The U.S. President is reportedly weighing whether to launch a military strike, threatening Iran’s leader: “Our patience is wearing thin.”

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it saw that Israel did not want mediation efforts over its conflict with Iran, now in its fifth day amid what Moscow said was "galloping escalation". Israel launched its air war with a surprise attack last week that has killed nearly the entire top echelon of Iran's military commanders and its leading nuclear scientists.