With the future of Iran deeply uncertain, President Trump acknowledged that it could end up with a ruler “as bad” as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
With the future of Iran deeply uncertain, President Trump acknowledged that it could end up with a ruler “as bad” as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
European countries organized flights from Israel, Oman, and the U.A.E. The United States said it would charter free flights for its citizens but disclosed few details.
Who will lead Iran once the war is over? “Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” says President Trump.
The Pentagon and Middle Eastern countries say that most of the drones have been intercepted. But some have slipped through and caused damage.
“We’ll see what happens with the people,” President Trump said as he appeared to be distancing himself from the longer-term consequences of the war in Iran.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq offered a stark lesson in the limits of military force. The Iran attacks suggest an era of postwar wariness is over.
The United States and Israel started a war with Iran by killing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
President Trump also declined to rule out sending ground troops into Iran as the conflict spread into the Gulf countries and Lebanon and Israel exchanged strikes.
A surge in sensors and cameras, combined with artificial intelligence, has transformed U.S. intelligence’s ability to locate foreign heads of state. Add to that an American president willing to capture or kill them.