THE LATEST | CANADANew York Times: Israel began attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon early Monday, shattering a fragile truce that had been in place for about a year and threatening to destabilize the region as both the United States and Israel ramped up strikes on Iran…
CNN: Briefings undercut White House claim: Pentagon briefers acknowledged to congressional staff that Iran was not planning to strike US forces in the Middle East unless Israel attacked Iran first, undercutting the administration’s claim of an imminent threat from Tehran as a reason to launch strikes, said sources…
New York Times: Oil prices rose as much as 13 percent as markets opened on Sunday evening, underscoring the economic risks of the widening conflict in the Middle East.
The U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran could severely restrict supplies from a key oil and gas-producing region. Even if the disruption is brief, it will almost certainly make energy more expensive worldwide…
Politico: President Donald Trump in a Sunday video posted to social media warned there will likely be more U.S. troops killed and wounded as part of the continued operation against Iran after three servicemembers were killed in the massive initial strikes…
Washington Post: Iran intensified its retaliatory strikes against American allies in the Persian Gulf and Israel on Sunday, attacking sites in at least nine countries since the start of the joint U.S.-Israeli attack.
Within 36 hours, the regime had hit every member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a group of Arab states close to the U.S., including at multiple international airports and at least three active ports, crippling international travel and disrupting oil shipments. The strikes also tore through residential towers, luxury hotels and roads…
Wall Street Journal: Iran’s expectation was that, by squeezing oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and disrupting air traffic, it would cause unbearable pain to the Gulf nations that depend so much on expatriate workers, tourism and overseas trade.
So far, this calculus seems to have backfired. Gulf states, rattled by volleys of Iranian drones and missiles targeting their hotels, ports and airports, are concluding the Iranian peril must be confronted. Rather than seeking an offramp, the prevailing mood in the Gulf—at least for now—is that the Iranian regime can’t be allowed to get away with this unprecedented onslaught on its neighbors…
CNN: For months, Israeli and American intelligence agencies — including the CIA — had been secretly watching Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for just the right moment.
They were monitoring for his daily patterns — where he lived, whom he met with, how he communicated and where he might retreat under threat of attack, five people familiar with the matter told CNN. They were keeping tabs, too, on Iran’s senior political and military leaders, who rarely gathered in the same place with the ayatollah, the country’s supreme leader for nearly four decades…
Wall Street Journal: The U.S. and Israel have killed a large number of Iran’s top leaders in the military campaign that began Saturday, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Here’s a look at the Iranian leaders who have died in the assault, and those who have survived…
Washington Post: Trump has taken an approach to selling U.S. citizens on military action in Iran that contrasts with his predecessors, seeking to avoid completely owning it…
Politico: The Trump administration is making the case that it ordered expansive, deadly strikes to stop an imminent threat from Tehran, but is providing no evidence Iran had such plans…
Wall Street Journal: The operation in Iran marked a sharp reversal for a president whose political rise was fueled in part by American fatigue with regime change…
Bloomberg: President Donald Trump has long said the US is done with nation-building. Now, he’s embraced a form of intervention that hearkens back to an earlier American era: openly targeting adversaries’ leaders for death or arrest while offering few details about how the US intends to manage the aftermath…
New York Times: Experts say that Iran’s clerical rulers may be too deeply entrenched for Iranians to topple them, and that the U.S. and Israeli strikes risk setting off deeper radicalization or violence…
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