Updates: Trump to decide whether US to attack Iran ‘within two weeks’

You can keep following Al Jazeera’s live coverage of the Israel-Iran conflict here.

Also, check out this analysis piece on what US President Trump’s “endgame” is amid conflicting statements this week.

Or, if you’re interested in Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, see our explainer on its significance here.

We will soon be closing this live page. Here’s a look at the day’s major events:

• Israel has continued its attacks across Iran, with the military warning residents of a small village in the country’s northwest to evacuate ahead of expected bombings.
• Iran has fired dozens of missiles at sites across Israel, including in the Tel Aviv area and in Beersheba in the south.
• The White House has said President Trump will decide within the next two weeks whether Washington will get involved in Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran.
• Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah – an Iran-aligned group – says if the US joins Israel in its assault, it will suffer severe consequences.
• In Gaza, at least 92 Palestinians – including dozens of aid-seekers – have been killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave, the Health Ministry said.

Australia has suspended operations at its embassy in Tehran due to the deteriorating security environment in Iran and has directed the departure of all Australian officials, Foreign Minister Penny Wong says.

In a statement, she said Australia’s ambassador to Iran will remain in the region to support the government’s response to the crisis.

“We are continuing planning to support Australians seeking to depart Iran, and we remain in close contact with other partner countries,” Wong said in a statement.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will deploy consular staff to Azerbaijan, including its border crossings, to support Australians departing Iran.

Isaac Herzog says diplomacy “can always be part of the solution” to the crisis with Iran.

Asked what would happen if the US decides against joining the war, Herzog told Politico, “We know what to do. We’ve shown that we know what to do.”

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said that about 50 percent of the Palestinian citizens of Israel do not have access to public shelters to seek safety amid Iranian missile attacks.

Palestinians make up about 20 percent of the Israeli population, numbering about two million people.

B’Tselem noted that in Tamra, a city in northern Israel where four members of a Palestinian family were killed by a missile fired from Iran this week, about 37,000 residents do not have access to a single public shelter.

“In southern Israel, around 85,000 Bedouin citizens live in villages unrecognised by the state. Some of these areas are designated by the Israeli military as ‘open terrain’ – and receive no protection from missile interception systems or even siren alerts. Most of the villages lack any safe rooms, and authorities have even opposed placing portable shelters,” the group said on X.

“In the occupied territories: in the West Bank and certainly in Gaza, the situation is far worse – residents are not only left unprotected against foreign missile attacks but are also defenceless in the face of … Israeli daily attacks.”

Israel is bombing in the Gaza Strip, attacking in the West Bank — and abandoning its Palestinian citizens to incoming missiles

The city of Tamra, where four members of the Khatib family were killed by a missile fired from Iran (pictured), is home to about 37,000 people without a… pic.twitter.com/Gkixr6JBLu

— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) June 19, 2025

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stressed the need to de-escalate the crisis in the Middle East during talks with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in London.

“The leaders called for de-escalation and both agreed on the need for enduring and closer relationships across the region to support stability,” a spokesperson for Starmer’s office said.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, #Salman_bin_Hamad Al Khalifa, meets with the Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer MP @Keir_Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and witnesses the signing of key agreements during his… pic.twitter.com/skCTFRuYIs

— أخبار سمو ولي العهد (@BahrainCPnews) June 19, 2025

Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee says Israel aimed to create chaos in the country by killing top military leaders, but the plan was repelled.

“In the next stage, it intended to turn Iran into Syria and plunge it into a 10-year insecurity,” Rezaee said.

Analysts say Trump may not have a clear strategy or endgame for his Iran policy; rather he is being dragged to war by Netanyahu, who has been seeking US attacks on Iran for decades.

Alternatively, could Trump be using his increasingly bellicose rhetoric against Iran to compel Tehran to agree to entirely give up its nuclear programme?

If so, experts warn that brinkmanship could turn into an all-out war between the US and Iran.

Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, said Trump could be attempting to build leverage with threats to strongarm Iran into accepting his demands of “total surrender”.

“I think he’s trying to present himself as this madman who is unpredictable, and in so doing, he can then insist on this very hard line that Iran has refused to accept for decades of full dismantlement of its enrichment programme,” Abdi told Al Jazeera.

Read the rest of the story here.

The Iranian supreme leader’s account on X shares a video opening with scenes of Israeli air strikes and atrocities in Gaza, followed by footage of people celebrating the falling of Iran’s missiles on Israel and the damage they caused.

“Missiles that delighted the noble of the world,” it said.

Missiles that delighted the noble of the world pic.twitter.com/vz7VrD5uDd

— Khamenei Media (@Khamenei_m) June 19, 2025

An explosion has occurred at the residence of the Norwegian ambassador to Israel in Tel Aviv, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry says.

“We have been in contact with the embassy tonight. No staff with the embassy was injured during the incident,” the foreign ministry said in an emailed statement. It did not say what caused the explosion.

In a post on X, Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said he spoke a short time ago with ambassador Per Egil Selvaag.

Saar said a grenade had been thrown in Selvaag’s yard and that it was a “dangerous crime” that he condemned.

Norwegian newspaper VG reported that the Norwegian embassy in Tel Aviv was closed on Monday due to the security situation.

Let’s bring you up to speed on the latest developments:

• The White House says President Trump will decide whether to launch an attack on Iran within the next two weeks.
• More than 200 Israelis have been reported injured in a volley of dozens of Iranian missiles today, including four in critical condition.
• Large crowds have gathered in the Iranian city of Ahvaz for the funerals of people killed in Israel’s attacks on Iran.
• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he would not exclude the possibility of targeting Iran’s supreme leader, after Israel’s defence minister said “eliminating” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is one of the country’s war goals.
• In Gaza, at least 84 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the enclave today, according to Palestinian health officials.

US President Donald Trump will be briefed by the National Security Council on developments between Israel and Iran, the White House says.

Earlier, we reported that Trump has stated he will decide on whether the US will get involved in the Israel-Iran conflict in the next two weeks.

The UN’s child rights agency has warned that childhood malnutrition is rising at at “alarming rate” in the bombarded Palestinian territory, as Israel continues to block most aid from entering Gaza.

UNICEF said that 5,119 children aged between six months and five years old were admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition last month alone. That’s a nearly 50 percent increase from the number of child admissions in April.

“In just 150 days, from the start of the year until the end of May, 16,736 children – an average of 112 children a day – have been admitted for treatment for malnutrition in the Gaza Strip,” Edouard Beigbeder, the agency’s Middle East and North Africa director, said in a statement.

“Every one of these cases is preventable. The food, water, and nutrition treatments they desperately need are being blocked from reaching them. Man-made decisions that are costing lives,” he said.

“Israel must urgently allow the large-scale delivery of life-saving aid through all border crossings.”