History of US regime-changing actions is rocky
Sandinista soldiers walk amid the debris after shooting down a supply plane of the U.S.-backed rebels in Loma El Arenal, Nicaragua, on Jan. 24, 1988. (AP Photo/Mario Tapia, File)
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian top officials vowed Sunday to avenge their slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and declared a new wave of strikes on US bases in the Gulf, defying US President Donald Trump's threat of an unprecedented escalation in force.
· Agence France-Presse
Trump’s current war on Iran picks up where a longstanding enmity left off
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· Roberttait
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Trump bit off more than he can chew with Iran – ex-Pentagon analyst
The US-Israeli strikes on Iran are unlikely to trigger regime change and risk escalating into a wider geopolitical confrontation, former Pentagon security policy analyst Michael Maloof has told RT.
· RT
US-Iran war live updates: Trump warns of further strikes with a ‘force never seen before’ after death of Khamanei; relataliatory strikes hit nations across the Middle East
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· Josefine Ganko
‘Thank you, Trump’: The Iranians who hope war will topple the regime
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· David Crowe
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· Associated Press
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· Mohamad Bazzi
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· Sanam Vakil
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· The Manila Times
Despite antiwar MAGA wing, Trump gets Republican support for Iran strikes
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· Ali Harb
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· Richard Wood
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President Trump warned Iran against any further retaliatory strikes after the decimated Iranian regime announced attacks on US bases Sunday morning.
· Nicholas McEntyre
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Trump warns Iran against retaliation, threatens unprecedented force
Trump, on his Truth Social platform, warned Iran against retaliating, saying the United States would respond with unprecedented force if it did.
· Middleeasteye
Trump advierte a Irán que no intensifique los ataques, dice que EEUU respondería con fuerza
DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, advirtió el domingo a Irán que no incremente sus ataques, y escribió en una publicación en internet que Estados Unidos respondería “¡CON UNA FUERZA QUE NUNCA SE HA VISTO ANTES!”.
Trump warns Iran not to escalate attacks, saying US will strike back
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran fired missiles at targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states Sunday after vowing massive retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten Tehran against further escalation.
· Jon Gambrell
Questions cloud Trump's case for war against Iran
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump made his case for war against Iran early on Saturday as US and Israeli forces bombed the Islamic republic, saying conflict was required to eliminate "imminent threats" from Tehran.
· Agence France-Presse
Trump killed Iran’s leader. It’s doubtful he has ideas beyond that
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· Rodger Shanahan
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· David A Lieb
US Senate candidates in Texas make last pitches ahead of Tuesday primary
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Trump says diplomatic agreement with Iran will be ‘easy ‘ now after Supreme Leader Khamenei’s death
President Trump said that he believes he can easily reach a diplomatic solution with Iran after killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in strikes on Saturday.
· Michael Zennie
Supreme leader killed as US and Israel wage war on Iran: what we know so far on day two
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death confirmed by state media in Iran as Trump urges citizens to ‘take back’ their country
· Guardian staff
Trump: US now better positioned to reach diplomatic solution with Iran
The US president Donald Trump on Sunday said that he believes the US is now better positioned to reach a diplomatic solution with Iran.
· Middleeasteye
Pepperdine beats Washington State 88-79
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Trump news at a glance: president goes to war again
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· Guardian staff
The Supreme Leader is dead. The Iranian regime isn’t - for now, anyway
I was waiting at Starbucks in a Las Vegas hotel when the alert came through: Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, was confirmed dead.
· Michael Koziol
Exaggerated, lacking evidence: Fact-checking Trump’s justifications for attacking Iran
Washington: US President Donald Trump, in announcing a military campaign against Iran, asserted he had done so because of “imminent threats” posed by the regime.
· Linda Qiu
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Raptors take control in second half, hand Wizards 4th straight loss, 134-125
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· Noah Trister
Lee urges N. Korea to resume dialogue, join in shaping 'new future'
President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday urged North Korea to return to the negotiating table with the United States and join efforts to shape what he called a "new future," vowing to actively communicate with Washington and neighboring countries.
· Yonhap
Trump's 'America First' campaign battle cry gives way to military strikes abroad
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump, whose fierce denunciation of military adventurism abroad fueled his unlikely rise to the top of the Republican Party, risks becoming ensnared by that very type of conflict.
· Associated Press
Trump's bet on Iranian regime change could be his biggest gamble yet
In attacking Iran and killing the regime's supreme leader, US President Donald Trump has made an enormous bet: that he can succeed where past presidents have failed by using American military force to reshape the Middle East.
· Daniel Bush
Netanyahu’s war? Analysts say Trump’s Iran strikes benefit Israel, not US
President Donald Trump stood in front of regional leaders during a visit to the Middle East in May and declared a new era of US foreign policy in the region, one that is not guided by trying to reshape it or change its governing systems.
· Ali Harb
What we know so far: Supreme Leader Khamenei killed, as Iran launches retaliatory strikes
President Donald Trump has said Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead, hours after the US and Israel launched a large-scale attack on the country.
· Hafsa Khalil
US strikes on Iran trigger renewed demands for war powers legislation
Lawmakers from the Democratic Party have condemned the US attacks on Iran as a “dangerous” and “unnecessary” escalation, and called on the Senate to immediately vote on legislation that would block the president’s ability to take further military action without congressional approval.
· Al Jazeera Staff
Ayatollah Khamenei's iron grip on power in Iran comes to an end
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed on the first day of massive US and Israeli air strikes on the country, US President Donald Trump has announced.
· Sam Woodhouse
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· Brian Sunday
Iranian State TV Belatedly Confirms Death Of Ayatollah Khamenei
Iranian state TV confirms the Supreme Leader's death... as well as the deaths of his daughter, son-in-law, grandson, and daughter-in-law.
· Tyler Durden