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U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that an additional "armada" of U.S. military vessels is sailing towards Iran, expressing hope that Iran will agree to a deal.

"I hope they make a deal," Trump added, "They should have made a deal the first time they'd have a country."

Trump also emphasized that U.S. operations in the Twelve-Day War were critical. “In June, we obliterated Iran’s nuclear capacity in Operation Midnight Hammer,” Trump stated. "People had been waiting for 22 years to do that... They were about a month away from having a nuclear weapon. We had to do it."

In his presser Tuesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a separate warning to Tehran, saying that any attack on Israel would provoke “a response that you can’t even imagine.” He added, “President Trump will decide what he decides; the State of Israel will decide what it decides. We are prepared for any scenario.”

Military Escalation 

A strike group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln has now arrived in Middle Eastern waters, U.S. Central Command said earlier this week, without revealing its precise location.

The U.S. also announced on Tuesday that it was conducting an aerial military exercise in the Middle East amid ongoing tensions with Iran. The U.S. Ninth Air Force — also known as Air Forces Central (AFCENT) — the air component in United States Central Command (CENTCOM) — will be conducting a “multi-day readiness exercise to demonstrate the ability to deploy, disperse, and sustain combat airpower across the US Central Command area of responsibility,” AFCENT said.

A senior U.S. official said on Tuesday that the White House "is open for business" when it comes to negotiations with Iran. "If they want to contact us and they know what the terms are, then we're going to have the conversation", the U.S. official told Axios.

The official added that the U.S. conditions for a deal have been transmitted to Iran many times in the last year.