Trump to decide within next two weeks whether to get directly involved in Israel-Iran conflict: WH

President Donald Trump will make a decision within the next two weeks on whether the U.S. becomes directly involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

Trump has seemed to go back and forth in recent days about if, how or to what extent the U.S. would get involved, likely with providing some type of military support to Israel, the United States' longest and closest Middle East ally.

The decision follows Israeli airstrikes on Iran last week and amid the United States' failing efforts to get Tehran to stop the enrichment of uranium to make a nuclear weapon.  

"I have a message directly from the president, and I quote, 'Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,'" Leavitt said at a White House briefing quoting Trump," Leavitt said. "That's a quote directly from the president for all of you today."