New York Times: President Trump met on Saturday with the families of the first six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war as their bodies arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Half a world away, the United States and Israel pressed on with their bombardment of Iran, while Iran fired retaliatory missiles at Israel and its neighbors with U.S. bases…
Wall Street Journal: In less than a week after launching a massive military assault on Iran, President Trump has gone from telling its people the future is “yours to take” to insisting he will decide on a new leader and demanding the “unconditional surrender” of the current regime…
New York Times: The U.S. and Israel have pounded Iran’s leadership and undercut its defense capabilities, but President Trump has offered wildly different explanations for what he hopes to achieve…
CNN: Mixed signals: Conflicting statements from Iranian officials underscore possible rifts within the leadership following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran’s top security official said President Donald Trump “must pay the price” for the war. And while Iran’s president apologized for attacks in neighboring nations, in a later “explanation,” his office vowed to continue striking US targets in the region…
Washington Post: President Donald Trump on Saturday said the United States would expand its targets in the war in Iran after its president apologized to neighboring countries caught up in the spiraling conflict but rejected the notion of surrender…
Washington Post: A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the Trump administration raises the specter of an extended military campaign that officials sayhas “only just begun.”…
Financial Times: Donald Trump’s options to reverse soaring oil prices triggered by his war in Iran are severely limited unless he can rapidly reopen the Strait of Hormuz to allow crude to flow from the Gulf, experts have warned…
Bloomberg: The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait started reducing oil production, as the near-closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz ripples through energy markets and affects global supply…
Wall Street Journal: The U.S.-Israeli air war on Iran is leaving a trail of destruction across the capital of Tehran, spreading a sense of dread and paranoia across a 1,000-year-old city that has seen war before but never anything like this…
Financial Times: US allies in the Arab world have been plunged into a conflict they neither wanted nor consented to. Historian Eugene Rogan on what it means for the Middle East…
Financial Times: A clutch of vessels trapped in the Gulf under enemy fire are adopting a tried-and-tested ruse to avoid attack: using transponders to declare themselves to be Chinese.
At least 10 ships over the past week have altered their destination signal to read “Chinese Owner”, “All Chinese Crew” or “Chinese Crew Onboard”, according to data from MarineTraffic analysed by the FT…
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