Israel and Iran war : World leaders try to predict Trump's next move
World leaders here at the G7 appear to be trying to second guess what President Donald Trump may or may not do next in the Middle East.
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the leaders had "talked about" American involvement.
Sir Keir Starmer had suggested earlier, before the US President’s more recent comments, that Trump hadn’t said anything that suggested he was about to get involved.
Things changed rather rapidly within hours of those remarks.
So, in short, the G7 is trying to second guess what President Trump is up to.
Iran and the Iranian people are trying to do the same. And so is the wider world. Which may well be exactly the point.
How does the Iranian regime and how do the Iranian people react to this huge uptick in threatening language and posture from the US?
I asked Sir Keir Starmer if he would welcome people in Iran overthrowing the government there.
"I'm no supporter of the regime in Iran," he told me.
"So, if the people there rose up against it, you'd welcome that?" I asked.
"Look, it's not for me as the UK prime minister to start, you know, encouraging people in relation to what they might do at home. My absolute focus is on the need to deescalate this."
The questions now are how, when and at what cost that might come about.
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