Israel’s attack on Iran was long in the making – the result of years of meticulous planning by Israel and days of high-stakes talks between Tel Aviv and Washington, officials told CNN.

President Donald Trump again urged Iran to reach a nuclear deal with US, warning attacks 'will only get worse!'.

After months of urging Israel not to strike Iran while he worked toward a nuclear deal, President Donald Trump told Reuters in a phone interview on Friday that he and his team had known the attacks were coming - and still saw room for an accord.

The attack gives Iranians a common cause, despite their feelings about their government . As the Stimson Center’s longtime Iran analyst Barbara Slavin notes: Iran can and like

Explosions could be heard in Tel Aviv Friday night local time, as sirens rang out across Israel amid what the Israeli military said was an Iranian missile attack.