President Donald Trump kept the world on edge Wednesday when pressed for updates regarding the Israel-Iran war, signaling he won’t telegraph whether he’ll deploy U.S. military assets.

Trump abruptly returned to Washington, D.C., from the Group of 7 Summit in Canada early Tuesday morning and convened a meeting of his National Security Council in the Situation Room, spurring reports that the president might soon enter the war effort against Iran.

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But U.S. warplanes did not aid Israeli forces in bombing Iranian military targets Tuesday night, and Trump stated at the White House Wednesday morning that he is intentionally not tipping his hand.

“You don’t seriously think I’m going to answer that question,” the president responded when asked when the United States might enter the fray. “You don’t know that I’m going to even do it. You don’t know. I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran’s got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate.”

Trump additionally claimed that Iranian government officials had reached out to him and suggested that they would travel to the White House to relaunch negotiations on a new nuclear deal.

“Why didn’t you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn’t you negotiate? I said to people, ‘Why didn’t you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have done fine. You would have had a country.’ It’s very sad to watch this,” he continued before adding that it wasn’t “too late” to find a diplomatic end to the conflict.

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The president mentioned that he had spoken to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Trump claimed that Putin offered to serve as an intermediary with Iran, a close ally of Russia, and that the president responded in kind by telling his Russian counterpart to “mediate your own” war first.

As for Netanyahu, Trump said Wednesday that he should “keep going” and believes the Israeli leader is being “treated very unfairly” in the press.