However, two former senior Israeli officials with close ties to the military told Politico that Tel Aviv believes a ceasefire is premature, and the war requires at least another month.
The additional time would allow Israel to advance its goal of destabilising the Iranian government in the hope that it would collapse.
“One or two more months” would help to achieve that goal, one official said.
“Nobody can say for sure, but what we see today is that they are already on the verge of collapse.”
Trump publicly and repeatedly claimed that regime change has already occurred, saying as recently as Monday that “we have regime change” in Iran.
“We got regime change. We do. We deal with a much different regime than before… They’re smarter, I think they’re sharper and far less radical,” he said.