Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei orders a response 'without geographical limitations' if Trump strikes again after the midterms
Donald Trump, JD Vance and Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in July. Trump has denied that a letter Vance sent to Iran's top security official was intended to revive peace negotiations, insisting it concerned…Iran's Revolutionary Guard says four tankers have caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz, in a picture posted on X by Al Jazeera English.
Iranian hardliner Mahmoud Nabavian, a senior Tehran MP, renewed demands for an atomic bomb hours after Khamenei's order, arguing Iran must "respond at the same level at which the enemy attacks." The directive orders the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to update target lists to bring all US and Israeli "physical and non-physical" assets within range — a dramatic widening of Iran's stated war aims.
Qatar mediators spent 12 hours in Tehran on Friday trying to broker a deal, with a draft framework proposing Iran ship its enriched uranium stockpile to a third country.