Speaking in Iowa on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that the military flight team that launched the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities will be honored at the White House on July 4th.

President Trump met with the Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman at the White House on Thursday and discussed the situation with Iran and other regional issues, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman reportedly held a secret meeting with US President Donald Trump about de-escalating tensions with Iran.

Iran says its nuclear program is for civilian energy purposes, and so peaceful. But it had enriched uranium to a near weapons-grade level, and well beyond what is needed for energy, putting it close to developing a bomb if it opted to do so.

Iran will not retaliate further against the United States’s strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program or pursue nuclear “militarization,” according to one of the country’s top diplomats. “As long as there is no act of aggression being perpetrated by the United States against us,

Following recent US and Israeli strikes, Iran has signaled its defiance by vowing to rebuild its “seriously damaged” nuclear program and ceasing cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).