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Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy seemed to tire of President Donald Trump's doublespeak on the Iran conflict and pressed him to define the operation."And we did a little excursion. We had to take this little couple of weeks, a few weeks of excursion, but it's been incredible," Trump said while touring a factory in Ohio on Wednesday. "Our military is unbelievable, the job they're doing. I would say, to put it mildly, way ahead of schedule. We've knocked out their Navy, their military in it, all forms. We've knocked out just about everything there is, including their leadership, twice. We knocked out twice their leadership.""Now they have a new group coming up," he continued. "Let's see what happens to them. But 47 bad years we suffered with them, not only us, the rest of the world. We're doing our jobs. So we had to take an excursion, but it's going well.""You just said it is a little excursion, and you said it is a war," Doocy noted. "So which one is it?""It's both," Trump replied. "It's an excursion that will keep us out of a war. And the war is going to be, I mean, for them it's a war. For us, it's turned out to be easier than we thought.""But think of it, they had thousands of missiles, 7, 8,000 missiles," he added. "We got many of them before they got to launch. They have drones all over the place. We got many now, we're knocking out the drone plants, as you know, going fast."

Strike in Shukeiri killed schoolgirls, teachers and healthcare workers in latest incident in three-year warAt least 17 people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed on Wednesday when an explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces struck a secondary school and a health care centre.At least 10 people were wounded in the strike in the village of Shukeiri in the White Nile province, according to Dr Musa al-Majeri, director of Douiem hospital, the nearest major medical facility to the village. Continue reading...

Crew of Thai-registered bulk carrier forced to flee fire, as US says it has destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vesselsMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesThree merchant ships have been struck in and around the strait of Hormuz, including a Thai registered bulk carrier that caught fire after leaving a port in the UAE, forcing crew members to evacuate for their safety.The Mayuree Naree was struck on Wednesday by “two projectiles of unknown origin”, its owners said, as it sailed about 11 nautical miles north of Oman, marking the end of a four-day lull of attacks in the strategic waterway. Continue reading...

White House insiders divulged what President Donald Trump was considering next after the U.S. and Israel started launching military strikes in Iran, a Wall Street Journal reporter said Wednesday. Josh Dawsey, WSJ political investigations reporter, told a CNN panel that although Trump hasn't mentioned an exact exit strategy, his administration was panicking amid rising oil prices, looming midterms, and Americans' dissatisfaction over the escalating conflict to figure out what the off-ramp would be to leave the war in the Middle East. "He doesn't have an appetite for a long term war, at least according to my sources that I've talked to, he's looking for ways to sort of message 'We've done this, we've done that. Now it's time to leave,'" Dawsey said. "The question is, have they said how much of that can he control? Right. If he says we're out of here, and then let's say the Iranians keep attacking with the missiles or drones or they have left, what does the president do? The president has a lot of power. He's obviously, you know, in a lot of ways, the most powerful figure in the world but he can't control everything, right. And some of these things are beyond his control. But he wants to get out at some point." Trump has appeared to be influenced by a variety of factors, which could ultimately determine how the U.S. strategizes its moves with Iran. "He watches the markets closely, you see when he makes comments, when he wants the markets to sort of go back up, he watches the markets closely, watches oil prices closely," Dawsey said. "He watches the MAGA supporters closely. I mean, Joe Rogan, I can quite tell you the president notices that he's watching voices, he's watching polling in his party. He's watching the midterms. And I don't think he has an appetite for a long term sustained conflict with Iran, at least according to what I'm told by folks inside the White House." Trump has plenty on his mind — and it's not just the war. "He launches a war, and then he goes to a MAGA fundraiser where he polls everyone in the room. 'Do you think it should be JD Vance or Marco Rubio?' That's what he does the first weekend," Dawsey said. "He's done college football events. He goes in the White House and he's talking about the ballroom. I mean, I'm not saying he's not focused on the war. I'm just saying he has so many other things that he's talking to people about."Dawsey argued that the Trump administration doesn't appear to be making an aggressive case for the public as to why Americans should support the war. Instead, the president has focused on multiple things at once. "He's spent two hours on Friday afternoon of the college sports, and NIL roundtable, he had all these celebrities, he's talking to them," Dawsey added. "I'm not saying president couldn't weigh in on that. A lot of people care about college sports but I mean, it's sort of discordant from what's going on in the world."

The implications of Donald Trump’s decision to attack and start a war with Iran hit the White House like a tidal wave on Sunday as administration officials went into panic mode when the price of oil skyrocketed.Trump "flipped out" over skyrocketing oil prices as the barrel approached $120, according to Financial Times columnist Ed Luce, who revealed the presidential meltdown on MS NOW. A White House insider confirmed the account to Politico.The outburst exposes a fundamental miscalculation by the administration: Trump officials apparently never anticipated that military operations in the Middle East would send energy markets into turmoil.A former Trump administration official admitted the administration requires a "consistent, multiweek read" of oil prices before reconsidering its strategy. "These temporary little gyrations are not what they're going to be basing their policy on," the official said, signaling that short-term price spikes won't alter military decisions.Multiple officials confirmed the administration has never seriously entertained changing its military approach in response to oil price increases.Yet the Sunday price spike caught even White House insiders off guard. "At the worst moments [Sunday] night, it was insane," a person close to the White House said. "That definitely surprised me, and it absolutely surprised them."Rather than adjust course, administration officials spent Monday attempting damage control—reassuring panicked traders about supply chain stability while simultaneously trying to calm anxious Republicans. GOP lawmakers worry the Iran war directly contradicts their midterm message centered on lowering the cost of living.Public concern is substantial. More than 70 percent of voters expressed worry that the war will drive up oil and gas prices, according to a Quinnipiac poll.White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers dismissed the price increases as temporary, claiming Trump views elevated oil and gas costs as "short-term disruptions."You can read more here.

Donald Trump's war with Iran is set to reach a critical moment that will see the president's project come close to disaster. The unpopular war with the Middle Eastern country has raged on for much of March, but Trump is now facing the consequences of his rhetoric in the lead-up to war. While the president and his administration had given a multitude of reasons for why they were striking Iran, no reason has stuck or convinced the American people of the bombings, CNN analyst Stephen Collinson claimed. Collinson suggested one of the advantages Iran has over the US is its location, and that most in the States would find it hard to continue caring about a war that has made the cost of living crisis that much harder. The analyst wrote, "America’s distance from such theaters also explains why foreign wars become finite once citizens wonder why they are fighting other peoples’ battles with American blood and treasure. "Trump’s failure to properly prepare the country for this war and to define clear goals and an exit strategy make him especially vulnerable on this point as a pivotal moment in the war looms."Barring a sudden transformation of a region soaked in blood and the collapse of a regime that has defied the US for nearly 50 years, he will soon face a dilemma familiar to many modern presidents. Does he manufacture a false or partial victory and get out? Or does he get sucked in deeper?"History is not on Trump's side either, Collinson suggests, as the US has fought wars in a similar vein to Iran before and hardly ever succeeded in their initial aims. "Tehran has no doubt consulted the playbooks of previously outgunned US enemies," he wrote. "In Vietnam, Communist Viet Cong guerrillas and the North Vietnamese Army melted into thick jungles where they had the advantage over US troops. "In Iraq, the collapse of the Iraqi state led to the rise of insurgencies and sectarian militia that created killing grounds for US troops. "In Afghanistan, the Taliban waited nearly two decades for America to leave, emulating forbears who endured over Soviet and British Empires.

President Donald Trump's war in Iran continues to fracture his MAGA allies as the risks to the GOP's already-shaky position in the midterm elections becomes ever clearer.According to The Hill, "Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity and Brian Kilmeade have pushed hard-line positions on the war, while The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has urged Trump against ending the campaign due to 'short term economic discomfort' from rising oil prices."But at the same time, mega-podcaster Joe Rogan, who endorsed Trump in 2024, has condemned the war as "nuts," while other far-right figures like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly have condemned the apparent U.S.-involved bombing of an elementary school — while slamming Hannity, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — one of the biggest voices in the Senate for escalating the war.All this comes as Republicans begin to fear the political consequences of a war that is already becoming unpopular."The public seems to be losing its patience as the conflict stretches on," said the report. "While some polls initially showed a mixed picture of the country’s support for Trump’s handling of the situation and decision to attack Iran, recent surveys have shown the public increasingly turning against his decisionmaking. An NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released Friday showed 56 percent of respondents said they oppose the military action, while 44 percent said they support it."This figure may worsen, as the current toll of 7 deaths and 140 injuries among U.S. servicemembers rises — especially if Trump follows through with putting boots on the ground."Republicans who have been supportive of the operation have expressed concerns that the conflict could become a political liability for the GOP heading into the midterms, where the party is already expected to face hurdles in keeping control of Congress," said the report.

Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran is causing him to finally understand that his actions have consequences beyond his control, and he is reacting poorly to that realization, a journalist said.During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ Financial Times editor and longtime columnist Ed Luce claimed the massive jump in oil prices after the Gulf of Hormuz was shut down caused the president to lose it–– which was good news for Iran’s leadership.Speaking with the hosts, he explained, “I mean, we saw it over the last couple of days when oil prices went up way above $100 [per barrel] to almost $120. Trump flipped out and then started reassuring the markets that he's going to pull out soon; the war's almost over and the oil price came back down.”“That was a big reveal, an unsurprising reveal,” he elaborated. “But that was the big reveal to the Iranians that they know his price point.”He continued, “They had confirmation of their suspicion that Trump thought this was going to be a quick one-and-done 12-day kind of war, and that now that it isn't, he's beginning to feel the pain. And I think we can bet pretty safely that Iran has a higher pain threshold than Donald Trump. So they now have the absolute key without needing naval capability or ballistic capability, let alone enriched uranium.” - YouTube youtu.be