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U.S. Weighs Military Strikes as Israel and Iran Intensify Aerial Assaults

Global powers press for de-escalation following warnings of irreparable harm from Tehran’s supreme leader

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Director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that neither US nor Israel can “continue to sit and intercept missiles all day.”
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Overview

  • President Trump told advisers he is considering direct U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying “I may do it. I may not do it” after an emergency National Security Council meeting
  • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected demands for Iran’s surrender and warned any American intervention would inflict “irreparable damage” on U.S. forces
  • Israeli jets have conducted six days of Operation Rising Lion, targeting nuclear and military sites around Tehran and claiming to destroy key centrifuge production facilities
  • Iran has launched over 400 missiles and hundreds of drones at Israeli territory, causing at least 24 deaths and prompting widespread shelter orders in Tel Aviv
  • The U.S. has deployed additional warplanes and the USS Nimitz to the Middle East as Russia and Turkey offer to mediate a possible ceasefire