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Trump floats ENDING war in Iran after mysterious call with Putin
Donald Trump suggested his war with Iran could soon come to an end just hours after completing a mysterious phone call with Vladimir Putin.
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Donald Trump suggested his war with Iran could soon come to an end just hours after completing a mysterious phone call with Vladimir Putin.
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'It's an absolutely apocalyptic scene here,' Senior International Correspondent Fred Pleitgen told CNN News Central's Kate Bolduan from Tehran, as fires raged around him.
President Trump told CBS News in the afternoon that “we’re very far ahead of schedule” on the war, and stocks rose after an early plummet. He later told Republican lawmakers that the U.S. still had more to do.
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Current time inTehran11:11 p.m. March 9LiveUpdated March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
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Download our app Mojtaba Khamenei has been appointed as Iran's new Supreme Leader, following the assassination of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by an Israeli airstrike. Hours after his appointment, Mojtaba Khamenei signed a message on a missile aimed at Israel, which was then posted on state media.
The veteran GOP senator appears to suggest that the war on Iran was launched to gain control over its oil supplies.
Appeasing the White House at all costs indulges little but a sentimental notion of a US-Australia relationship that no longer existsAs the on Iran spreads its treacherous dangers virus-like across the globe, Australia, despite its limp rhetoric of non-involvement, risks increasing ensnarement in a hyper-macho Trump folly with no apparent endgame.Call it US-Australia Alliance management. Call it an obsequious maintenance at all costs of the reckless submarine security pact. Or call it what it more closely resembles – appeasement of a belligerent US administration hell-bent on reiterating its global domination at any cost. Regardless, Australia’s passive refusal to challenge the US and Israel on everything from the illegality of the murderous bombing of Iran to the war’s opaque objectives, draws us closer to the danger daily.
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Instead of securing an early ceasefire, Iran has prolonged the conflict by attacking its Gulf neighbours
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Mojtaba Khamenei’s supporters take to streets of Tehran on the same day Iran attacks targets in Israel and Gulf statesUS and Israeli warplanes launched new waves of strikes on targets across Iran on Monday, as large crowds took to the streets in Tehran in a defiant show of support for .The conflict, now in its second week, continued to escalate, with fresh Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, US bases across the Middle East and energy infrastructure in the Gulf.
Turkey, Qatar and UAE intercept missiles from Iran; Israeli military announces strikes against infrastructure across Iran and a Hezbollah-linked groupDonald Trump has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu, the .It said Trump also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed if he and Netanyahu had not been around. The US president said:Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.
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THE US-Israeli assault on Iran has sparked a regional conflict which has plunged the Middle East into chaos. The widening war has engulfed the entire region and has global consequences. Israel has also launched attacks in Lebanon. Washington’s war of choice has exposed Gulf states to retaliatory attacks by Iran, which have inflicted widespread damage. If President Donald Trump thought military action against Iran would be a quick win leading to regime collapse that hasn’t happened — as if governments can be toppled from the air. His administration certainly did not expect Iran’s fierce response and its painful blows to GCC countries.
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Mojtaba Khamenei, excluded from a list of three senior clerics his father reportedly identified last year, was on Sunday announced as the Ayatollah's successor.
This liveblog is closed. Follow the latest coverage on The Israeli military said it launched a wave of strikes “across Iran” on Sunday, targeting military sites.A military statement said it had “initiated a wave of strikes targeting the Iranian terror regime military infrastructure across Iran”.
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Kowtowing to US foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan had disastrous consequences. Why are leaders making the same mistake all over again?Here is the sort of analysis you’re being served up by our esteemed commentariat. Keir Starmer’s positioning on the Iran war, we are told, reveals a prime minister with no political compass. True, but talk about burying the lede. The story here is not Starmer’s lack of political acumen. is not a policy question on which reasonable people might disagree, like raising a tax here or spending a bit more money there. This is a grave crime.Yet all the pressure on Starmer seems to arrive from one direction. He “should have backed America from the very beginning”, declares Tony Blair, apparently eager for a successor to emulate his own record of dragging Britain into US-led catastrophes . Donald Trump’s Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the make much the same complaint.Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist
By bus, taxi and even private jet, worried Brits are still joining the exodus from Dubai and other Middle Eastern hotspots as the relentless Iranian drone and missile strikes show no sign of abating.
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The IRGC says its forces are ready to 'fully obey and sacrifice for the divine commands' after new supreme leader named.
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The 10th day of the war began with a development that may shape the trajectory of the conflict more than any exchange on the battlefield. Early on Monday, Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader. The transition that happened without any disruption signalled both institutional continuity and a consolidation of authority at a time when Iran remains under sustained military pressure.
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