‘Gave Iran 60 days, Today Is 61’: Trump Urges Iran To Make Deal 'Before It's Too Late'

Amid heightened tensions between Israel and Iran, US President Donald Trump has said that he had given 60-day time to make a nuclear deal, CNN reported.

Trump Warning

"Iran should have listened to me when I said - you know, I gave them, I don't know if you know but I gave them a 60-day warning and today is day 61," Trump told CNN over the phone call as he said that Israel's strike on Iran was "a very successful attack".

Trump said that the US continues to support Israel "like nobody has ever supported it" and urged Tehran to strike a deal. "They should now come to the table to make a deal before it's too late. It will be too late for them. You know, the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners," Trump said

However, the US President did not reveal the details of the people with whom they were dealing.

Israel launched a military operation against Iran late on Thursday night and hit Iran's nuclear and military structure on Friday.

Top Iran Leaders Dead

Israel's strikes have killed prominent leaders such as Mohammad Bagheri, the commander in chief of Iran's military. Second highest commander after Supreme Leader, Hossein Salami, Commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iran's primary military force, Gholamali Rashid, Deputy commander in chief of the armed forces, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Leader of the airspace unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Ali Shamkhani, senior former navy commander, was overseeing the nuclear talks with the United States, Fereydoun Abbasi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranji, physicist and president of the Islamic Azad, University in Tehran.

Iran retaliated late on Friday by unleashing scores of ballistic missiles on Israel, where explosions flared in the skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

However, the US has denied any involvement in the strikes carried out against Israel. Marco Rubio, United States Secretary of State, "Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region," Rubio said.

In his earlier post, US President warned Iran to strike a deal "before there is nothing left," indicating that follow-up attacks on the country will be "even more brutal."

In his first public response since Israel attacked Iran, the US President said, "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," Trump wrote.

Trump stated that Iranian leaders "didn't know what was about to happen. 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," Trump stated.