Iran live updates: Trump weighs strikes on Iranian energy sites, US officials say

President Donald Trump is weighing a round of intense strikes on energy targets in Iran that could begin as soon as this weekend, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Both officials said planning for the potential attacks was well underway, but that those plans could still change.

U.S. Central Command previously prepared plans for a two-week air campaign against Iran, but some officials within the administration believe that a shorter, more severe salvo could be more conducive to moving negotiations forward, according to one of the sources.

Another source said the potential strikes had been discussed with Israeli officials. However, it’s not clear whether Israel would be directly involved in the operation.

Iran has already threatened to retaliate against strikes on its energy sites by hitting Israeli targets and U.S. energy infrastructure in the Middle East, according to Iranian state media.

When asked about the potential U.S. attack, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in part that “Iran will continue to pay until they come to the table in, what President Trump deems, a meaningful way.”

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

President Donald Trump said the U.S. is "not stopping" strikes on Iran and continued to express frustrations over negotiations, though said "we want" to secure a deal.

In a phone interview with Real America Voice, Trump insisted that the U.S. is in a "strong position" and that Iran’s military is "destroyed."

"We hit them very hard. They ask us not to do it, and they want to negotiate. We start negotiating. In the midst of a negotiation, they fire five rockets at us. We knock all of them down, and then we beat the hell out of them, like last night," Trump said. "We beat the hell out of them. And we're not stopping, either."

The interview aired Friday afternoon, but it appears to have been pre-taped at some point on Thursday.

Regarding the number of U.S. servicemember deaths, Trump said there the death toll could vary "depending on definitions." This comes after the Pentagon revised its Iran war casualty figures database last week and reduced the number of U.S. troops listed as killed.

“With Iran, we're at 16 [American deaths], depending on definitions. We're at 16, 18 people, which is far too many, because one is too many,” Trump said, before pivoting to compare the Iran war’s duration with previous military conflicts.

-ABC News' Emily Chang and Michelle Stoddart

The U.S. Department of Defense's casualty database was updated Friday to reflect 32 additional U.S. troops wounded in the war with Iran, bringing the total number of wounded to 685.

It's unclear how long casualty reports take to appear in the system; the additional wounded service members were not necessarily injured within the past day.

Eighteen troops have been killed in action.

-ABC News' Steve Beynon

U.S. Central Command said it is aware and looking into reports of the death of an Iranian 2-year-old and their parents.

"The U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike Iranian forces that have launched thousands of missiles and drones targeting innocent people across the Middle East and killed over 50,000 of their own citizens earlier this year," Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, told ABC News in a statement Friday.

Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf accused the U.S. of targeting civilian residences, causing the death of parents and their 2-year-old child earlier this week.

"The United States soils its hands with a new crime every day; the terrorist attack on the residential homes of civilians on Qeshm Island is a continuation of the atrocities in Minab and Lamerd," Ghalibaf said in a statement.

"Americans have grown accustomed to making up for the slaps they receive on the battlefield by spilling the blood of the innocent. They will pay the price," Ghalibaf said.