Day 5: US assets hit across Mid-East; Israel launches fresh strikes on Iran, Lebanon

Explosions were heard across Iran’s capital before dawn Wednesday as the country’s escalating conflict with the United States and Israel entered a fifth day, marking one of the most intense periods of fighting in the region in decades. The latest blasts in Tehran followed days of sustained US-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites […]

‘Most people we had in mind are dead’: Donald Trump after Khamenei assassination

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) said that “most of the people we had in mind are dead” when asked about potential future leaders in Iran following the killing of Tehran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the early phase of Operation Epic Fury.Speaking during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich […]

Iran Strategy: Iran’s strategy: Expand war, increase cost, outlast Donald Trump

A police station lies in ruins after an airstrike in Tehran on Tuesday By Steven ErlangerThe Islamic Republic of Iran’s first priority is to survive. To do that, its leaders will want to drive up the cost of the war for President Trump – in terms of American casualties, costs and inflation – to try […]

‘I’m not happy with the UK’: Donald Trump criticizes Keir Starmer over military access

President Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his criticism of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not initially permitting American warplanes to use UK bases to strike Iran, saying “this is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with”.Trump said the historical relationship between the United States and Britain was “not like it used to be”, […]

‘4 days without a plan’: Trump admin slammed as it issues helpline number for Americans stranded in Middle East

The Donald Trump administration Tuesday pushed through the messaging that they are actively trying to rescue hundreds of Americans stranded in the Middle East, four days after the crisis began. The State Department said it was actively securing military aircraft and charter flights for American citizens who wish to leave the Middle East. “We’ve been […]

Kash Patel fires FBI agents with Iran expertise days before Tehran strike, also ousts members who investigated Trump: Report

FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, targeting an elite counter-espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specialises in Iran, where the US, along with Israel, launched a strike.The firings came as Patel claimed, without evidence, […]

‘Craziest experience’: Trump adviser, Dallas dog walker rescued from Middle East on private jet while thousands stranded amid Iran crisis

While tens of thousands of Americans are stranded in Middle East countries and the US asked them to immediately leave those countries, though the airports are closed, an elite group of influencers and one Trump adviser were rescued on a private jet with the direct assistance from the White House. The group included Trump adviser […]

‘Everything knocked out’: Trump on Iran strikes, says he ‘might have forced Israel’s hand’

Trump talking to reporters with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz US President Donald Trump on Tuesday addressed the ongoing escalations in Iran after a joint op with Israel that killed their Supreme Leader Khamenei. Trump claimed that “everything has been knocked out” and that he “might have forced Israel’s hand” as he believed that Iran “would […]

After ‘solving’ eight wars, Trump gives ten interviews to explain initiating ninth: I got Khamenei before he got me

TOI Correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Sunday offered a raft of explanations for launching “Operation Epic Fury,” the devastating air campaign against Iran that killed its supreme leader Ali Khamenei, including one gotcha justification: “I got him before he got me.”In a series of interviews with several USmedia outlets – ten by […]

‘I wouldn’t have served them either’: Major row over Smoothie King refusing service to man wearing Trump hoodie

A video of a woman complaining that her husband was refused services at a Smoothie King store in Michigan only because he was wearing a Trump hoodie went viral, forcing the company to take immediate action to fire two employees at that particular outlet. But the controversy was far from ending there, as MAGA found […]