Trump urges Iran to continue negotiations, warns there's more Israeli strikes to come

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had given Iran a 60-day ultimatum on a nuclear deal before Israel's strikes, but added Tehran now has a second chance.

"Two months ago, I gave Iran a 60-day ultimatum to 'make a deal,'" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!"

Speaking with ABC News' chief Washington correspondent on the phone Friday morning, Trump said he thought the Israeli attack against Iran has been "excellent."

"We gave them a chance and they didn't take it," Trump told ABC. "They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you're going to get hit. And there's more to come. A lot more."

When asked if the United States participated in the attack in any way, Trump responded by saying, "I don't want to comment on that."

On Thursday, Trump told reporters that he was hoping Israel wouldn't attack Iran and there were numerous reports from U.S. media that Trump had urged Netanyahu not to launch the attack, seeing as he still hoped diplomacy would be successful in bringing out a deal. 

“I don’t want them going in because, I mean, that would blow it,” Trump said on Thursday. Iran and the U.S. had plans to hold a sixth round of nuclear talks on Sunday.

While Iranian officials have told state media that the country's delegation will no longer be attending the Sunday talks, Trump is still pushing for Iranian negotiators to return to the table.

In an earlier Truth Social post, Trump called Israeli strikes "slaughter" and urged Iran to make a deal. Trump said he had warned Iran that failing to agree to American terms "would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come."

"Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely," Trump said of Iran's top brass, "but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!"

"There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end," the Truth Social post continues. "Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!"