US EditionTrump Leaves Allies with 'Whiplash' over 'Ambiguous and Noncommittal' G7 Iran Call
Trump's video call with G7 leaders created confusion by sending unclear messages on U.S. objectives in Iran conflict amid lacking evidence for claimed threats, sources said.
- President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that the war with Iran will end "soon," asserting "Our military has virtually destroyed Iran" and that there is "practically nothing left" to target.
- On Wednesday, U.S. Central Command destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying ships, while the U.S. had decommissioned four anti-mine ships stationed in the Persian Gulf in January, degrading America's own mine-clearing capability.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio justified the preemptive strikes last Tuesday, saying, "We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action" that would prompt Iranian retaliation against American forces.
- A U.S. military strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh primary school in Minab on February 28 killed 175 people, many of them young girls, due to a targeting error near an adjacent IRGC naval base.
- The FBI warned California police that Iran allegedly aspired to conduct surprise attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles from unidentified vessels off the coast of the United State Homeland in potential retaliation.
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Trump leaves allies with 'whiplash' over 'ambiguous and noncommittal' G7 Iran call
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