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• Trump on Iran: President Donald Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper the “big wave” is yet to come in the war with Iran. In separate remarks, Trump said Tehran ignored his warnings over its nuclear program, and he did not rule out sending US troops to Iran if “necessary.”
• Embassy hit: The US embassy in Kuwait was hit in strikes on Sunday and Monday during an Iranian bombardment, a source told CNN. Separately, three US fighter jets were accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses in an apparent “friendly fire incident,” according to the US military.
• Expanding war: Israel and Hezbollah are trading blows as the conflict widens, while explosions have been heard in Gulf cities including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha.
• Global shockwaves: Qatar’s state-run energy company has stopped its production of liquefied natural gas following an Iranian attack on its facility. The war has disrupted air travel, with airspace closed in the Middle East.
Israeli military says it hit several Iranian intelligence headquarters
The Israeli military has said it hit “dozens” of targets belonging to the Iranian regime and its intelligence services in Iran’s capital Tehran in additional waves of strikes.
The strikes targeted “headquarters, bases, and regional command centers of the Iranian terrorist regime’s internal security bodies,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Monday.
They also targeted more than 10 sites belonging to the regime’s main intelligence services under the Ministry of Intelligence, the IDF said.
In addition, the IDF said it had hit multiple missile launchers and ballistic missile arrays.
US Embassy in Jordan evacuated due to unspecified "threat"
All personnel at the US Embassy in Jordan have been temporarily evacuated “out of an abundance of caution” due to an unspecified “threat,” the embassy said Monday.
A security warning message could be heard playing over the embassy’s loudspeakers in videos circulating on Jordanian WhatsApp groups.
“Duck and take cover and get away from windows. Take cover and await further instructions,” the message says in both Arabic and English.
The embassy, one of the largest in the world, is in an upscale area of the Jordanian capital that is home to both residential and commercial buildings.
Iran's ballistic missile capability expected to take big hit soon, Israeli officials say
Israel expects Iran’s ability to fire ballistic missiles will be significantly impacted in the next 24 hours, two Israeli officials said, as the US and Israel intensify their strikes in Iran.
Iran’s rate of missile fire is expected to decrease by Tuesday night, the officials said, with fewer missiles being fired at Israel.
The US and Israel have already struck more than 1,200 targets in the first three days of the war. By Tuesday, that figure is expected to double, following what officials described as a relentless pace of strikes on Monday that is expected to continue into the night.
Monday night’s strikes by the US and Israel are expected to focus on missile launchers, internal security forces and Revolutionary Guards targets, one of the officials said.
US and Israeli officials repeatedly indicated on Monday that the pace and success of the airstrike campaign is so far exceeding expectations.
Here's how the war with Iran will affect Americans
Oil prices skyrocketed Monday after the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran over the weekend. CNN’s Matt Egan breaks down how the war on Iran will affect American consumers.
There's increased security at the US Capitol but no immediate threat
Out of an abundance of caution, there’s an increased security posture at the US Capitol in the wake of the military operation in Iran.
A person familiar with the matter told CNN the posture is standard operating procedure in such a heightened political climate.
USCP, the notice said, “has not identified any specific or credible threats.”
US Embassy in Kuwait hit on Sunday and Monday, source says
The US Embassy in Kuwait was hit in strikes on Sunday and Monday amid Iranian bombardment of the country, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
There were no reported injuries, according to the source and a US official. The official would not confirm that the embassy was hit.
It was not immediately clear if there was significant damage to the embassy. Smoke was seen rising near the embassy on Monday.
In a security alert Monday, the embassy warned, “There is a continuing threat of missile and UAV attacks over Kuwait.”
“Do not come to the Embassy. Take cover in your residence on the lowest available floor and away from windows. Do not go outside,” it warned, noting that embassy personnel “are sheltering in place.”
“Due to ongoing regional tensions, the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait has canceled all appointments for U.S. visas and American Citizen Services until further notice,” the embassy said in a later security alert.
Some Iranian navy vessels are burning, satellite images show
Dramatic satellite images taken Monday afternoon show dark plumes of smoke rising from multiple burning vessels at a military harbor in Bandar Abbas, Iran.
One of the ships, over 750 feet long, appears to have been converted from an oil tanker to a naval vessel with a large helicopter landing pad. Take a look below:
The strikes appear to have targeted the largest vessels, leaving many smaller ships and at least one submarine intact.
"Safe and secure": UAE leaders walk through Dubai Mall as country reports over 800 attacks
The United Arab Emirates has come under more than 800 drone and missile attacks during the regional conflict so far, most of which were intercepted, according to its Defense Ministry.
Of the 174 ballistic missiles Iran launched at the UAE, 161 were intercepted, while the rest fell into the sea. The UAE also detected 689 drones launched toward it, with 645 intercepted, while 44 landed in the country, the state’s Emirates News Agency said, citing the ministry.
Eight cruise missiles were also destroyed, causing “collateral damage” and killing a Pakistani, a Nepali and a Bangladeshi.
The ministry said the sounds heard across the country were from “air defense systems intercepting ballistic missiles and fighter jets intercepting drones and cruise missiles,” state media reported.
Despite the attacks, UAE leadership is stressing that the country remains safe. UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was seen walking alongside Defense Minister Hamdan Bin Mohammed at Dubai Mall.
“Close to the people. Steady in leadership,” read a post by the Dubai Media Office accompanying a video of the Emirati officials walking through the mall.
Israel's UN envoy says Iran leadership is "lashing out in desperation"
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said Iran’s leadership is “lashing out in desperation” following what he described as decisive and surgical US-Israeli strikes, and he vowed that Israel will continue its military campaign for “as long as it takes.”
Speaking to reporters in New York on Monday, Danon said Israel and the US “will not stop” their operations against Iran until their objectives are met. “We will do whatever is necessary to make sure Iran doesn’t have nuclear capabilities,” he said.
Danon said Israel would do “whatever is necessary to protect our people, to protect our borders.”
He also expressed hope for new leadership in Tehran, saying he believes that freedom for the Iranian people “will come sooner than later.”
Texas Republican voters weigh in on US strikes on Iran ahead of primary election
Just one day before primary Election Day in Texas, two voters from the Lone Star State spoke to CNN about the US strikes on Iran and the spiraling war in the Middle East.
Linda Johnson, a Republican voter from Waco who cast a ballot early for state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the high-stakes Senate primary, told CNN’s Arlette Saenz that the US strikes are “necessary.”
Meanwhile, Kurt Krakowian — a GOP voter from Hewitt who remains undecided in the Senate race — applauded President Donald Trump for taking action.
Krakowian added that he hopes “the end result is that the people will be free.”
The voters’ support for the operation comes as a new CNN poll shows that nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the US decision to take military action in Iran. However, 77% of Republicans approve of the military action, compared with 32% of independents and 18% of Democrats.
State TV shows Iranians protesting the death of Khamenei
Anti-US and anti-Israeli protesters are on the streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, today after the death of Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iranian state media Press TV reports.
Protesters are heard chanting “no submission, no surrender, and war with America,” according to Press TV.
They are showing “their support and their continued dedication to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” a Press TV reporter tells viewers, adding that there are people of all ages among the demonstrators who want to “send a message to the world” that Iranians “remain steadfast despite everything you throw at us.”
Iranians have told CNN they feel a mixture of joy and unease after Khamenei’s death.
Iran says its enemies won't be safe "even inside their own homes"
Iran has warned that its enemies will not be safe even in their own homes.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said the recent losses of its supreme leader and other top officials “have not shaken (Iran), but rather made it stronger,” the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) reported.
The IRGC said Iran would continue to fight “until the enemy is defeated”
Israeli strikes kill more than 50 in Lebanon
At least 52 people were killed and 154 were wounded in Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese government said.
Israel said it had carried out strikes against Hezbollah targets in the country after the group launched several projectiles at what it said was a military base in northern Israel.
More than 70 missiles and drones have hit Iraq's Erbil, minister says
More than 70 missiles and drones have hit the city of Erbil in northern Iraq, Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein said on Monday, with additional attacks in the south and west of the country.
In a call with the UAE’s Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Hussein said Iraq had “become a victim of this war” and had come under attack by “various parties involved in the conflict,” according to a government statement.
Earlier in the day, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani directed the country’s security agencies to confront “any act that harms security and stability.”
Remember: On Sunday, the Iran-backed militia Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces said four of its members were killed in US-Israel strikes that targeted one of its headquarters in eastern Iraq.
NATO has “absolutely no plans” to join war with Iran, Rutte says
There are “absolutely no plans” for NATO to get involved in the war with Iran, the military alliance’s secretary general said on Monday, though he praised the US and Israeli action.
In an interview with German ARD television in Brussels, Mark Rutte described the US and Israeli operations as “really important.”
“It is taking out, degrading the capacity of Iran to get its hands on nuclear capability, the ballistic missile capability,” he told ARD.
However, he added there were “absolutely no plans whatever for NATO to get dragged into this or be part of it, other than individual allies doing what they can to enable what the Americans are doing together with Israel.”
Some context: Rutte’s comments come as individual NATO members calibrate their own responses to the escalating conflict. The UK, for instance, has said it is not part of the offensive against Iran but has agreed to allow its military bases to be used for “defensive” strikes on Iranian missile stocks. On Sunday, the UK, Germany and France said in a joint statement they would “take steps to defend our interests and those of our allies in the region, potentially through enabling necessary and proportionate defensive action to destroy Iran’s capability to fire missiles and drones at their source.”
US military shares video of bombers taking off to strike Iran
The US military shared video on social media today of US bombers taking off to strike targets in Iran.
The 45-second video shows B-1 bombers being prepared and taking off.
US Central Command said in a post on X that the bombers “struck deep inside Iran to degrade Iranian ballistic missile capabilities” last night.
Travel disruption is rippling far beyond the Middle East. Get the latest here.
Open the airplane-tracking website Flightradar24 right now and the change is unmistakable. Where one of the world’s busiest aviation crossroads should be — a dense web of aircraft linking Europe, Asia and Africa — there is instead a yawning gap. A hole in the sky.
As conflict escalates in Iran with secondary effects across the Middle East, vast swaths of regional airspace have closed or emptied. And because this region sits at the center of modern long-haul travel, the disruption is rippling far beyond it.
For decades, Europe-to-Asia traffic has flowed straight through the Middle East.
The region is home to some of aviation’s most powerful megahubs — Dubai International Airport, Hamad International Airport in Qatar and Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi — and to carriers such as Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways, whose business models are built on connecting East and West.
Read more about the travel delays and disruption here.
Potentially thousands of cruise passengers in Doha are facing uncertainty after regional airspace closures linked to escalating tensions between Israel, Iran and the US grounded flights across the Middle East disrupting travel plans and extending what was meant to be the end of a holiday.
Three teenage siblings among those killed in Iranian missile strike near Jerusalem
Three teenage siblings were among those killed when an Iranian missile landed in a residential area in the city of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem, according to the municipality.
The funerals for Yaakov Biton, 16, Avigail Biton, 15, and Sarah Biton, 13, were held on Sunday afternoon. “The Beit Shemesh municipality shares the family’s deep sorrow and embraces them at this difficult time,” the city said in a statement.
At least nine people were killed when the missile struck a residential area, hitting a synagogue that collapsed on a shelter in the city.
A volunteer for United Hatzalah, an Israeli emergency response service, and her mother were also killed in the strike, the service said.
A single mother of three, Ronit Elimelech had sent her children into the shelter when she ran out to bring her mother, according to Eli Beer, the founder of United Hatzalah.
“Right away we knew it was her, missing at the scene, because her car was right there, and the whole car was burnt completely,” Beer said. “Every scene you go to, you never know if you’re gonna meet someone you know very well, and I always have that fear.”
Iran's energy attacks are a way to "maximize leverage in retaliation," expert says
A fire at a massive oil refinery in Saudi Arabia and an attack on a liquefied natural gas plant in Qatar are worrying developments for energy markets and could signal the start of further attacks on vital infrastructure, analysts say.
“That’s a morphing of this crisis,” said David Oxley, chief commodities economist at Capital Economics. Oxley told CNN that continued attacks on energy infrastructure, particularly processing facilities such as oil refineries, could cause the current situation to “spiral” and drive “much bigger” moves in energy prices.
Two drones targeting Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura refinery were intercepted and destroyed Monday, causing a fire at the complex. Reuters reported that production at the refinery had been suspended as a precaution. Meanwhile, Qatar’s state-run energy company stopped production of liquefied natural gas following an Iranian attack on its facility in Ras Laffan today.
Simone Tagliapietra, a senior fellow at think tank Bruegel, echoed this sentiment. He said that moves to shut down production created “huge uncertainty” and presented a “key risk” in the region.
“Iran is deliberately targeting energy (infrastructure) as a way to maximize leverage in retaliation,” he told CNN.
Also on Monday, a major oil refinery in Kuwait was hit by falling shrapnel, according to state-run Kuwait News Agency.
UK does not believe in "regime change from the skies," Starmer says
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK Government does not “believe in regime change from the skies” after a joint US-Israeli military operation killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Starmer said earlier that the UK had agreed to a request from the US to allow British military bases to be used for “defensive” strikes on Iranian missile stocks. “I am not prepared to commit our military service people to action unless I am sure that what they’re doing is lawful,” Starmer added.
On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the goal of the strikes on Iran was not regime change. President Donald Trump has, however, pushed for regime change.
