Iran war live updates: Trump says ‘someone from within’ may be best to take power
U.S. President Donald Trump said “someone from within” Iran’s regime might be best suited to take power once the U.S.-Israeli war ends.
His remarks came four days into a war that has killed hundreds, nearly all of them in Iran.
Although Tehran has kept up its retaliatory strikes against Israel and across the Gulf, disrupting travel and driving up oil prices, the pace appears to be slowing.
The conflict has also spread to Lebanon, where Iran-backed Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel, prompting Israeli strikes in Beirut and additional troop deployments to southern Lebanon.
The spiraling nature of the war has raised questions about when and how it would end, and the Trump administration has given various objectives.
What to know:
- Countries scramble to bring citizens home: Tens of thousands of people, from Romanian pilgrims to tourists and diplomats’ families, remain stranded across the Middle East. Much of the Gulf airspace is closed and major airlines have canceled flights. Some who managed to evacuate described fear and relief.
- Trump meets with German Chancellor Merz: The U.S. president held a long-scheduled meeting with Merz in the Oval Office, his first in-person engagement with a foreign leader since the war began. It came as Trump finds himself under pressure to explain his objectives and endgame for the conflict with allies at home and abroad.
- UN watchdog says no radiological consequence expected from Iranian nuclear site damage: The International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment site sustained “some recent damage” amid a U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign, though there was “no radiological consequence expected” from it. Natanz earlier came under attack by the U.S. in the 12-day Iran-Israel war in June.
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