Iran-Trump latest: Iranian drone strikes US navy base as president says Tehran attack could last weeks – UK Times

California Rep. Ro Khanna has said that Donald Trump’s airstrikes in Iran are a “betrayal of a decent chunk of the MAGA base,” and that many Republicans do not want to see America dragged into another foreign war.

“Donald Trump said that the Iraq War was a disaster,” Khanna said, appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday.

“He said Libya was a disaster. He ran because a big part of the MAGA base did not want another war in the Middle East… I believe this is a betrayal of a decent chunk of the MAGA base.”

Khanna added he was confident that a vote on a War Powers Resolution, to strip the president of unauthorized military authority, would be successful.

The Democrat has pushed for the vote along with GOP Rep. Thomas Massie.

Oil prices surged to their highest levels in months on Monday after the US and Israel launched weekend strikes on Iran, intensifying conflict in the Middle East and disrupting shipments from the key oil-producing region.

Brent crude jumped about 7% as attacks between Iran and Israel escalated, damaging tankers and fuelling fears of wider supply disruptions. The spike in crude prices rattled global markets, sending airline stocks sharply lower amid concerns over rising fuel costs and prolonged travel chaos.

Shares in Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific, Australia’s Qantas Airways, Singapore Airlines and Japan Airlines fell more than 5%, while Qantas dropped as much as 10.4% at the open before trimming losses.

Other Asian carriers, including ANA Holdings, Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, AirAsia X, China Airlines and EVA Airways, also declined at least 4%.

Surge in oil prices comes as two vessels have been hit and a third was reported to have had an “unknown projectile” explode very close to it, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) said.

Iran has also warned ships not to transit the Strait of Hormuz — a crucial waterway through which about 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas supplies pass.

The Israeli military on Monday ordered residents of at least 55 Lebanese towns to move 1km away from their homes, a military spokesperson said.

Residents of Beirut woke up to the sounds of blasts at 3am on Monday as Israel carried out heavy airstrikes in response to Iran-backed Hezbollah’s drone and missile strikes.

Israeli military struck three different locations in the southern suburbs of the capital as explosions shook windows.

An Israeli military spokesperson has issued evacuation orders for 55 different villages and towns across Lebanon, asking people to move 1,000 metres away.

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US secretary of state Marco Rubio will brief leaders of the US Senate and the House of Representatives at 4pm ET today, according to his public schedule.

The briefing comes on the third day of joint US–Israeli strikes on Iran.

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that it is responding to a suspected Iranian drone strike at a British military base in Cyprus.

“Our Armed Forces are responding to a suspected drone strike at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus at midnight local time,” a spokesperson told The Independent. “Our force protection in the region is at the highest level and the base has responded to defend our people.”

The spokesperson added that the situation was “live” and that further information would be provided “in due course.”

It is understood that there were no casualties in the strike, which took place in the early hours of Monday morning, but that “minor damage” had been caused.

Donald Trump has suggested the conflict with Iran could go on for the next four weeks, after the US president earlier said that operations are “ahead of schedule”.

“It’s always been a four-week process,” the president said, per The Daily Mai.

“We figured it will be four weeks or so. It’s always been about a four-week process so – as strong as it is, it’s a big country, it’ll take four weeks – or less.”

At least 115 people, most of them likely to be children, were killed during U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on a girls school in Iran Saturday, according to new reports.

The strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh school in the southern town of Minab is believed to be the deadliest attack so far in the ongoing Operation Epic Fury.

Videos and images verified by The New York Times showed that at least half of the institution was destroyed in the bombardment.