JAKARTA - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was "step-by-step" towards the removal of threats posed by Iran's nuclear site and ballistic missile arsenal.
"We attacked nuclear sites, missiles, headquarters, symbols of the regime," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu also thanked US President Donald Trump as "a good friend of the Israeli state," for standing by his side in the conflict.
Trump has turned from proposing a fast diplomatic end to war to suggest the United States may join.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Wednesday, June 18, Donald Trump refused to say whether he had made a decision on whether to join Israeli air operations.
"I might do it. I probably wouldn't do it. I mean, no one knows what I'm going to do," he said.
Trump said in a subsequent statement that Iranian officials wanted to come to Washington for a meeting.
"We might do it," Trump said.
But he said it was a bit 'delayed' for such talks.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to Israel's plan to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with US help.
"I don't even want to discuss this possibility. I don't want to," Putin said.
According to him, all parties must seek ways to end hostilities in a way that guarantees Iran's right to peaceful nuclear power and Israel's right to unconditional security for the Jewish state.
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