Trump, on attacking Iran: "Nobody knows what I'm going to do"

Washington.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, left open this Wednesday the possibility of a military attack against Iran and assured that "nobody knows" what his decision will finally be.

"I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do," the president replied to questions from the press at the White House about a possible intervention.

"I can say this: Iran has a lot of problems and wants to negotiate. Why didn't they negotiate with me two weeks ago? They could have done well. They would have had a country. It's very sad to see this," he added.

Without confirmation of an imminent attack

For his part, the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, refused to confirm the possibility of an imminent bombing of his country on Iran, during a hearing in the Senate in which he avoided answering directly whether Trump has requested plans for entry into the conflict between Israel and Tehran. "Whether or not I have requested (the plans), I would not reveal it in this forum," said the Pentagon leader before the Armed Forces Committee of the Upper House of Congress. «We know right now that Tehran understands exactly what the president is saying. He said that for 60 days they had the opportunity to reach an agreement. They should have done it. President Trump's word means something. The world understands it. And in the Department of Defense our job is to be prepared with options, and that's precisely what we're doing,» Hegseth said today. The secretary was pressed on the issue by several senators, including Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, who said she hoped Americans would be informed "as soon as the action is determined" by the Pentagon in Iran. The possible involvement of the Donald Trump administration in Israeli attacks against Iran has caused divisions within the Trumpist movement, where some of its most radical voices strongly oppose any military intervention.

Trump's Warning to Iran

Trump abruptly left the G7 summit in Canada on Monday to return to the White House and meet with his National Security Council to assess whether the United States will join the attacks that Israel has been carrying out since Friday against Iran.

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The president explained that he gave the Islamic Republic a period of 60 days to negotiate a nuclear agreement and that, on day 61, Israel began bombing uranium enrichment facilities on Iranian territory. Trump also referred to the message he posted on Tuesday on social media, addressed to Tehran, in which he wrote "unconditional surrender." According to him, with that phrase he meant that Iran would reach the point of saying: "I can't take it anymore, I surrender." "For 40 years they have said 'Death to the United States,' 'Death to Israel,' 'Death to anyone they didn't like.' They have been bullies, schoolyard bullies. Now they are not anymore, but we will see what happens," he expressed.