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Donald Trump has told senior aides he approves of US attack plans for Iran, but was holding off on giving the go-ahead to see if Tehran will abandon its nuclear programme, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Three sources told the paper the US president is hoping that threatening to join Israel's strikes on Iran will make Tehran agree to his demands.

Earlier, the US president said: "I may do it. I may not do it."

The US has begun evacuating nonessential diplomats and their families from the US embassy in Israel as the air war between Israel and Iran intensifies.

A government plane evacuated a number of diplomats and their family members who had asked to leave the country, two US officials told the Associated Press.

The evacuations happened shortly before US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, announced on X that the embassy was making plans for evacuation flights and ships for American citizens (see 16.59 post).

Missiles have been launched from Iran towards Israel, the Israeli military says.

Donald Trump does not want to go to war with Iran and has left the door open for Tehran to resume negotiations, a former chief of staff of the US National Security Council has told Sky News.

Speaking on The World With Yalda Hakim, Fred Fleitz said the US president "is going to make Iran a pretty good deal for a peaceful nuclear programme".

But he said if Iran does not give up its enrichment programme then "the clock is running out" and Trump will send US bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on its Fordow nuclear site.

"Trump is a man of his word," he said. "He gave the Iranians 60 days. And if they don't agree soon on this, Trump has concluded that an Iranian nuclear weapon will be here soon.

"And it is not just a threat to Israel. It is a threat to the United States. And that's why I think there's a good chance Trump will drop bunker-buster bombs on the Fordow facility."

He said Iran would have to agree to give up the site and agree to stop enriching uranium: "If it wants a peaceful nuclear programme, the US will help it build one."

David Lammy is travelling to Washington for talks with his US counterpart Marco Rubio.

The foreign secretary will meet the US secretary of state after Donald Trump said he was considering whether to join Israeli strikes against Iran.

You can watch The World With Yalda Hakim in the live stream above.

During the show you can see her speaking with a former director of intelligence at Israeli spy agency Mossad, who told her it was "shocking" how quickly Israel "took down" Iran's air defences.

By Cordelia Lynch, Asia correspondent, in Tel Aviv

Israel has the firm edge in this conflict.

It's taken out Iran's top brass and their replacements. It's taken control of the skies over Tehran and it's not ruling out regime change either.

And Benjamin Netanyahu, who just a week ago was facing huge political opposition, now has the public and even his opponents backing him. But Iran's supreme leader isn't backing down - vowing to stand firm and warning the United States there will be huge risks if it joins the battle.

Yaakov Amidror, former head of the Israeli National Security Council, believes that's an empty threat.

"I think that the Iranians are using irrelevant language. They are bluffing. They don't have the capabilities they had two years ago. Hezbollah is gone. Hamas doesn't exist as a threat," he told me.

Amidror, who participated in high-level talks with US officials about the Iranian nuclear programme when he was national security advisor, believes Israel only needs the US for one thing - bunker-busting bombs to destroy Iran's Fordow nuclear facility.

"We don't have the capabilities to destroy from the air. The Americans have better capabilities to do it from the air. And for that, we need the Americans," he said.

Striking support for Israeli offensive on streets of Tel Aviv

The big question is just how involved the US is willing to be.

Donald Trump spent the first months of his term holding back Israel's push for an assault on Iran鈥檚 nuclear program. Now he appears to be seriously considering using American aircraft in the fight.

Whatever he decides, on the streets of Tel Aviv, there is striking support and even a bit of swagger around the Israeli offensive.

Iran recently issued an evacuation notice to the residents of Neve Tzedek, the first Jewish neighbourhood built outside of the old port city of Jaffa. And yet I met people who not only seem unfazed by that threat, but also confident about the days and possibly weeks ahead.

"I'm very relaxed here, this is Israel you know, we are safe here," Adi told me as he sat outside a cafe.

Israelis believe Netanyahu has moved at a critical time

Many people I've spoken to recently in Israel believe Netanyahu has moved at a critical time and successfully - even if they have been critical of his leadership on many other fronts.

For Adi's friend Jackie, tackling Tehran is long overdue.

"For 45 years Iran has said to all the world we are going to destroy Israel," he said.

It is a country he says "manufactures weapons and little else".

Many Israelis have been raised on the belief Iran is an existential threat. But this is a perilous moment. And there's no white flag yet. All eyes are now on the United States and a leader who can so quickly turn.

Donald Trump has said Iran wants to meet and he "may do that", as he prepares to hold a meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict in the Situation Room.

Speaking at the White House the US president said Israel's strikes on Iran were "devastating".

"It's a terrible thing," he said. "I hate to see all that death, so much death and destruction."

He said Israel is doing well in its attacks aimed at dismantling Iran's nuclear facilities, and he believed Iran was a few weeks away from having a nuclear weapon before the attacks began.

Trump said he has "ideas as to what to do" but added: "I like to make a final decision one second before it's due."

He said his supporters don't want to see Iran get a nuclear weapon.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says it has fired Sejil super-heavy, long-range, two-stage missiles at Israel.

The missiles are around 18m long and can strike targets as far away as 2,000km.

The IRGC says the missiles begin their 12th wave of attacks.

Earlier it said Israelis "must choose between a slow death in a hellish life inside bunkers or flee Israel".

Republican senator Ted Cruz says Donald Trump is not in danger of breaching his campaign promise not to take the US into another foreign war.

The US president has said he is considering a strike on Iran.

"Nobody is talking about invading Iran, we're not going to see boots on the ground," he tells US correspondent David Blevins.

He says Israel has a "discreet need" for bunker-busting bombs to attack Iran's Fordow nuclear site, which America has.

"Iran is also building ICBMs," he says.

"An ICBM is to take a nuclear weapon to the United States to murder Americans and President Trump is going to keep Americans safe."