Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he knew all about Israel’s plan ahead of time, that he wasn’t given a mere “heads-up.”

Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

Iran's top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that Israel's strikes on his country were undermining nuclear talks with the United States. Araghchi, in a call with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,

Steve Bannon, former chief strategist for Donald Trump, warned on Friday that Israel is trying to draw the United States into a direct military conflict with Iran following a wave of missile strikes and retaliatory attacks.

National security experts warn that Israel's attack on Iran shows why Chinese land and asset purchases in the U.S. pose a significant threat to American security.

The president who promised to easily and quickly bring about peace has now found himself accounting for yet another major escalation. President Donald Trump had publicly discouraged Israel from striking Iran in recent days,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday vowed intensified strikes on Iran, declaring that "what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days",

Iranian officials have repeatedly denied seeking a nuclear weapon. The United States and Iran have held five rounds of negotiations toward achieving an agreement that would limit Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, with a sixth round of talks scheduled for Sunday.

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the war in Gaza and aid access, after the United States vetoed a similar effort in the Security Council last week.