"…The resolution comes against a backdrop of escalating missile strikes between Israel and Iran over the last five days, beginning with Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military facilities ahead of scheduled negotiations between the U.S. and Iranian leadership."

"…Experts say that Israel launched its war on Iran having been emboldened by the laissez-faire attitude of the Biden and Trump administrations, which allowed unlimited escalations of the Gaza war — killing tens of thousands of civilians — without accountability or consequence."

"…This is unlikely to end well."

"…Trump’s actions are “an absolute betrayal of everything he ran and campaigned on” is difficult to square with the record."

"…These developments are welcome steps for building an anti-war coalition."

"…The conversation grew increasingly heated from there as Carlson launched stumper after stumper made up of basic facts."

"…Lawmakers are hoping to pass legislation that limits President Donald Trump’s authority to bring the United States into war with Iran."

"…Trump has dismissed his own administration’s intelligence reports, saying that, in his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear weapon."

"…The sway that Fox News producers have over President Trump’s thinking, as he weighs matters of war and peace, is jarring, if not entirely unsurprising."

"…The gap between Israel’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear program and that of the U.S. helps explain why the two allies haven’t been aligned in recent days on dealing with Tehran."

"…The aftermath of a coup, assassination, military decimation, or whatever method brings down the Iranian regime is likely to resemble post-Saddam Iraq—chaos, instability, and civil war, possibly infecting the entire region."

"…Trump is now managing three U.S.-mediated conflicts: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Hamas, Israel-Iran."

"…The fact that Trump is even mulling the question of direct intervention spits in the face of the antiwar sentiment that supposedly functions as a pillar of Trump’s political movement, and betrays a basic misunderstanding about what exactly Americans wary of 'forever wars' hope to avoid."

"…Israel has created the circumstances which allow Donald Trump a risk-free “win” of immense magnitude."

"…In any case, I think there’s a pretty good chance the whole ‘we were secretly working together to lull Tehran into complacency’ is a complete fiction, an online MAGA speculation that the White House and Trump glommed onto and made real because it was convenient and helpful."

"…Putin said he had been in touch with Trump and with Netanyahu, and that he had conveyed Moscow’s ideas on resolving the conflict while ensuring Iran’s continued access to civil nuclear energy."

"…The aim of the talks between Iran and the Europeans, which the German source said are taking place in coordination with the United States, is to persuade the Iranian side to firmly guarantee that it will use its nuclear program solely for civilian purposes."

"…The GBU-57/B is designed to enhance this ability to pierce deep below the surface."

"…The Iranian regime has clearly been weakened by sanctions and the damage dealt to its regional proxy network over the past year."

"…Yet what’s become clear is that, unlike many of the America Firsters, Trump doesn’t truly want to withdraw from the world or stay out of foreign entanglements."

"…An attack against Fordow could have costly repercussions for the U.S., as it could leave Iran feeling obligated to hit back in some fashion."

"…The U.S. may now be hours or days from pursuing yet another war."

"…Trump’s dismissal of the intelligence community on Tuesday suggests Gabbard, for now, has been sidelined as Israel pressures him to directly enter its war against Iran."

"…The conflict began last Friday with a surprise wave of Israeli airstrikes targeting military sites, senior officers and nuclear scientists."

"…At least 240 people were wounded by the Iranian missiles, four of them seriously, according to Israel’s Health Ministry."

"…The prospect of direct U.S. involvement has added to fears of a wider war in the Middle East."

"…The Israeli strike really has put the United States in a difficult position, in the sense that the United States has the only capacity to at least potentially eliminate Fordow, the underground enrichment site."

"…The streets of Tehran are empty, businesses closed, communications patchy at best."

"…Trump’s increasingly muscular comments toward the Iranian government come after he urged Tehran’s 9.5 million residents to flee for their lives as he cut short his participation in an international summit earlier this week to return to Washington for urgent talks with his national security team."

"…Hegseth’s testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee comes as Middle East tensions are high after Israel bombed Iran nearly a week ago while discussions about Tehran’s nuclear capabilities were presumably ongoing."

"…Hegseth has spent vast amounts of time during his first months in office promoting the social changes he’s making at the Pentagon."

"…Khamenei dismissed the “threatening and absurd statements” by Trump."

"…The challenge he now faces is whether the worst outcome would be to leave an Iran that has been damaged, humiliated, but still has the capability of reconstituting its nuclear program."

"…The latest break over Iran was striking because Trump has staffed his second administration with loyalists rather than establishment figures."

"…Trump’s increasingly muscular comments toward the Iranian government come after he urged Tehran’s 9.5 million residents to flee for their lives as he cut short his visit to an international summit to return to Washington for urgent talks with his national security team."

"…Trump's shift in tone comes as the U.S. has repositioned warships and military aircraft in the region to respond if the conflict between Israel and Iran further escalates."

"…The sudden departure only heightened the drama of a world that seems on the verge of several firestorms."

"…Trump’s saber-rattling has created rifts within the MAGA coalition, as my colleagues Jonathan Lemire and Isaac Stanley-Becker reported yesterday."

"…Trump’s recent support for Israel’s escalating attacks on Iran—and his intimations that the United States may become directly involved in the conflict—suggests that he is well on the way to betraying his anti-war mandate."

"…The regime change in Iran may turn out to be a very, very bloody business, and a very protracted business that doesn’t end soon."

"…The MAGA movement usually displays remarkable unity in attacking the left."

"…Times Video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world."

"…Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks while trying to reach aid distribution points in Gaza, which is suffering from famine-like conditions, according to UN agencies operating in the territory."

"…Israel’s defence minister has said he ordered increased attacks on government targets in Iran to “undermine the regime”, while an Iranian missile evaded Israeli air defences to hit a hospital in the country’s south."

"…The comments from Israel Katz were the first time that regime change had officially been claimed as a goal of the seven-day-old war."

"…In the meantime, it has lost all credibility as an honest broker with Iran."

"…Trump says he remains undecided about the US getting directly involved, which if sanctioned would be a sharp departure from his usual caution about foreign entanglements."

"…There are many developments ahead, even in the near term, developments are expected on tariffs."

"…The prospect of the US joining Israel’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear program risks splitting Donald Trump’s support base asunder, amid sharp divisions on military intervention between the president’s most avid America-first acolytes and traditional Republican foreign policy hawks."

"…The prospect of imminent US involvement in an Israeli bombing campaign, which is suggested to be in pursuit of regime change, has laid bare deep divides in Iran’s population, even among the opposition."

"…The current crisis makes that look a more hopeless cause than ever – but is the clearest evidence of why it is needed in place of a nuclear race which can have no winners."

"…The Kremlin stands to lose from a prolonged US-backed Israeli military campaign that devastates Iran’s economic and military infrastructure and threatens the survival of the regime in Tehran."

"…A majority of supporters of Donald Trump are against US military involvement in Israel’s conflict with Iran, a poll published Wednesday found, reflecting a growing Republican backlash to the president’s threats to utilize American firepower."

"…Israel is now counting on Trump to stake a direct claim to glory and join the operation, now that the risks of failure and downed planes have been minimised."

"…The US is sleepwalking into another Middle East quagmire, an open-ended war with unclear goals, loose talk of regime change and the potential for a regional conflagration if Iran attacks US military installations in the Persian Gulf."

"…Iran’s supreme leader rejected US calls for surrender and warned that joining the war would lead to “irreparable damage”."

"…Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” from Tehran and weighed his military options."

"…Trump’s appetite for diplomacy appeared to be waning."

"…Fear of provoking the tyrant keeps democratic leaders from telling the unvarnished truth about his regime."

"…What the attacks have achieved is to stir up fear among the Iranian leadership and anger among Iran’s population."

"…Donald Trump boosted speculation over whether the US could become involved in Israel’s conflict with Tehran on Tuesday, warning Iran’s supreme leader that he was “an easy target” and that America’s “patience is wearing thin”."

"…The scale of destruction and the threats from the IDF and Trump triggered an exodus of Tehranis, jamming the roads out of the capital overnight."

"…Deliberations over the intelligence regarding Iran’s breakout time to a nuclear weapon will be pored over if the US moves forward with a strike that initiates a new foreign conflict for the US that could potentially reshape the Middle East and redefine a Trump presidency that was supposed to end the US era of “forever wars”."

"…An unlikely coalition of lawmakers has moved to prevent the president from involving US forces in the conflict without Congress’s approval."

"…The US has stepped up its military presence in the Middle East since the weekend but has left certain details vague to preserve operational ambiguity for Donald Trump as he considers whether the US will intervene in the Israel-Iran war."

"…Trump faces a tough choice."

"…What is clear is that Israel sees regime destruction as an end in its own right, with no interest in Iran’s future beyond weakening and destabilising a regional rival."

"…It looks once again as though Europe has been left as the bystander to history, adept at drafting consensual communiques and declarations while the decisions are made by unilateralists prepared to use destructive force."

"…The strikes have killed at least 224 people in Iran."

"…Trump’s increasingly muscular comments toward the Iranian government come after he urged Tehran’s 9.5 million residents to flee for their lives as he cut short his participation in an international summit to return to Washington for urgent talks with his national security team."

"…The cowardly Iranian dictator sits in the depths of the fortified bunker and fires aimed shots at hospitals and residential buildings in Israel."

"…The strikes on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility were particularly effective, knocking out the electricity to the underground area."

"…The stakes for America are high."

"…Netanyahu has upended the balance of power between Israel and Iran, its most threatening regional adversary, and remade the Middle East in just 20 months."

"…The problem, for both Iran and the Palestinian cause, is that the rest of the Middle East had already come to the same conclusion."

"…The world, Zakharova warned, is “millimeters” away from catastrophe."

"…Israel has taken on the eerie quiet of a ghost town."

"…Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a grave warning to the U.S. on Wednesday, telling the country it would suffer “irreparable damage” if it engages in military action against Iran amid its conflict with Israel."

"…Trump made his desire clear: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” he posted on Truth Social after a series of posts in which he hailed American military superiority."

"…Trump is testing the limits of his MAGA base's support as he threatens Iran while navigating a complex political landscape."

"…Israeli attacks on Iran’s facilities risk ‘nuclear contamination’."

"…Israel’s defence minister threatened to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after Iranian missile strikes across Israel."

"…The conflict is also costing both nations billions of dollars and could choke their economic growth and trigger concerns over long-term fiscal planning."

"…An Iranian missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel, wounding people and causing “extensive damage,” according to the medical facility."

"…The attacks were carried out as the two countries traded fire for a seventh day after Israel launched a major attack on Friday on Iranian military facilities and nuclear sites, killing senior military officials and top nuclear scientists."

"…Iran has launched another missile attack against Israel, causing extensive damage across the country and striking Israel’s primary hospital in the south."

"…The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant is considered a much more difficult target than Natanz because it is located inside a mountain."

"…Putin has continued to push for a peaceful resolution that would need to ensure Iran’s “peaceful nuclear activities” and the “interests of Israel from the point of view of the unconditional security of the Jewish state”."

"…The military conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies, with the US considering support for Israel's campaign against Iran, raising concerns about potential regime change."

"…The United States is the only country to possess these bombs, which it delivers using B-2 bombers."

"…The ambiguity over whether the US may enter the fray has fed uncertainty within the conflict — and led to controversy on the domestic front for Trump."

"…He urged restraint and diplomacy, and warned against any ‘additional military interventions.”"

"…President Trump and Iran’s Supreme Leader have traded threats over US military involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict, as Iran rejects Trump’s call for ‘unconditional surrender’."

"…Now, the prime minister leads a public and parliament that, apart from a few notable exceptions, appears united behind his leadership and its new attacks upon an old enemy, Iran."

"…The ongoing conflict has resulted in significant casualties, with at least 240 people, including 70 women and children, reported killed since Israel began attacking Iran."

"…While we do not know exactly how some Iranian missiles made it past Israeli air defence systems, there are a few possible ways Iranian drones and missiles managed to avoid interception."

"…Iran insists that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and for civilian purposes."

"…Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rejected President Trump’s call for surrender in the conflict with Israel, and warned any US strikes on Iran will have “irreparable consequences”."

"…Israeli attacks across Iran have killed at least 240 people since Friday while Iranian attacks have killed at least 24 people in Israel."

"…Iran has warned that any intervention by the United States in its conflict with Israel would risk an “all-out war”, as the regional rivals traded missile fire for a sixth day."

"…any American intervention in the conflict with Israel “would be a recipe for an all-out war”."

"…For more than 30 years, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling the world that Iran was on the brink of creating a nuclear weapon."

"…What began as a calculated strike on military targets may be achieving the opposite of its intended outcome."

"…For Netanyahu, the message has scarcely changed in decades — a warning that appears to transcend shifting intelligence assessments and diplomatic developments."

"…Iran has warned that any United States intervention in the conflict with Israel would risk an “all-out war” as the two sides traded attacks for a sixth straight day."

"…Trump is more likely to join the fight than stop it."

"…Zelenskyy warned that “diplomacy is now in a state of crisis” as the summit ended without a joint statement in support of Ukraine."

"…Trump’s ambiguous statements have fuelled debate among analysts about the true extent of US involvement and intentions in the Israel-Iran conflict."

"…Israel says its latest attacks have targeted weapons facilities and nuclear centrifuge production plants."

"…The deepening conflict is sparking fears in Islamabad, say analysts, rooted in its complex ties with Tehran and the even greater unease at the prospect of the Israeli military’s aerial influence extending close to the Pakistani border."

"…The possibility of escalation – including direct US involvement in Israel’s military offensive – has put markets on edge."

"…The barrage has triggered panic in a society long shaped by conflict – but where, until now, the destruction and wars were inflicted elsewhere – in Gaza, Jenin or southern Lebanon."

"…Fears are growing over the global economic fallout as attacks escalate between Iran and Israel."

"…Several explosions rocked areas across Iran, including its central and western provinces as well as the densely populated capital, Tehran, as Israel stepped up bombardment."

"…Trump's comments raise questions about the sources he is relying on for information."

"…The Israel-Iran conflict is bringing more instability to the Middle East, a region with extensive United States interests."

"…Video of an Iranian attack on and near Israeli intelligence buildings near Tel Aviv has been circulating online, despite restrictions by the Israeli military censor."

"…Analysts believe Iran’s nuclear capabilities are far from destroyed."

"…The strikes have killed at least 224 people since Friday."

"…Israel’s air strike on Iran’s state TV headquarters comes as part of a wider policy to mute journalists, media outlets and sources of information covering its wars across the Middle East."

"…The heavy traffic congestion is already common in Tehran, especially during rush hour or public holidays, but many of the roads on Tuesday were at a standstill with traffic jams throughout the city as residents attempted to evacuate."

"…Iran is increasingly too weak to strike back meaningfully, as it watches its decades-old red lines vanish fast from view."

"…Though she’s been among the most visible voices for the president’s national security policy, behind the scenes Gabbard has struggled to carve out her own place in the Trump White House."

"…The question of the administration’s contingency planning is also coming into focus."

"…As President Donald Trump weighs whether to join Israel’s strikes on Iran — including using bunker-busting bombs to target nuclear facilities deep underground — a discussion is underway among his top officials over how the US can strike those targets without becoming embroiled in a full-scale war, sources familiar with the matter said."

"…His time in office so far has not, at least not yet, been the era of peace."

"…Trump spent nearly an hour inspecting and commenting on the flagpole’s installation, despite heightened international tensions awaiting him."

"…A US strike on Iran would open up a “Pandora’s box” and “most likely consume the rest of President Trump’s presidency.”"

"…The moment it became clear that he’d change the hawkish Republican Party forever occurred when he slammed primary rival Jeb Bush in a 2016 debate over his brother’s wars."

"…The call reflects how Trump, who has embraced a more isolationist approach than many of his GOP predecessors, is navigating competing forces within his own party as he contemplates whether to order the US military to strike Iranian nuclear sites."

"…The sum total of the data suggest that, while Americans are concerned about the prospect of Iran getting a nuclear weapon, they don’t necessarily view it as an immediate problem necessitating the use of the US military."

"…The ever-shifting commentary from the president also means even our adversaries and allies might not know precisely how to deal with and placate him."

"…The depletion of its arsenal may compound Iran’s desire to negotiate its way out of the conflict and also intensify the ferocity of the Israeli campaign in the coming days, analysts have said, as Israeli airpower finds itself almost unchallenged and Iran’s nightly assaults on Israeli cities seem recently to have ebbed."