KANANASKIS, Alberta — Donald Trump has said nothing to indicate the U.S. is preparing direct missile strikes on Iran, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday.

Starmer told journalists at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada “there is nothing the president said that suggests he’s about to get involved in this conflict,” despite mounting speculation Trump could be preparing to intervene.

Starmer said after sitting next to Trump at dinner on Monday that there was “no doubt in my mind” the president was serious about de-escalating the Israel-Iran conflict.

The U.S. president will convene a National Security Council in the Situation Room Tuesday, after abruptly leaving the G7 summit early on Monday night. 

The New York Times reported that Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu is urging Trump to bomb the Fordow facility — one of the key pillars of Iran’s nuclear program — after days of Israeli strikes on key targets across the country. 

A direct U.S. intervention in Iran would be a moment of major historical significance and would stoke grave concerns of the two countries sliding into war.

Starmer reiterated calls to de-escalate the situation, while saying that Iran must never be allowed to finish building a nuclear weapon.

“We are deeply concerned about the program, I certainly do not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” the British leader said.

Just before exiting the summit, Trump signed a joint G7 agreement that called for a “resolution of the Iranian crisis leads to a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza” and maintained that Tehran should never have a nuclear weapon.

However, Trump then told journalists on Air Force One he was not working toward a Iran-Israel ceasefire — and attacked Emmanuel Macron on Truth Social for suggesting he was.

Trump said he wanted “a real end” to the conflict and for Iran to completely surrender their nuclear program, while also shooting down reports he was calling for meetings with Iranian leaders.

A person close to the White House meanwhile told POLITICO Playbook that Trump is “engaged in a process of deterrence.”

“It only works if he’s willing to go through with the threat. And he almost certainly is,” they added.

G7 disarray

Israel and Iran have been swapping missile strikes for five nights now, after Netanyahu conducted surprise attacks on Iranian military leaders and nuclear sites last week.

Israel has also assassinated a number of Tehran’s scientists as a part of its mission to wipe out Iran’s nuclear program.

Iran has been increasing its strikes on civilian targets, with Tel Aviv and Haifa under attack in recent nights.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News on Monday that “we are postured defensively in the region to be strong in pursuit of a peace deal.”

“And we certainly hope that’s what happens here,” Hegseth says.

European leaders have spent much of the G7 summit calling for an end to the conflict and for a united front on the issue.

However, this has been made difficult with Trump’s freewheeling comments at the end of the summit.

Macron said at the G7 that “right now I believe negotiations need to restart and that civilians need to protected”.

Dasha Burns contributed reporting.