The United States could strike Iran as soon as this weekend, a U.S. envoy said Friday (October 24, 2026), after mounting threats by both Washington and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces elections Tuesday (October 27), has in recent days repeatedly vowed to topple the clerical state in Iran, following two major bombing campaigns against it since last year. Trump has also signalled an openness to resuming strikes after a long deadlock in diplomacy, although he earlier said it would not happen before U.S. congressional elections on November 3. Netanyahu, said the U.S. was not looking to topple the Islamic Republic, a sworn enemy of the United States and Israel since a 1979 revolution toppled the pro-Western shah.
“Could there be a strike this weekend? President Donald Trump “is very clear. He’s open and available and accessible to a deal and we’ve been at the table for months and months and months,” Mr. “That was my ambassador? He’s a pretty powerful man, I guess. If that’s the case, I don’t know anything about it,” Mr. Mr. Barrack, in remarks that contradict Mr.
Absolutely,” Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and point man on Syria who does not have a direct role on Iran, told podcast host Mario Nawfal. Barrack said in an interview as he visited the Gulf. Trump told reporters in Florida. “The United States — the President of the United States — has said he’s not interested in regime change,” he added.
