U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran had not agreed to inspections of its nuclear program or to give up enriching uranium.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he dared Iran to “go ahead” with a counterattack in response to last month’s United States airstrikes that destroyed three Iranian nuclear sites. “They called me to tell me they have to take a shot at us.

Iran could start enriching uranium again within "a few months", says the IAEA.

The withdrawal of international inspectors comes amid heightened concerns that Iran, battered by Israeli and U.S. strikes, may be driven to try to build a nuclear bomb.

U.N. nuclear inspectors on Friday departed from Iran two days after the Middle Eastern nation suspended cooperation with the program and weeks after the United States and Israel bombed nuclear sites.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has approved a law to halt cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a move which will likely obscure any attempt by Tehran to restart its damaged nuclear program.

Critics feared it would plunge the Middle East into a wider war. That doomsday scenario has not come to pass, at least for now: Iran made only symbolic retaliation against America; soon after, a ceasefire ended the fighting between Iran and Israel.

Netanyahu floats reviving normalisation with the kingdom but Riyadh views state as an increasingly destabilising force

Even the prospect of civil war cannot be ruled out,' an expert tracking growing violence in the West Bank told Newsweek.