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We are aware of reports that a US F-35 aircraft conducted an emergency landing at a regional US airbase after flying a combat mission over Iran. The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition. This incident is under investigation.

The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding US operations, with the Iran war well into its third week, Reuters reported on Thursday, at the same time further entrenching the US in a foreign war, the like of which he had repeatedly promised never to do.

Trump, in a White House meeting with Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin on St. Patrick's Day, said NATO is making a "very foolish mistake" by not helping out with escorting tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. "We don't need them but they should've been there," Trump said, reiterating what he said in his earlier Truth Social post.

The United States has spent $12bn on its war against Iran since launching joint strikes on the country with Israel on February 28, Trump's top economic adviser said, as domestic concerns grow over the Middle East conflict's burgeoning economic impacts. Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, gave the figure on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday saying it is the latest he's been briefed on so far.

Trump told the NBC News broadcaster on Saturday that the US strikes totally demolished much of the oil export hub and warned of more attacks on the island. 'We may hit it a few more times just for fun,' he said. The remarks would mark an escalation for Trump, who had previously said the US was targeting only military sites on Kharg.

President Donald Trump said US forces obliterated military targets on Kharg Island off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf where 90% of Iran's oil is exported. Iran later confirmed there was no damage to its oil infrastructure, as the country had said it would strike US allies in the region if there had been any damage.

If they do that, the whole region will go dark in less than half an hour and darkness provides ample opportunity to hunt down US servicemen running for safety. While starting a war is easy, it cannot be won with a few tweets. We will not relent until making you sorry for this grave miscalculation.

I emerge from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years. I am most concerned about the threat to American lives of potentially deploying our sons and daughters on the ground in Iran. We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here.

Best money ever spent. What's it worth to America to take down a religious Nazi regime who's trying to build a nuclear weapon to deliver to America? That's a really good investment. When this regime goes down, we're going to have a new Mideast, we're going to make a ton of money, nobody will threaten the Straits of Hormuz again.

Congress's House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference last week that President Donald Trump is plunging America into another endless conflict in the Middle East and spending billions of dollars to bomb Iran. But they can't find a dime to make it more affordable for the American people to go see a doctor when they need one.

From a defense policy perspective, I thought what General Kaine, the chairman of our Joint Chiefs of Staff, yesterday said was really important. He said the military objective was to eliminate Iran's ability to project power across the Middle East. And what he means by that are the three major concerns that US defense policymakers have had for a really long time: Iran's nuclear weapons program, Iran's missile program, and Iran's support for terrorism across the Middle East.

I don't have any love lost for the ayatollahs, said Iraj Roshan, a 66-year-old retired cardiologist and US citizen who was born in Tehran. But these wars are won by narrative. I don't see any way this war is going to end in a way that the US can declare victory without putting boots on the ground or without arming the Iranians themselves.

An American submarine sank an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. The Iranian warship was leaving India's southern port of Visakhapatnam after attending the International Fleet Review 2026 and MILAN 2026, which is the Indian Navy's flagship multilateral naval drill.

Iran is a bad actor and must be aggressively confronted for its human rights violations, nuclear ambitions, support of terrorism and the threat it poses to our allies like Israel and Jordan in the region. However, absent exigent circumstances, the Trump administration must seek authorization for the preemptive use of military force that constitutes an act of war.

It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone - the United States or Israel or anyone - they were going to respond, and respond against the United States. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn't pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.

And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties ... And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act. Obviously, we were aware of Israeli intentions and understood what that would mean for us, and we had to be prepared to act as a result of it. But this had to happen no matter what.

We didn't start this war but under President Trump we're finishing it. This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change, and the world is better off for it. He said the U.S. goal in Iran was to destroy the missile threats, destroy the navy, no nukes.

The U.S. and Israel conducted attacks on Iran early Saturday after weeks of negotiations and the biggest military build-up since the war in Iraq. The airstrikes follow the 12 Day War last June, when the U.S. joined Israel's air campaign to target Tehran's nuclear facilities. While President Donald Trump had reportedly considered limited attacks on the regime, sources told CNN that the U.S. involvement was "not a small strike."