Trump says Iranian negotiators working with US no longer alive after Israeli strikes

After speaking to Trump, Bash made an appearance on CNN over the phone with a colleague, where she stated, "He said the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners," Bash recounted.

"So what you're saying is Israel has now killed the people who you were dealing with. And he said, very sarcastically, they didn't die of the flu, they didn't die of COVID."

When speaking to Bash, the CNN reporter said that Trump did not say anything similar to that he "signed off" on the attack against Iran, but that the president recounted in the conversion, "Iran should have listened to me ... I gave them a 60 day warning, and today is Day 61."

Israel performed air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities as well as a number of military targets in the early hours of Friday, local time. Multiple top military leaders, as well as military weaponry, were also targeted.

In response to the strikes, Trump has signaled that he would like Iran to come to the table for a nuclear deal, something that he said that if it were not done, it would likely bring more attacks from Israel.

"I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to “just do it,” but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come - And they know how to use it. Certain Iranian hardliner’s [sic] spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen," he wrote on Truth Social.

"They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse! There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end. Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!"