SpaceWar.com reports: “Iran warned it would hold the United States responsible if Israel attacks its nuclear facilities, but President Donald Trump’s administration voiced optimism for a peaceful solution Thursday before new talks.

Trump spoke about his diplomacy on Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said, in a telephone call largely focused on an attack in Washington that killed two Israeli embassy employees.

Israel has repeatedly threatened military action against arch-enemy Iran and CNN, citing unnamed US officials, reported Tuesday that Israel was making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear sites despite the ongoing US-Iran talks.

‘We believe that in the event of any attack on the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Zionist regime, the US government will also be involved and bear legal responsibility,’ Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a letter to the United Nations.

‘Iran strongly warns against any adventurism by the Zionist regime and will respond decisively to any threat or unlawful act by this regime,’ Araghchi added…”