Trump Says More U.S. Casualties Are ‘Likely’ in War With Iran, and Oil Prices Jump After Attack
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From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Monday, March 2nd. Here's what we're covering.
Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved.
The United States and Israel struck more than 2,000 more targets in Iran yesterday, not letting up on the assault that's taken out the country's senior leadership and set off a wave of violence across the Middle East.
These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and lots of threats.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed Saturday, along with several high-level military leaders. In retaliation, Iran has fired a barrage of missile attacks at Israel and at U.S. military bases in the region. One strike killed three U.S. soldiers at a base in Kuwait.
And sadly, there will likely be more. Before it ends, that's the way it is. Likely be more, but we'll do everything.
President Trump acknowledged the U.S. toll in a short address yesterday, saying their deaths would be avenged. And he called on the remaining Iranian military and the country's Revolutionary Guard to surrender or be killed. My colleague Zolan Kano-Youngs spoke with Trump yesterday and asked the president how long he thought the operation in Iran could last. Trump told him it could go on for four to five weeks.
I also pressed the president on wanting Iran's security forces to drop their weapons and surrender.
What are the latest developments in the U.S.-Iran conflict?
I asked him, well, who are they supposed to surrender to? And the president said that he hopes that these security forces surrender to the people of Iran. It's worth noting here, though, that these were the same security forces just earlier this year that were opening fire on street protesters and killing thousands. Now the president is saying that he hopes security forces will drop their weapons and surrender to the same people that they were targeting. Really what the interview reflected is the degree to which the administration remains uncertain about what the next few weeks will hold. And it comes at a time in which the entire world is really watching the Trump administration, the conflict in the Middle East, and wondering if this will expand into a broader conflict and what steps President Trump will take after launching this extraordinary action.
As of today, we have every right, every legitimate right to defend ourselves. What the United States is doing is an act of aggression.
Iran's retaliatory strikes have killed at least nine people in Israel. And across the Gulf, four others were killed and more than 100 injured after Iran fired missiles and drones at cities including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, which had been considered safe havens in the volatile region. Iran's foreign minister said yesterday in an interview with ABC it would keep fighting.
We are defending ourselves, whatever it takes, and we see no limit for ourselves to defend our people, to protect our people.
Inside Iran, the toll of the attacks is not yet clear. Large explosions have rocked Tehran and cities outside the capital. A girls' elementary school in the south of the country was hit, killing 115 people, according to Iranian state media. The school is adjacent to a naval base. The conflict has also spread to the water. The U.S. has been trying to sink Iran's navy, and commercial ships are on high alert in the Strait of Hormuz, where a significant amount of natural gas and one-fifth of the world's oil passes through.
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