President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to Iran, urging the country to accept a nuclear deal to avoid further “ planned attacks ,” citing that “there has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter… come to an end.”

Iran's strikes on Israel are self-defense and are "proportionate defensive operations directed exclusively at military objectives and associated infrastructure," Iran's U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told the U.