President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to withdraw U.S. protection of the Strait of Hormuz from European and Asian nations that have refused to support American military operations against Iran, warning that non-cooperative allies could soon find themselves responsible for the waterway's security.
Joe Kent resigned Tuesday as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, saying he could not support the ongoing U.S. war against Iran and blaming the conflict on Israeli pressure.
The Israeli military announced Tuesday that a targeted overnight strike killed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and the man the Israel Defense Forces described as Iran's "effective" leader since the war began.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Sunday that President Trump is keeping oil infrastructure strikes on the table against Iran, including facilities on Kharg Island that handle roughly 90 percent of the country's crude oil exports.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded and "likely disfigured" as the United States and Israel continue military operations against the Islamic Republic.
Iranian hackers are suspected of breaching Stryker Corporation, a $20 billion Michigan-based medical device manufacturer, in what security analysts are calling the first major Iranian cyberoffensive against a U.S. company since military tensions between the two nations escalated.
Iran's new Supreme Leader hasn't been seen in public since the start of the strikes from the United States and Israel, leading to Iranians pledging their loyalty to a cardboard cutout of Mojtaba Khamenei.
The U.S. military destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, one day after President Trump warned Tehran that any attempt to mine the critical waterway would draw consequences "at a level never seen before."
