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One Detail of Iran's Attack on US Base May Be Telling

Tehran says it used the same number of bombs as the US, suggesting it's not looking to escalate

(Newser) - The Pentagon says it has no reports of injuries or deaths at its military base in Qatar after Iran fired a barrage of missiles , reports the Washington Post . And the AP notes that Iran made a point to say that it used the same number of missiles as the US...

Iran Launches Attack on US Base in Qatar
Iran Launches Attack
on US Base in Qatar
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Jun 23, 2025 12:39 PM CDT

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...

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
...

Iran's Fordo Hit Again, This Time by Israel

Israel reportedly also hit Evin Prison, state broadcaster building

(Newser) - Israel's military struck targets in central Tehran with "unprecedented intensity" on Monday, according to Israeli defense minister Israel Katz. The military said it was striking command centers of the Revolutionary Guards and other security forces responsible "for defending the homeland security, suppressing threats, and maintaining the regime'...

Why the Strait of Hormuz Is Such a Question Mark
Why the Strait of Hormuz
Is Such a Question Mark
THE RUNDOWN
Jun 23, 2025 7:11 AM CDT

Why the Strait of Hormuz Is Such a Question Mark

Will Iran attempt to close it or not?

(Newser) - It's less a million-dollar question and more a billion-dollar one: Will Iran move to close the Strait of Hormuz? About 20 million barrels of oil—amounting to about 20% of global oil and gas—flow through the strait daily by the US Energy Information Administration's count, and Reuters...

Iran Issues Single-Sentence Warning to Trump

Tehran again vows response in wake of US bombing of nuclear sites

(Newser) - Iran on Monday issued a direct warning to President Trump in the wake of the US attack on its nuclear sites and expressed that Tehran now sees a greater number of "legitimate targets" for retaliation. Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaqari put it like so, per Reuters :
  • "Mr.
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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...

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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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
...

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...

B-2s, Which Would Be Needed for Iran Strike, Are Over Pacific

Show of force precedes Trump's meeting with national security team

(Newser) - Multiple B-2s stealth bombers left Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and were flying west over the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, US officials said, hours before President Trump was to meet with his national security team to weigh bombing a nuclear target in Iran. The B-2 is the only US...

Houthis Threaten US Ships in Red Sea if Iran Is Bombed
Houthis Warn US to Stay Out
Jun 21, 2025 1:30 PM CDT

Houthis Warn US to Stay Out

Bombing in Iran would bring attacks in Red Sea, rebels say

(Newser) - If the US attacks Iran, Yemen's Houthis warned Saturday, they will attack American ships in the Red Sea. The statement said the group will stand by any Arab or Muslim country attacked by Israel, NBC News reports, contending that Israel is trying to eliminate Iran and dominate the Middle...

Trump: My Intel Chief Is 'Wrong' on Iran's Nukes

Tulsi Gabbard, meanwhile, says her testimony in Congress on the matter was taken out of context

(Newser) - President Trump on Friday said that his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was "wrong" when she previously said that the US believed Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon, suggesting it would be "very hard to stop" Israel's strikes on Iran in order to negotiate a...

Noonan: Trump Has a Smart Play to Make on Iran
Noonan: Amid Iran
Uncertainty, One Move Is Clear
OPINION
Jun 20, 2025 11:25 AM CDT

Noonan: Amid Iran Uncertainty, One Move Is Clear

Before 'epochal' decision, Trump should give Congress a say in the matter

(Newser) - "The price a government or party pays for being dramatically wrong can have foreign-policy reverberations that last generations," writes columnist Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal . She's referring to the "epochal" year of 2003, when the US blundered into war with Iraq. Two decades later,...

Israel Puts Modern War Theory to the Test

A successful air-only campaign would be unprecedented

(Newser) - As the diplomacy front continues , so do Israel's aerial strikes on Iran. And the steady bombardment is challenging a decades-old military maxim that air power alone is not enough to win a military conflict, writes Marcus Walker in a Wall Street Journal analysis. Israel seemingly has no plans to...

Trump Deploys His Favorite Deadline: 'Two Weeks'

President has frequently used it over both his administrations on difficult matters

(Newser) - When President Trump informed the world on Thursday that he would make his decision on whether to bomb Iran within two weeks , it was a familiar tactic. "As almost everyone in Washington is by now aware, 'two weeks' is one of Mr. Trump's favorite units of time,...

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