Trump says no decision yet on major Iran strikes as tensions deepen

US President Donald Trump said Friday he had not yet decided whether to launch major strikes on Iran, as the renewed conflict threatened to widen across the region with Saudi Arabia striking Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Trump said he would hold off on a major operation as Tehran was now getting 'serious' in talks with Washington. 'No I haven't,' Trump told journalists in the Oval Office when asked if he had made a decision on hitting Iran hard. 'Look, we're talking to them right now. I think they're getting more and more serious as the days go by, for maybe the obvious reason.' Trump said Iran had a choice between making a deal or facing a 'much higher level' of strikes, after nearly two weeks of US attacks that have left a ceasefire in tatters. The war that Trump once predicted would last four or five weeks is now nearing its fifth month. Trump added that he did not know what the 'tipping point' would be for a decision, but reiterated that his red line would be if Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon. The Iranian military said Friday it had carried out attacks targeting US military assets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait in retaliation for Washington's latest strikes. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had targeted an Amazon data center in Bahrain. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for an early resumption of negotiations.