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Democrats, frustrated with a lack of public details about the war, are calling for hearings on Capitol Hill

Trump threatens US can make Iran 'almost impossible' to rebuild US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran was on the verge of defeat, adding that American attacks on the country could make it "almost impossible" to rebuild". "They are pretty much at the end of the line," he told reporters in Washington. "We can hit sections of Tehran and other places that if you do it, it'll be almost impossible for them to rebuild their country, and we don't want that." The US president also added that the US was "going to look very strongly at the straits". "We're just riding free range over that country, and now we're going to look very strongly at the straits. The straits are in great shape."

Hezbollah and Iran had launched joint attack on more than 50 targets including Israeli military bases Middle East live – latest updates Israeli warplanes bombarded Beirut’s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon after Hezbollah launched drones and rockets at northern Israel on Wednesday night in a sharp escalation of the 10-day conflict. Hezbollah let off successive volleys of rockets and drone swarms at Israel on Wednesday night, injuring two people, with most of the projectiles either being intercepted or falling into open areas. Continue reading...

The country's prime minister urges resilience, says government committed to ensuring people's lives are not disrupted.

Trump claims US has destroyed much of Iran’s military capabilities US President Donald Trump said the US has destroyed Iran’s navy, air defence systems, radar networks and parts of its leadership during its war on Iran. “And we could do a lot worse,” he told reporters, adding that remaining targets in the country could be eliminated “in an hour”. Trump also said he was not concerned about possible Iran-backed attacks on US soil and urged oil companies to continue using the Strait of Hormuz despite Iranian warnings.

Iran warns regional ports could become targets if its facilities are attacked Iran’s senior military spokesperson warned that ports in the region could become “legitimate targets” if Iranian port facilities come under attack. It came shortly after the US military advised civilians in Iran to avoid all port facilities along the Strait of Hormuz where Iranian naval forces are operating. The spokesperson said Iran would respond if its maritime infrastructure is targeted by the US and Israel

Iran says ending war requires guarantees against future attacks Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said ending the war will require recognition of Tehran’s “legitimate rights” and guarantees against future aggression. In a post on X, Pezeshkian said he had spoken with leaders in Russia and Pakistan and repeated Iran’s claim that the war was “ignited by the Zionist regime and the US”. He said any resolution must include recognition of Iran’s rights, reparations and international assurances to prevent further attacks.

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Iran war, long TSA lines raise the stakes of intractable DHS shutdown  USA Today

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How Trump has addressed the deadly Iran school bombing  Al Jazeera

US generals tell Trump destroying Iranian vessel was ‘fun’ US President Donald Trump said he questioned the decision to sink an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka.  Speaking at a rally in Hebron, Kentucky, Trump said he had asked military officials why the vessel was destroyed rather than captured. “I said, why the hell did we kill them? Why didn’t we just capture them and use them in our Navy?” he told supporters. Trump added that one of his generals told him sinking the vessel was preferable, saying: “Sir, it’s a lot more fun.” The Iranian navy frigate was torpedoed and sunk by a US submarine in international waters near Sri Lanka last week, with dozens of sailors killed in the attack.

US Senate Democrats Want Answers on Strike Targeting Iran Girls' School, Civilian Casualties  U.S. News & World Report

The Trump administration has pushed to increase the ‘lethality’ of U.S. war operations, a move critics say will lead to more civilian deaths

Trump ditched plans to avoid civilian casualties before Iran strikes: report  The Independent

How much is the Iran war costing taxpayers? Here's what estimates show  USA Today

Qatar warns UN Security Council inaction sends ‘dangerous signal’ Qatar’s ambassador to the United Nations urged the Security Council to act to halt the US-Israeli assault on Iran which has escalated into a war across the Middle East.  Speaking to reporters in New York, Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, said continued Iranian attacks on Qatari territory were damaging relations between the two countries. “The Security Council must act and fulfill its responsibility,” she said. “Failure to respond would send a dangerous signal that attacks against uninvolved neighbours carry no consequences.”

Trump's war on Iran creates an economic storm for consumers and the Fed  NBC News

WHO says 54 of health facilities shut in Lebanon amid Israeli attacks The World Health Organization said 49 primary healthcare centres and five hospitals in Lebanon have shut down as the US-Israeli war on Iran and its wider spillover in the region intensifies. In a post on X, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the closures followed evacuation orders and were severely limiting access to medical care. He warned that health systems across the region are under heavy strain more than 10 days into the escalation. The WHO has also verified 18 attacks on health facilities in Iran, 25 in Lebanon and two in Israel since 28 February.

Trump says he's unaware of evidence indicating US bombed girls' school in Iran Yasmine El-Sabawi on Wed, 03/11/2026 - 17:58 This comes four days after the president insisted that Iran targeted the school, killing mostly children US President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters before boarding Marine One from the White House in Washington, DC, on 11 March 2026 (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Off Four days after US President Donald Trump put the blame on Tehran for the bombing of a girls' school in Minab, Iran, he told reporters he's unaware of the mounting evidence that it was likely the result of a US air strike.  At least 165 people died in that air strike. Most were children.  "A new report says a military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school," a reporter told the president on Wednesday, as he took questions outside the White House. She repeated her statement a second time when he didn't appear to hear it, and asked him to respond.  "I don't know," Trump said.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); An analysis of satellite images as well as photographs of residual weapons at the destruction site, carried out by The New York Times, indicated last week that the US was the most likely culprit.  The investigative outfit Bellingcat later released video of what appeared to be a Tomahawk missile - a distinctly US munition - hitting a building near the school.  At a Monday evening press conference, Trump said that "whether it’s Iran or somebody else... a Tomahawk is very generic".  The Associated Press then reported that night that an unnamed Trump administration official admitted the US very likely bombed the school, not Israel, and not Iran.  "What more do you need to do, militarily, for this operation to end?" another reporter asked Trump on Wednesday outside the White House. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "More of the same," he responded. Unpopular war Senate Democrats have now sent a letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth demanding answers. "We write to you with grave concern," they said. "The results of this school attack are horrific. The majority of those killed in the strikes were girls between the ages of 7 and 12 years old. Neither the United States nor the Israeli Government has yet taken responsibility for this attack." US has ‘no plan’ for Iran war and Strait of Hormuz, senators say after briefing Read More » Hegseth told reporters last week that he believes this war should have "no stupid rules of engagement". "You set the tone for US military conduct, and your recent comments send a clear message of disregard for the laws of war," Democrats wrote.  Trump's unwillingness to pull back or draw down the war on Iran has proven largely unpopular with Americans, based on separate polling conducted since 28 February by Quinnipiac University, CNN, and Drop Site News.  On Wednesday, the National Iranian American Council released the results of its own phone survey on the war with more than 500 Iranian Americans, reflecting an even division between those who oppose and support it. In the poll, 49.3 percent of respondents said they oppose the US-Israeli war on Iran, while 48.9 percent said they support it. Another 1.8 percent said they preferred not to answer. 'This thing is a victory' In a signal that perhaps even the most hardline conservatives and Trump loyalists want the president to end the as-yet undefined mission, Republican senator Josh Hawley told Fox News on Tuesday that he thinks the US has done enough to now claim victory against Iran, seemingly encouraging Trump to call it a day.  "You had Trump taking out the nukes back in June. Now you've had the last 10 days. Does anybody really think that these people are ever going to try to make a nuke again? What would they make it with? Charcoal?" Hawley said. A day earlier, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt maintained that the war was, in fact, about nuclear weapons - even though Trump had branded the programme long "obliterated".  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "I mean, this is an overriding success," Hawley said. "You look at all the success that we've had in the last 10 days. I mean, this thing is a victory. I think we should be hailing our military as the heroes they are. We ought to be thanking them for their service, and we ought to be saying we've achieved our objectives here, big time." Interceptor shortage could force Gulf states to be selective in their targets: Report Read More » But it's unclear what the US endgame is, and senators on Tuesday night left a closed-door briefing on the war with one conclusion: the US has no plan. “What you hear behind closed doors is essentially what we’re hearing in the public domain, which is complete incoherence,” Senator Chris Van Hollen said after the briefing. “It is so much worse than you thought,” said Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator.  “The Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies, and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation. Trump has not given a single clear reason for the war and has no plan to end it,” she added.  It's unclear how much longer the war could drag on. More than 1,300 Iranians have been killed thus far, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said.  More than 43,000 US citizens have now returned home from the Middle East since 28 February, the State Department announced on Wednesday. The agency has assumed a more robust response to panicked Americans after initially bungling the response to the war, and only putting out "shelter-in-place" warnings after the bombs began falling from all sides.  With more than a million Americans residing in the affected regions as Iran mounts retaliatory strikes against US assets, most have chosen to stay or find their own way back without US government assistance via charter flights, the State Department indicated.  War on Iran Washington News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0