Meanwhile, US President Trump stated that Iran badly wants to settle with the United States, adding that Washington would decide whether or not to take such a step.

Israel learned multiple security lessons from the October 7 massacre, including to act before threats metastasize and to never again let those who want to murder you encamp right on the border.

CENTCOM spokesman Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins told The Jerusalem Post that US forces remain ready to strike Iranian capabilities threatening commercial shipping.

“We cannot give up one of ICE’s most important and effective crime-fighting tools, the traffic stop,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. 

“I simply cannot ask you to vote for a party that I myself can no longer bring myself to vote for,” Illouz stated. “This is no longer the Likud. This is a party that has been hijacked.”

The US military has said its latest bombings have targeted Iranian air defense systems, coastal radar, missile and drone sites as well as small boats and other maritime assets.