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Economic Times
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- Economic Times
'If we are attacked in any way...': Trump issues a warning for Iran, says US can 'end this bloody conflict'
Donald Trump has distanced the U.S. from the ongoing cross-border attacks between Iran and Israel, asserting Washington's non-involvement. While offering to broker a deal to end the conflict, Trump issued a stern warning to Iran, emphasizing the unparalleled strength of the U.S. military if attacked. He claimed that any aggression from Iran would be met with overwhelming force. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Israel-Iran trade more attacks; trigger fears of wider conflict Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Iran reports heavy civilian losses US President Donald Trump on Sunday issued a warning for Iran as the West Asian country entered the third day of its cross-border attacks against his administration from the attacks launched by Tel Aviv toward Tehran, Trump said that Washington had no role to play in the escalating conflict.'The US had nothing to do with the attack on Iran tonight,' Trump said in a post on Truth he issued a grave warning for Iran in the same statement. In a display of the US Army's strength, the US President claimed that if America were to be attacked, it'd retaliate at a scale 'never seen before'.'If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the US Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before,' said he offered to broker a deal between Iran and Israel as the two nations' current escalation threatens to turn into a full-scale war in West Asia, the subcontinent's second in less than two years.'However, we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict !!!' Trump and Iran traded fresh attacks overnight into Sunday, fueling fears of a wider conflict after Israel expanded its surprise campaign against its main regional rival with a strike on the world's largest gas escalation came after Tehran called off nuclear talks — which Washington described as the only path to halting Israel's assault — while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted the attacks were 'nothing' compared with what Iran could face in the days to Israeli military said additional missile volleys were launched from Iran toward Israel overnight and that it was striking military targets in Tehran in the early hours of Sunday, air raid sirens wailed across Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Multiple rockets were visible streaking through the sky above Tel Aviv, while interceptor batteries opened up from the ground and explosions echoed through both ambulance service reported that 3 women were killed and 10 injured in a missile attack near a home in Tamra, a predominantly Palestinian city in the north. Rescue workers were seen combing through the rubble by flashlight in search of 2:30 a.m., the Israeli military issued a fresh warning about another barrage from Iran and urged civilians to find shelter immediately. By 3:30 a.m., at least 4 people were reported killed and 36 injured in overnight attacks. Israeli media circulated an image of a 10-story residential building in central Israel with extensive damage from a direct said the Shahran oil depot in Tehran was hit in an Israeli attack and that a fire broke out at an oil refinery near the capital. Iran's Tasnim news agency also reported minor damage to the Defence Ministry building in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its own attacks were a direct response and that its missile and drone strikes were aimed at Israeli energy facilities and locations used to produce fighter jet fuel. The elite force further pledged 'heavier and more extensive' attacks if Israel continued its aggression.U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in, warning Iran it could face 'worse' if it kept up its attacks, but adding it was not too late to avoid further escalation if Iran made dramatic cuts to its nuclear programme.A round of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks slated for Oman on Sunday was called off, with Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi stating negotiations were impossible under the 'barbarous' attacks from first apparent attack to affect Iran's energy infrastructure came after Tasnim reported Iran had suspended production at the world's largest gas field — South Pars in Bushehr — following Saturday's Israeli over a potential disruption to the region's oil and gas flowed through markets, with prices up 9% on Friday, although Israel avoided striking Iran's oil and gas facilities during the first day of its Esmail Kosari said Iran was now reviewing whether to close the Strait of Hormuz — a key choke point for Gulf oil tankers — in response to Israeli said 78 people were killed on the first day of attacks and scores more on the second — including 60 people when a 14-story residential block in Tehran was struck by a missile. Among the 60 dead were 29 responded with its own retaliatory attack on Friday night, killing at least 3 people in Israeli officials insisting their operations could last weeks, and Netanyahu urging Iran's people to rise up against their clerical leadership, there were growing worries that the conflict could spiral and draw in outside powers.B'Tselem, a leading Israeli human rights group, condemned the Israeli government's decision to pursue a path of aggression instead of diplomacy, stating it was putting the entire region at meanwhile, issued a warning to Israel's allies — stating their bases in the region would come under attack if they helped shoot down Iranian ongoing 20-month war in Gaza and a separate conflict in Lebanon last year have already undermined Iran's ability to respond through its proxies — groups like Hamas and Hezbollah — adding to its growing says its attacks aim to destroy Iran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon — a claim Iran rejects, insisting its nuclear programme is entirely civilian. Nevertheless, the UN nuclear watchdog reported this week that Iran was in violation of its non-proliferation obligations.
Al Etihad
17-03-2025
- Politics
- Al Etihad
Trump claims Biden pardons of his opponents are void
17 Mar 2025 20:05 Washington (AFP)Donald Trump declared on Monday he was annulling pardons issued by Joe Biden to shield Trump critics from retribution, claiming that they were invalid because his Democratic predecessor had supposedly used an autopen for his was unclear what, if any, authority Trump has to void presidential pardons issued by his is extremely rare for pardons to be revoked in US history, and doing so in this case could see Trump again testing the limits of executive claimed that Biden's signature on the documents had been carried out with an autopen, a commonly used device, and therefore was not pardons "are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect, because of the fact they were done by Autopen," Trump posted on his social media account Truth he provided no evidence either for the use of an autopen or his contention that it would invalidate the presidents have long used autopens, including to sign bills into issued pardons to former senior Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney and other members of the congressional committee that had investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the by reporters early Monday whether everything Biden signed with an autopen should be voided, Trump said "I think so. It's not my decision, that'll be up to a court."But he said on Truth Social that the committee members "should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level." Biden also issued preemptive pardons to former Covid pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci, retired general Mark Milley, and his son Hunter.
