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Residents watch as smoke rises from a nearby building during an Israeli strike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 12, 2026.
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Iran’s secretive new leader has issued his first public statements, resolving to keep fighting. In the statement released Thursday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei promised more pain for Gulf Arab states and threatened to open “other fronts” in a war that has already disrupted world energy supplies. Early Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new threat online to Iran, writing: “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.” Trump cited the damage inflicted on Iran and its leaders and called it a “great honor” to be responsible for it. The war continued to escalate as oil prices spiraled up again to $100 per barrel.
As American and Israeli strikes pound the Islamic Republic and Iran attacks Persian Gulf shipping and energy infrastructure with no sign of an end to the war, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a new threat to Iran’s leaders on his Truth Social website. “They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them,” Trump wrote. “What a great honor it is to do so!” Intense strikes hit Tehran and areas surrounding Iran’s capital, as Iran continued striking at neighboring Arab Gulf States, helping to drive oil prices back above $100 a barrel.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran launched multiple attacks early Friday on Gulf Arab …
