In a brief interview, he said the country’s hardened military should simply surrender their weapons to the Iranian public.
As Mayor Zohran Mamdani assailed what he called a “catastrophic escalation” in Iran, some Iranian Americans worried about what comes next, while others celebrated.
Videos and images verified by The New York Times showed that at least half of the school was destroyed. It was not immediately clear why the school was hit, or which country’s forces had fired at it.
President Trump again deployed heavy force against a country with which he had been negotiating, continuing a pattern seen in previous attacks on Iran and Venezuela.
The grim toll signaled that Iran was more prepared for war than the Trump administration anticipated, U.S. military officials said.
Despite warnings after an earlier wave of killings, top Iranian officials gathered in person, and Israel seized the chance to kill Iran’s supreme leader.
How long prices remain high will depend on what the United States, Israel and Iran do next.
The Israeli military says it identified a significant recent acceleration in Iran’s efforts to rebuild its missile production capabilities.
Experts say that Iran’s clerical rulers may be too deeply entrenched for Iranians to topple them, and that the U.S. and Israeli strikes risk setting off deeper radicalization or violence.
Images showed new roofs and structures connecting existing buildings at the compound where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on Saturday.