Trump Reportedly Vetoes Israeli Plan To Kill Iranian Supreme Leader

(MENAFN- Nam News Network) WASHINGTON, Jun 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – U.S. President, Donald Trump, vetoed a recent Israeli plan to kill Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, according to multiple media reports on Sunday.

CBS News, citing a U.S. official, reported that, Israel had the opportunity to kill Khamenei, and Trump told Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that it wasn't a good idea.

But when asked about the killing plot in an interview on Sunday with Fox News, Netanyahu said,“There are so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I'm not going to get into that.”

According to Reuters, top U.S. officials have been in constant communication with Israeli officials in the days since Israel launched a massive attack on Iran on Friday.

Trump said on Sunday that, while the United States is not currently involved in Israel's military strikes against Iran, future involvement remains a possibility.

“We're not involved in it. It's possible we could get involved. But we are not at this moment involved,” the president told ABC News in an interview.

In the wake of the Israeli strikes against Iran, Trump repeatedly urged Iran to make a deal. In an interview with ABC News, the president said, he gave Iran a“60-day ultimatum” to“make a deal,” but he is not setting a new deadline.

Later on Sunday, before departing the White House for the G7 summit in Canada, Trump again said that, he sees a“good chance” for a deal on the nuclear issue amid continued Israel-Iran conflict.

The sixth round of the U.S.-Iran indirect talks, over Iran's nuclear programme, set for last Sunday, in the Omani capital, Muscat, was called off, after Israel launched strikes against Iran.– NNN-XINHUA

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