CBS News poll on Americans’ views on Iran prior to conflict

In polling completed just before news of the U.S. airstrikes on Iran, most Americans thought the U.S. should be at least pressuring or engaging the Iranian leadership in some form.  And in the days before the strikes began, there was movement toward approval of a U.S. military action specifically to stop them from making nuclear … Read more

Mamdani’s response to Trump’s Iran strike sparks conservative backlash: ‘Rooting for the Ayatollah’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing blowback from conservatives on social media over his post condemning the U.S. attack on Iran which led to the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On Saturday, as a joint strike on Iran by the United … Read more

Trump: Diplomatic solution in Iran remains possible and

President Trump told CBS News on Saturday evening that he believes U.S. and Israeli attacks that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been effective and could create a pathway to diplomacy.  “Much easier now than it was a day ago, obviously,” Mr. Trump said, when asked about the prospect of a diplomatic solution to the crisis during a … Read more

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, religious cleric who ruled Iran for decades, killed in strikes

After the 1989 death of Khomeini, who was the first supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Khamenei was not considered his natural successor. He was named as a candidate by a potential rival, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and won the support of other clerics. Over the next decade, Khamenei positioned the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps … Read more

Iran vows ‘decisive’ self defense at UN after Trump kills supreme leader in Operation Epic Fury

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iranian United Nations Ambassador Saeid Iravani condemned U.S. strikes against Iran at the U.N. Security Council meeting on Saturday that had targeted the country’s military leadership and killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling the attack a double standard and promising the country would defend itself. Iravani accused … Read more

Trump officials say Iran was preparing to potentially launch preemptive attack on U.S.

President Trump confirmed the death of Iran’s supreme leader on Truth Social, saying, “one of the most evil people in History, is dead.” CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang has more on why the Trump administration says an attack was necessary now. Source link