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."
China’s Ministry of Transportation summoned executives from major shipping companies Tuesday amid growing concerns about disruptions to global trade routes caused by the Iran war.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Tuesday that Russia "should not be involved" in the ongoing conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran, even as intelligence reports indicate Moscow may already be doing exactly that.
