Trump says damage to Iran's nuclear sites is 'far below ground level'

While there are no concrete signs that the Iranian regime is any more likely to cut a deal now than they were at the beginning of the week, administration officials are pitching the president’s two-week timeline as a chance to let diplomacy play out.

"Trump is not a warmonger," one senior official told ABC News. "He wants to give the Iranians some room to come to their senses."

Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have been in communication during recent days, but as of now, there are no plans for the two to meet, another official said.

Officials have also pitched Trump’s move to give the Iranians breathing room as necessary because of the heavy losses sustained among its senior leadership and nuclear policy experts who would be involved in the making and implementing of any deal.

European diplomats are set to hold talks with Araghchi in Geneva over the weekend. But some administration officials say they don’t see a whole lot of promise in the talks, seeing the Europeans as having a weak track record when it comes to handling Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hawkish compatriots have long seen negotiating with the Iranian regime as a fool’s errand. And while Netanyahu may say the Israelis don’t need any help to accomplish their operational goals in Iran, at the very least, it would make it much easier.

However, even though Israeli officials have been pushing their case plenty, the "special relationship" between the country and the U.S. doesn’t translate to leverage over the Trump administration.

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

Iran used a missile with multiple warheads in one of their strikes against Israel Thursday, an Israeli military official confirmed to ABC News.

This missile was not used on the strike on the hospital in Israel, the official said. It is not clear exactly which attack the missile was used on.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller

The White House on Thursday stated definitively that Iran has all it needs to produce a nuclear weapon in "a couple of weeks" once given the go-ahead from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"Let's be very clear, Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at her briefing. "All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that."

"And it would take a couple of weeks to complete the production of that weapon, which would, of course, pose an existential threat not just to Israel but to the United States and to the entire world," she continued.

How close Iran is to developing a usable nuclear weapon has been at the center of the Israel-Iran conflict, with continuing debate over potential "breakout time" once the nation has stockpiled enough weapons-grade enriched uranium.

The last time the U.S. officially publicly gave a breakout timeline was in July 2024 when then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it would take Iran one to two weeks to enrich enough uranium of 90% purity to get the fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon.

Satellite images show more than two dozen U.S. military aircraft have left Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, the largest U.S. airbase in the region, in recent days.

A satellite photo taken on June 10 shows more than 30 military planes at the base. A satellite photo taken on June 8 shows a nearly empty base with only three planes still visible on the tarmac.

Earlier this week, more than a dozen small U.S. Navy vessels left the U.S. Navy base in Bahrain. They were not given a tasking, but have remained in Bahrain’s territorial waters, according to a U.S. official.

The U.S. military in the Middle East has made adjustments to ensure the force protection of U.S. personnel, a U.S. official told ABC News. This is in line with public comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about how the U.S. is in a defensive posture in the region to protect U.S. personnel and interests in the wake of the Israel-Iran conflict.