Stay up to date with the latest news Sunday about the US and Israel’s war with Iran, as President Trump spoke with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer a day after lashing out at him for not joining the US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
“The leaders began by discussing the latest situation in the Middle East and the military cooperation between the UK and US through the use of RAF bases in support of the collective self-defence of partners in the region,” the PM’s office said in a statement.
Trump blasted Starmer on Truth Social Saturday for “finally giving serious thought about sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,”
Meanwhile, the president is underwater with voters on foreign policy, with a 43% to 54% disapproval rating, while his dealings with Iran are 41% to 54%, a new survey found.
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Senator Lindsey Graham hinted at President Trump’s next target after Iran, flashing a “Free Cuba” hat on live TV. Graham suggested that the “liberation of Cuba is upon us,” and that Trump is “resetting the world.” The US has been enforcing an oil quarantine around Venezuela, which had been supplying Cuba with oil. President Trump spoke with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday after lashing out at him a day earlier for initially keeping his powder dry about joining the joint US and Israeli strikes on Iran. “The leaders began by discussing the latest situation in the Middle East and the military cooperation between the UK and US through the use of RAF bases in support of the collective self-defence of partners in the region,” the British PM's office said in a statement. Starmer faced backlash at home, including from former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Boris Johnson, for being slow to offer to join the US military campaign in Iran. Last week, Starmer told members of the British Parliament that he wasn't ready "to join a war unless I was satisfied there was a lawful basis and a viable, thought-through plan.” Trump had bashed the United Kingdom on Saturday over its hesitation over Iran. "The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East," Trump chided on Truth Social. "That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember." "We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!"Graham teases that freeing Cuba is next for Trump admin as he boasts about progress in Iran: 'Stay tuned'
By Ryan King 
Trump speaks with Starmer after knocking 'once great ally' for waiting on Iran
By Ryan King 
Gas prices will dip below $3 a gallon "again before too long," Energy Secretary Chris Wright promised Sunday -- as he denied the US was targeting energy infrastructure in Iran.
Wright touted that gas prices are "still $1.50 a gallon cheaper" than they were during the middle of the Biden administration and predicted that the recent uptick due to the military campaign in Iran is a weekslong phenomenon, "not a months' thing."
"The Trump administration has been all in on lowering energy prices, and I would say quite successfully," Wright told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "We have seen a dramatic decline in gasoline prices, in diesel prices. Soon, you will see it in electricity prices as well."
"We want it [gas prices] back below $3 a gallon. And it will be again before too long."
War is the use of arms to settle differences — tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material — between organized groups.
The general laws of armed conflict stay immutable, given the constancy of human nature.
However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid.
New weapons, tactics and strategies elicit counterresponses in an endless cycle of tensions between defensive and offensive superiority.
That said, has President Donald Trump introduced a novel way of waging Western war against America’s foreign enemies?
A majority of Americans oppose President Trump’s migrant raids — as well as the early US strikes against Iran — while supporting the White House on issues such as sanctuary cities, according to a new poll.
On ICE’s immigration tactics, 54% of registered voters told an NBC survey that they oppose them, compared to 44% who came out in support.
The president is also underwater on other key issues, such as foreign policy, with a 43% approval to 54% disapproval rating, and dealing with Iran, 41% to 54%, showed the poll, which sampled 1,000 registered voters between Feb. 27 and March 3, two days after the US launched its missile blitz against Iran.
President Trump attributed a deadly elementary school strike to Iran, despite reports suggesting US involvement. The Shajarah Tayyebeh Girls’ School, near an IRGC compound, was hit, leading to over 180 claimed deaths. US officials deny targeting civilians, while investigations continue amid limited information from Iran.
Bahrain accused Iran of striking a desalination plant, escalating fears of civilian infrastructure becoming targets in the nine-day-old war. Iran’s president vowed to expand attacks on American targets amid intense US and Israeli airstrikes, which have already killed over 1,500 people regionally.
Tehran was blanketed by thick black clouds following Israeli strikes on the capital’s oil facilities late Saturday — in what appears to be the first attack on Iran’s energy infrastructure since “Operation Epic Fury” began a week ago.
Iranians awoke to black rain water — saturated with oil — leaving rooftops and streets covered in the murky liquid.
Eerie photos show Tehran shrouded in smoke and covered in black clouds hours after the Israeli military pummeled several fuel sites.
Iran refused to make concessions on issues regarding its nuclear stockpile that the US didn't achieve during the 12-day war last year, special envoy Steve Witkoff revealed.
"They bragged about having 60% enriched fuel — enough for 11 bombs. They told me and Jared [Kusher], 'We're not going to give you diplomatically what you couldn't take militarily,'" Witkoff told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday.
"So I think they're going to need a change of attitude."
It was only a week ago when the prospect of America and Israel teaming up to attack a heavily armed Iran seemed necessary but also very risky.
Yet following the largest and most rapid bombardment in the modern era, the decision already looks not only right, but also righteous.
The mighty alliance is showcasing a stunning variety of sophisticated and overwhelming firepower in the pursuit of a moral cause against a government so malevolent it is incurable.
The gathering and sharing of key intelligence and the extensive planning and coordination regarding targets represent a remarkable testament to how close the two nations have become, especially under President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Iran’s president has threatened to step up attacks on American targets throughout the Middle East as the US and Israel press ahead with their air campaign.
“When we are attacked, we have no choice but to respond. The more pressure they impose on us, the stronger our response will naturally be,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said in video comments Sunday. “Our Iran, our country, will not bow easily in the face of bullying, oppression or aggression — and it never has.”
Pezeshkian appeared to be backtracking from conciliatory comments toward his Gulf neighbors on Saturday.
Those comments, in which he appeared to apologize for attacks on their soil, were quickly contradicted by Iranian hard-liners.
Pezeshkian said Iran is not looking for a battle against neighboring Arab countries, many of which host American military bases. “They are our brothers,” he said, accusing the U.S. of trying to pit the region’s countries against one another. Many Iranian attacks have gone beyond U.S. bases in the region, striking energy facilities, hotels and cities.
The clerical body that will choose Iran's next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday.
The Mehr news agency quoted him as saying "some obstacles" still needed to be resolved regarding the process.
On Saturday, a senior cleric in the Assembly of Experts said its members would meet "within one day" to choose the leader.
Iranian media said the group had a minor disagreement over whether their final decision must follow an in-person meeting or instead be issued without adhering to this formality.
Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, another member of the Assembly of Experts, said in a video released by Nournews on Sunday that an in-person meeting by the assembly for a final vote was not possible under current conditions.
He said a candidate had been picked, based on the late supreme leader's advice that Iran's top leader should "be hated by the enemy" instead of praised by it.
"Even the Great Satan (US) has mentioned his name," Heidari Alekasir said of the chosen successor, days after US President Donald Trump said that Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, was an "unacceptable" choice for him.
