In a phone interview with CBS News, President Trump dismissed threats from Iran's top national-security official, who posted on social media that Mr. Trump must "pay the price" for the strikes on Iran.

Trump has said the U.S. will hit Iran "twenty times harder" than it already has if continues to stop the flow of oil.

President Trump said the war with Iran will end soon because there’s "practically nothing left to target." “Any time I want it to end, it will end," Trump told Axios in an interview Wednesday. “We are way ahead of the timetable.

The president said the strikes have put immense pressure on Iran, and he believes the U.S.-Israeli military action can lead to an eventual diplomatic solution.

Herzog ⁠said the ⁠U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran were changing the ​whole configuration of the Middle East. He defended strikes on Iranian oil sites as a way of taking ​away money from Tehran's "war machine".