According to the channel's interlocutor, Israel is ready to attack Iranian energy facilities, but is waiting for the green light from America.
He added that any such attacks would likely occur within the next week.
Sky News noted that these comments came after an ultimatum from US President Donald Trump that Iran has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or conclude an agreement with the White House, otherwise “all hell will fall upon it.”
Context
On the morning of February 28 Israel and the US began to launch strikes on Iran. Trump announced his intention protect the American peopleeliminating immediate threats from the Iranian regime. Same day liquidated Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and more than 40 other country officials.
On March 22, the US President threatened to strike Iranian energy infrastructure due to the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded that in the event of a US attack, it would attack US energy, IT and desalination infrastructure in the region.
On March 23, the head of the White House announced that he had instructed the Pentagon to postpone strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days. He said that over the past two days the United States and Iran have held “very successful and productive” negotiations to resolve the situation in the Middle East. They were denied in Tehran. The next day, the Israeli publication Ynet wrote that allegedly the Supreme Leader of Iran. Mojtaba Khamenei agreed to negotiate with the United States.
On March 24, The New York Times wrote that the United States handed Iran a 15-point plan that spelled out the conditions that Tehran must agree to to end the war. In Iran, in a media commentary, they called them “quite high” and stated their own conditions – more stringent than before the shelling began.
On March 30, Trump said Iran agreed with most of his peace plan. On the same day in On the Truth Social social network, he warned that if an agreement cannot be reached to end the war in the Middle East, the US military will destroy all Iranian power plants, oil wells, and Kharg Island.
