Iran, China and Trump
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Trump threatens China with ‘big problems’ if they arm Iranian regime with air defense systems
President Trump threatened “big problems” for China Saturday if they deliver air defense systems to Tehran while the US is locked in a war with Iran. “If China does that, China is gonna have big problems,
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Furious Iran launches missile barrage just hours after Trump claimed peace in knife-edge ceasefire
The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday that its air defenses were firing at a barrage of Iranian missiles, just hours after Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire
The Israeli military said it had identified missiles launched from Iran toward Israeli territory, with air-defense systems activated to intercept the threat. Israel’s Home Front Command issued precautionary alerts to mobile phones in affected areas,
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed that Iran could have hit Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities through proxies in Venezuela had the Trump administration not intervened.
President Donald Trump is seeking the biggest defense budget increase in decades, though it remains to be seen if the infusion will be enough to meet the needs of a military-industrial complex engaged in geopolitical conflicts across the globe.
A Pentagon probe has found that outdated U.S. targeting data caused an American Tomahawk missile to destroy an Iranian elementary school in the opening hours of President Donald Trump ’s war against Iran. The findings stand in stark contrast to Trump’s efforts to blame Tehran, “or somebody else,” for the deadly attack.
The Trump administration bombed a school with an “untested” missile on the same day as a strike that killed 175 at another school, according to a report. A new Precision Strike Missile, which has never been tested in combat and only made it out of the prototype phase last year,
Iran’s missile arsenal remains a subject of intense debate as conflicting narratives emerge. While Washington claims significant damage to Tehran’s capabilities, intelligence assessments suggest much of Iran’s arsenal remains intact,
Maya Gebeily, Reuters’ bureau chief for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, tells CNN’s Becky Anderson that Lebanon had expected to be included in the ceasefire, but confusion over its exclusion is now fueling fresh tensions on the ground.