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Full House and Senate to be briefed on Iran strikes – US politics live

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Rubio, Hegseth and Caine to address lawmakers Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. With all members of Congress across both houses due to be briefed today on the Iran strikes, the Trump administration has presented a shifting new justification for its war. In his first conference since the joint US-Israel operation against Iran, Donald Trump laid out his administration’s objectives moving forward.
What is Trump’s endgame with Iran? | Robert Reich

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This is a war without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear understanding of where it leads or how it ends I’ve spent the last several days checking with foreign policy experts, analysts and specialists in the Middle East for their understanding of Donald Trump’s real goal in Iran, and how anyone (including him) will know he’s achieved it. Several told me that Trump is seeking the kind of “war” that the US executed in Venezuela – an abduction of a leader by special forces or, as in June, surgical airstrikes on locations where Iran appeared to be building nuclear bombs. Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Middle East crisis live: Israel launches fresh attacks on Tehran and Beirut

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Israeli airforce attacking cities simultaneously with a ‘wave of extensive strikes’ as soldiers are deployed on the ground in southern Lebanon US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel’s plan to launch attack, Rubio says Anger with Hezbollah boils as war returns to weary Beirut US secretary of state Marco Rubio has claimed the US attacked Iran after learning that Israel was going to strike, which would have meant retaliation against US forces. “We knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” he told reporters The Air Force is now attacking Tehran and Beirut simultaneously The Air Force has now begun a wave of extensive strikes against the Iranian terror regime and the Hezbollah terror organization. Continue reading...
US embassy in Riyadh hit by Iranian drones as Israeli troops enter southern Lebanon

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Iran continues to target American bases and Hezbollah fires at Israel as conflict spreads across Middle East US-Israel war on Iran – live updates Iranian drones hit the US embassy in Riyadh as Tehran continued to launch waves of retaliatory strikes at the Gulf and Israel, while Israeli soldiers began operating in southern Lebanon on the fourth day of an increasingly regional war in the Middle East. The drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh caused a minor fire, prompting the diplomatic mission to tell Americans to distance themselves from the compound. The attack followed an earlier Iranian drone strike on the US embassy in Kuwait, as Iran continued to target US bases, facilities and personnel in Arab Gulf states.
Trump rebukes Starmer over UK refusal to back strikes on Iran

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US president says ‘relationship is not what it was’ after PM defends decision not to allow use of British bases Middle East crisis – live updates US-Israel war on Iran: what we know on day four Donald Trump has criticised Keir Starmer again over the UK’s refusal to aid the offensive strikes on Iran, saying the “relationship is obviously not what it was”. Starmer had issued his strongest rebuke yet of Trump’s action in Iran, saying the UK did not believe in “regime change from the skies” and defended his decision not to allow the use of British bases to conduct the strikes. Continue reading...
Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’

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Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined The use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears human decision-makers could be sidelined. Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology “shortens the kill chain” – meaning the process of target identification through to legal approval and strike launch. Continue reading...
US and Israel offer shifting justifications for Iran war: what we know on day four

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US secretary of state Marco Rubio says Saturday’s strikes on Iran were a pre-emptive action; Benjamin Netanyahu says it will not be ‘an endless war’ US-Israel war on Iran – live updates The United States attacked Iran after learning that ally Israel was going to strike, which would have meant retaliation against US forces, secretary of state Marco Rubio said . “We knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio told reporters. The justification for the attack differs from justifications given by Donald Trump and defence secretary Pete Hegseth.
Fire at US embassy in Riyadh after drone strike – as it happened

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This blog is closed. Follow news and updates from the US-Israel war on Iran in our new live blog here US-Israel war on Iran live: latest news and updates Bahrain has said that one person was killed by shrapnel from an intercepted missile. The death of a foreign worker at Salman Industrial City , working on a boat there, marks the kingdom’s first reported fatality in the war.
US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel’s plan to launch attack, Rubio says

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Democrats disturbed by rationale that Trump ordered pre-emptive strikes out of concern about Tehran retaliation US-Israel war on Iran – live updates Israel’s determination to attack Iran and the certainty that US troops would be targeted in response forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said, in a new explanation for Washington’s surprise entry into the conflict. The rationale drew divided reviews from top members of Congress who on Monday evening received the first briefing by the Trump administration since it ordered the air campaign to begin over the weekend. Continue reading...
‘Open betrayal’ or ‘just and imperative’? Trump’s Iran strikes divide conservative media

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Trump’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran has divided the American right – from Murdoch’s cheerleaders to Maga isolationists Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to get the US out of “endless wars”, put “America first” and focus on domestic policy. After his first term, he was fond of boasting, somewhat misleadingly , that there were “no wars” during his presidency. Now the Trump administration’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran has shocked the US and the world.