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Escalating Tensions: U.S. and Israel Intensify Military Actions Against Iran

The conflict between Israel and Iran escalates as Trump considers military options, including B-2 bombers, amid ongoing strikes and regional threats.

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Overview

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  • Israel and Iran's military conflict has resulted in over 722 deaths in Iran due to missile and drone attacks.
  • Recent Israeli airstrikes targeted Iranian nuclear facilities, killing three commanders and damaging sites in Isfahan and Tel Aviv.
  • The U.S. is relocating B-2 bombers to Guam, intensifying pressure on Iran as Trump contemplates military options.
  • Iranian-backed Houthi rebels threaten U.S. vessels, indicating a potential for broader regional conflict amid U.S. support for Israel.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasizes the urgency of addressing Iran's nuclear threat, considering options to neutralize its capabilities.
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Center-leaning sources exhibit a mix of caution and urgency regarding U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict. They highlight bipartisan legislative efforts to limit military action, while also emphasizing the escalating nature of the conflict. Implicit biases reflect concerns over potential military escalation and the implications for U.S. foreign policy.

"The coming days threaten to expose horribly the limits of its military power, with a long-distance air campaign suffering diminishing returns and Iran’s regime recovering its poise."

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"The possibility that the U.S. might directly enter the conflict with Israel is causing problems within Trump’s own coalition, as isolationists such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon have spoken out vociferously against U.S. involvement."

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"Speculation about a potential US strike aimed at Iran’s nuclear program has focused on the B-2s, which would be needed to drop 30,000-pound bombs — so-called bunker busters — if Trump decided to target Iran’s heavily fortified uranium enrichment site at Fordow."

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"Today, the Israel-Iran war is the latest test for a party struggling to repair its coalition before next year’s midterm elections and the quick-to-follow kickoff to the 2028 presidential race."

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"The prospect of a wider war threatened, too."

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"Bannon’s extraordinary access to Trump this week to discuss a major foreign policy decision like Iran is notable considering Bannon holds no official role in the military or at the State Department."

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"The war between Israel and Iran erupted on June 13, with Israeli airstrikes targeting nuclear and military sites, top generals and nuclear scientists."

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"As arsenals on both sides deplete, civilians continue to pay a heavy price."

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"The necessary outcome is clear: Iran cannot be left with an enrichment capability, able to produce a nuclear weapon at a time of its choosing."

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"The intensity of the attacks is already triggering population movements in Israel and Iran, with the UN urging states in the region to respect the right of people to seek safety and facilitate humanitarian access."

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"The ongoing fighting comes after talks in Geneva on Friday failed to produce a diplomatic breakthrough."

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"The U.S. evacuated 79 staff and families from the U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies and growing numbers of private American citizens seek information on how to leave Israel and Iran."

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"The U.S. evacuated 79 staff and families from the U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies and growing numbers of private American citizens seek information on how to leave Israel and Iran."

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"Trump suggested the two situations were very different, though."

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"The president's decision to hold back on hitting Iran has frustrated Israeli officials, who have been privately pushing their case for U.S. military involvement for months."

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"Mr. Trump dismissed his intelligence community's public assessment of Iran on Friday, and Gabbard specifically, as the White House says the president will decide whether to join Israel in its strikes on Iran within two weeks."

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"Iran has said it will not resume talks over its nuclear programme while under attack, hours after Israel's defence minister warned of "prolonged" conflict against the Islamic republic."

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"Iran is uncertain whether it can trust the United States in diplomatic talks after Israel launched an aerial attack on the country only days before scheduled negotiations with American officials."

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"The Trump administration will own the consequences if it decides to go to war against Iran—a war Americans largely don't want."

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"Trump's consideration of bringing the United States into Israel's conflict with Iran has reignited tensions inside the Republican Party and Trump's own base, pitting traditional GOP hawks against prominent anti-interventionist voices in the party."

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"It remains to be seen if the conversation in Geneva produced some indication of whether Iran is still open to direct talks with the U.S."

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"The week of war between Israel and Iran has killed at least 657 people, including 263 civilians, in Iran, the Washington-based group Health Rights Activist told the AP."

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"Late-night hosts pointed out how often the former host of The Apprentice likes to kick the can down the road by a fortnight, showing clips of him over the past 10 years promising certain things, including a healthcare plan and a tariff plan, in two weeks."

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"Ultimately, Nelson agreed, all of these risks pale in comparison with the threat posed by the MOP bomb itself, whose payload is upward of 5,500 pounds and weighs a total of 30,000 pounds."

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"President Trump is weighing U.S. actions amid Israel and Iran's ongoing strikes."

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"Trump has apparently decided to give peace one more chance—if that is indeed what he is doing."

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"The promise of “America First” foreign policy is dead."

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"The conflict is now in a phase of “coercive diplomacy,” where Trump is signaling that he’s preparing for military strikes, he said."

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"The war between Israel and Iran erupted June 13, with Israeli airstrikes targeting nuclear and military sites, top generals and nuclear scientists."

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"U.S. stock futures edge up after President Donald Trump said he's mulling whether to join Israel in its attack on Iran."

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"Iranians, with enough support from the international community, are ready and willing to build their own new government, and "we want a democratic Iran. We want a secular Iran.""

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"Investors didn’t read the two-week delay as an opening for diplomacy that would avoid the most catastrophic outcome: a bombed Iran blocking critical petroleum shipments through the Strait of Hormuz and sending oil to $130."

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"Iranians have spent nearly half of the conflict in a near-communication blackout, unable to connect not only with the outside world but also with their neighbors and loved ones across the country."

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"Before war is waged and lives put on the line, Congress should debate the matter and put it to a vote."

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"The talks revive the European trio known as the 'E3,' which led previous negotiations with Iran in the early 2000s and helped broker the 2015 nuclear deal under former President Barack Obama's administration."

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"The lack of information going in or out of Iran is stunning, considering that the advancement of technology in recent decades has only brought far-flung conflicts in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip and elsewhere directly to a person’s phone anywhere in the world."

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"The most consequential decision of Donald Trump’s presidency is now on pause for two weeks."

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"The human toll could’ve been much worse: According to hospital administrators, patients in the part of the building that sustained the most damage had been evacuated to an underground facility just hours before the attack."

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"The talks will be the first face-to-face meeting between Western and Iranian officials since the start of the conflict."

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"A week of Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 657 people and wounded 2,037 others, the Washington-based group Human Rights Activists said Friday."

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"The talks will be the first face-to-face meeting between Western and Iranian officials since the start of the conflict."

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"The war between Israel and Iran erupted June 13, with Israeli airstrikes targeting nuclear and military sites, top generals and nuclear scientists."

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"The open conflict sparked by Israel’s sudden barrage of attacks against Iran’s nuclear and military structure shows no signs of abating on the seventh day of hostilities between the two longtime foes that threatens to spiral into a wider, more dangerous regional war."

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"President Trump has been briefed on both the risks and the benefits of bombing Fordo, Iran's most secure nuclear site, and his mindset is that disabling it is necessary because of the risk of weapons being produced in a relatively short period of time."

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"Cirincione stressed that continued military strikes would not be a good option for Israel or the U.S. if the goal is an Iran without nuclear weapons."

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"Trump has been crowdsourcing with an array of allies outside the White House and in his administration about whether they think he should greenlight strikes in Iran — a question that has divided his core supporters."

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"Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon, and it would take a couple of weeks to complete the production of that weapon, which would, of course, pose an existential threat not just to Israel but to the United States and to the entire world."

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"The deal went into effect on Jan. 16, 2016, after the IAEA verified that Iran had completed steps, including shipping 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium out of the country, dismantling and removing two-thirds of its centrifuges and allowing for more extensive international inspections of its nuclear facilities."

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"Consider the fact that attitudes toward Israel and Jews generally are highly age-dependent, with numerous surveys in the last two years having found older Americans more likely to express sympathy for Israelis and/or Jewish people than the younger cohort."

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"The threat from Iranian operatives has worried current and former administration officials since Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was assassinated on Mr. Trump's orders in January 2020."

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"The US joining Israeli strikes would cause "hell for the whole region", Iran's deputy foreign minister has told the BBC."

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"There are hugely important differences between then and now, but today's guest will offer the long view."

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"US President Donald Trump will decide whether or not the US gets directly involved in the Iran-Israel conflict within the next two weeks, the White House has said."

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"The idea of providing Israel with GBU-57 bombs and jets capable of carrying them is controversial, with critics arguing the move would be provocative."

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"Trump’s deliberately chaotic approach is making some lawmakers a bit nervous."

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"The conflict arose last Friday after Israel launched a military operation primarily targeting nuclear sites within the country."

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"As he weighs his options, Trump is being squeezed by different pressures from forces at home and abroad."

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"But after a week of bruising attacks by Israel, and with the threat of more to come and even possible direct U.S. intervention looming on the horizon, the optimism and bluster may be getting harder to maintain."

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"Because let me tell you, my friends, it does not matter what you think about Iran."

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"Iranians want peace, he said."

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"Aerial attacks between Israel and Iran continued overnight into Tuesday, marking a fifth day of strikes following Israel's Friday attack."

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The conflict escalated due to Israeli missile and drone attacks resulting in over 722 Iranian deaths, recent Israeli airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities killing commanders and damaging sites, and the U.S. deploying B-2 bombers to Guam as military pressure on Iran increases.

The U.S. is intensifying pressure on Iran by relocating B-2 bombers to Guam and is considering military options to support Israel amid ongoing regional threats, including Iranian-backed Houthi rebels threatening U.S. vessels.

Iran warns that U.S. involvement in Israeli actions would be dangerous for everyone, while Turkish President Erdogan accuses Israel of sabotaging nuclear talks and calls for urgent de-escalation.

Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasizes the urgent need to address Iran's nuclear threat and is considering options to neutralize Iran's nuclear capabilities to prevent further regional destabilization.

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels' threats against U.S. vessels add a dimension of regional complexity and raise the potential for a broader conflict involving multiple actors beyond Israel and Iran.

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