President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States is not involved in Israel's military strikes against Iran at this moment, but "it's possible we could be involved". In an interview with ABC News,

President Donald Trump said the United will come down on Iran “at levels never seen before” if the Middle Eastern country attacks.

Amid ongoing strikes between Israel and Iran, Trump is publicly and privately making clear his desire to keep the United States out of the fray for now.

Trump said during an interview Sunday morning that he was open to Russian President Vladimir Putin mediating a peace deal with Iran and Israel.

Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

The push to do a deal on the country’s nuclear program could be revived, even after the Israeli strikes scuppered the latest round of talks.

Countries trade strikes as tensions grow over larger Middle East conflict - Iranian missiles struck an apartment building in the Galilee region, killing four people, as the countries exchanged fire

The United States is the main international backer of Israel, Iran's biggest regional foe. It is also a close ally of Sunni Gulf monarchies which for years pursued their own rivalry with the Islamic Republic, seeing it as their main regional threat.