacy continued.

No last determination connected strikes had been reached arsenic of Friday afternoon.

"Circumstances pertaining to Government" are keeping President Trump from attending his lad Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding this weekend, helium said successful a societal media post. The president had planned to walk Memorial Day play astatine his play spot successful New Jersey but volition present instrumentality to the White House.

Some members of the U.S. subject and quality assemblage canceled their plans for the Memorial Day play successful anticipation of possible strikes, respective sources said.

Defense and quality officials began updating callback rosters for U.S. installations overseas arsenic tranches of troops stationed successful the Middle East rotate retired of theater, portion of an effort to trim the American subject footprint successful the portion amid interest astir imaginable Iranian retaliation.

The U.S. and Iran person mostly refrained from striking each different since a impermanent ceasefire began successful aboriginal April, buying clip for indirect talks connected a longer-term deal.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told CBS News that Mr. Trump has "made his redlines abundantly clear: Iran tin ne'er person a atomic weapon, and they cannot support their enriched uranium."

"The President ever maintains each options astatine each times, and it is the occupation of the Pentagon to beryllium acceptable to execute immoderate determination the Commander-in-Chief could make," Kelly said. "The President has been wide astir the consequences if Iran fails to marque a deal."

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Wednesday that immoderate further strikes against the state from the United States oregon Israel could widen the struggle beyond the Middle East, promising "crushing blows … successful places you cannot adjacent imagine."

Tehran is reviewing the latest U.S. connection for a imaginable statement to extremity the astir three-month warfare that has rattled vigor markets and resulted successful soaring substance prices. The connection was transmitted to Iran connected Wednesday, according to a root who told CBS News that it was besides accompanied by a informing that rejecting this alleged last connection would mean subject strikes would resume.

"Iran is dying to marque a deal," Mr. Trump said Friday. "We'll spot what happens."

The president said Wednesday helium was prepared to springiness Tehran "a mates of days" to respond to the latest U.S. offer. He added that his squad was "pretty impressed" by Iran's negotiators, but cautioned that the medication would request assurances important capable to forestall the struggle from reigniting.

A effect is imminently expected to beryllium transmitted via Pakistan, which has been acting arsenic an intermediary.

Before boarding a formation to India, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that the U.S. expected to person a effect via the Pakistani tract marshal, who has acted arsenic the superior conduit of connection with Iran connected behalf of the Trump administration. Rubio claimed that Trump preferred diplomacy to strikes and said advancement had been made, though helium indicated determination was much enactment to beryllium done.

Rubio besides referenced conversations from meetings successful Sweden with NATO members astir however to reopen the Strait of Hormuz done subject force, an effort helium referred to arsenic "Plan B" if Iran did not hold to bash truthful itself.

In Washington, House Republicans connected Thursday abandoned an effort to clasp a ballot limiting President Trump's authorization to behaviour subject operations against Iran aft concluding they lacked the votes needed to halt the solution from advancing.

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