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Iran Launches Attack on US Base in Qatar
Iran Launches Attack
on US Base in Qatar
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Iran Launches Attack on US Base in Qatar

State media announces assault after explosions were reported

(Newser) - Iran has made its first retaliatory response to the US airstrikes—it fired a barrage of missiles at an American military base in Qatar on Monday, reports the Wall Street Journal . However, Qatar said it had successfully intercepted the missiles, or at least the first round of them. Sources tell...

Trump: 'Everyone, Keep Oil Prices Down'

'I'm watching,' he says

(Newser) - Oil prices have remained relatively stable despite US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites—and President Trump wants them to stay that way.
  • "EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I'M WATCHING!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday. "YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE
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Two Moves in Qatar Illustrate Iranian Tensions

Nation shuts down its airspace, and US embassy urges Americans to shelter in place

(Newser) - Iran hasn't yet retaliated over the American bombing of its nuclear sites, but a flurry of developments out of Qatar suggests the Persian Gulf nation is bracing to receive some of the blow. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Qatar is home to the Al Udeid Air Base, which...

Netanyahu: We're 'Very, Very Close' to Goals in Iran

But Israeli leader doesn't provide a timetable for ending the airstrikes

(Newser) - The world hasn't seen independent confirmation of the damage to Iran's nuclear sites by American bombers, but comments from Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu seem to suggest it's substantial.
  • "We embarked on this operation to eliminate the two concrete threats to our existence: the nuclear threat, the
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Putin: Trump Had No 'Justification' to Hit Iran

But it was unclear if Russia would provide any military assistance to its Mideast ally

(Newser) - Vladimir Putin offered his first public remarks about the US strikes on longtime Russian ally Iran on Monday—and he's not happy about them. But how that might translate into help for Tehran remained unclear.
  • "The absolutely unprovoked aggression against Iran has no basis and no justification,"
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Trump's Two-Week Deadline Wasn't Real

President was already all but certain he would authorize strikes on Iran, say multiple accounts

(Newser) - Several outlets are offering behind-the-scenes accounts of how and when President Trump gave the green light to bomb Iranian nuclear sites , and they're unanimous about one key point. When Trump said on Thursday that he would make a decision within two weeks, the deadline was a deliberate deception to...

Experts Suggest Iran Strike Is 'Incomplete'

Even as Trump insists sites were 'obliterated'

(Newser) - President Trump late Sunday used the word "obliteration" to describe what the US strikes did to Iran's nuclear facilities, but that's not what some early assessments indicate.
  • Trump's post on Truth Social: "Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by
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Trump on Regime Change Idea: 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN'

Even as advisers stress nuclear program is the focus

(Newser) - Even as President Trump's national security team spent Sunday emphasizing that the US is targeting only Iran's nuclear program, not aiming to topple its government, Trump's own Truth Social post Sunday night complicated that message: "If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN...

Nuclear Watchdog Reports Extensive Damage From Strikes

Security Council holds emergency meeting, which includes a ceasefire resolution

(Newser) - The US bombings "directly impacted" Iran's Fordo fuel enrichment facility, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Sunday. The strikes caused extensive damage at the Isfahan and Natanz sites, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told the UN Security Council in its emergency meeting, the Washington Post reports. "At...

Analysis: Trump Bets Presidency on Attack

Criticism of foreign entanglements marked his political rise

(Newser) - Other presidents have become ensnared in foreign fights. But for President Trump, the issue is complicated by the fact that he rose to political prominence by relentlessly criticizing them for it—especially George W. Bush for the Iraq War. What happens next, Michael Birnbaum and Natalie Allison write in a...

Other Nations Warn Conflict Could Spread

Russia warns Iran could still obtain nuclear weapons

(Newser) - Several close US allies are among the nations urging a return to the negotiating table in the wake of American strikes on Iran on Saturday that fueled fears of a wider conflict, while Russia was among those offering an ominous reaction. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cautioned that "this conflict...

Pentagon: 'Midnight Hammer' Operation Did 'Severe Damage'

Hegseth says the strikes on Iran are not about 'regime change'

(Newser) - Defense chief Pete Hegseth emphasized Sunday that the US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites were part of a "focused" mission and do not represent the start of an "open-ended" conflict. Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke to reporters at a Pentagon...

Iran's Foreign Minister Warns of 'Everlasting Consequences'

Top diplomat will meet with Vladimir Putin on Monday

(Newser) - The big question after the US strikes on Iran is how Tehran will respond. As of Sunday morning, that remained unclear, but Iran's foreign minister declared at a news conference that his nation "reserves all options to defend its security interests and people," reports the New York ...

A Look at the Three US Targets in Iran

Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan form the backbone of the Iranian nuclear program

(Newser) - When American B-2 bombers struck three nuclear facilities in Iran on Saturday, they went after what the Wall Street Journal describes as the "core of the Iranian nuclear infrastructure." The three:
  • Fordo: This one is "Iran's most critical nuclear enrichment facility," per the New York
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Fetterman Joins Republicans in Praising Strikes on Iran

Other Democrats call the move unconstitutional

(Newser) - Reaction to President Trump's decision to bomb Iran has largely split along party lines in Washington, with Democratic Sen. John Fetterman and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie two notable exceptions.
  • "As I've long maintained, this was the correct move by @POTUS," Fetterman tweeted, reports the Hill . "
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Iran State TV to Trump: 'You Started It, and We'll Finish It'

But how Tehran responds militarily to the US strikes was not immediately clear

(Newser) - How Iran will respond to the US strikes on three of its nuclear facilities remains unclear, but a commentator on state TV delivered a stark warning, reports the Times of Israel :
  • "You started it, and we'll finish it."
  • The male commentator also declared that every US citizen
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Trump Addresses Nation After Bombing Iran

'Iran, the bully of the Mideast, must now make peace'

(Newser) - President Trump gave a brief address to the nation Saturday night to explain his decision to have US bombers strike three Iranian nuclear sites —and he warned that more strikes would follow unless Iran acquiesced. "Iran, the bully of the Mideast, must now make peace," he said,...

US Bombed Nuclear Sites in Iran, Trump Announces

'All planes are safely on their way home,' president posts

(Newser) - US warplanes dropped bombs on nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, President Trump announced, ending the global uncertainty about his intentions in the Israel-Iran conflict that he had said might last another two weeks. He posted online that the planes had left Iranian airspace after striking three targets. "All...

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