World leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada are trying to find a way to contain the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
President Donald Trump, who left the meeting a day early to focus on the situation, has warned that Tehran needs to curb its nuclear program before its "too late."
"Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's too late," Trump told reporters at the beginning of a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
When asked what it would take for the U.S. to get involved in the conflict militarily, Trump said, "I don't want to talk about that."
Thanks to the vaunted Mossad, the war is going the way of the Israelis.
For months, the elite spy agency watched the leaders of Iran's air force and learned their habits. They learned which buttons to push to get them to meet at a certain location and what actions to take so they would stay in the room until Israeli weapons could be brought to bear.
Leading up to last week's deadly onslaught, the Mossad covertly sent agents into Iran, brought drones, precision weapons, and explosives within miles of Iranian launch sites and started attacking before the mullahs – honored Muslim scholars or clerics – could get their missiles launched.
Jan Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, says Israel had to do something.
"People should keep in mind she's doing the world of favor, because clearly, the Iranian mullahs were gaining nuclear power," she tells AFN. "That's just about the most stunning thing people could wrap their heads around – an Islamic death cult would have access to nuclear explosions and would not think twice about using it on the entire world."
Gary Bauer of American Values says the Mossad is the envy of the free world.
"We would be blessed beyond imagination if we had intelligence agencies at the level of Mossad," he submits. "Mossad is constantly pulling off things that seem like they come out of a Marvel comics film. Having agents inside Iran that fired at targets in Iran, from inside of Iran – that makes it very hard to defend against."
As thousands of possible foreign terrorists crossed into U.S. territory during the Biden administration, using far less guile than the Mossad, Bauer thinks there is a lesson the U.S. may be slow to learn.
"We had people come in from over 100 different countries, and almost always, they were military aged men," he notes. "It seems to me obvious that enemies of the United States are already pre-positioned within our country."
Iran's retaliatory missile attack inflicted minor damage on the American Consulate in Tel Aviv Monday. No one was hurt, but the Consulate and U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem were closed throughout the day as a precaution.
