President Trump called for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ on Tuesday. Israeli officials have been pushing the United States to use its huge bunker-busting bomb to crush Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

U.S. officials told multiple outlets that the Navy directed the USS Thomas Hudner, a destroyer capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, from the western Mediterranean Sea toward the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it will join the USS Arleigh Burke. A second destroyer was also ordered to change course to be available if requested.

Israel's strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure come months after DNI Tulsi Gabbard testified that the intelligence community determined Iran was not building nuclear weapons.

Israel’s military campaign reminds some of America’s ill-fated Middle East interventions, which President Trump has long denounced.

Iran had previously threatened U.S. targets in the region and now blames the United States for the Israeli attacks

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the first to respond to the attack publicly with a statement Thursday evening — but others have yet to comment.

Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

Iran and Israel continued on Sunday their aerial attacks, which began Friday with a series of Israeli strikes on Iran.