Trump's USA Reactions to the attacks

Conservative profiles angry after the attack: "Sick fucking liars"

Several conservative profiles are strongly attacking Donald Trump's decision to attack Iran, which they believe is a betrayal of a campaign promise not to start any new wars. This is reported by Rolling Stone.

Journalist and activist Tucker Carlson, who visited the White House as recently as last week, calls the attack "completely disgusting and evil".

Marjorie Taylor Greene, formerly a loyal Trump supporter in the House of Representatives, now an activist and debater, calls the administration "sick fucking liars".

“We voted for America First and zero wars,” she writes on X.

Further out on the conservative fringes, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and the male influencer Andrew Tate accused of rape and trafficking are also raging.

Broad Republican support for Trump's attack on Iran

Most Republicans in Congress – with a few exceptions – have rallied behind Donald Trump's attack on Iran, writes the New York Times.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson tells the newspaper that Trump has “exhausted his peaceful and diplomatic options” and that Iran threatens not only the United States, but the entire Western world.

Democrats, on the other hand, have largely agreed to condemn the attack. One exception is Senator John Fetterman, who often finds himself at odds with his party colleagues because of his relatively benign attitude towards the president and his very strong support for the state of Israel.

"President Trump has been willing to do what is right and proper to bring about real peace in the region," he writes.

Iran expert: The regime will not be overthrown with bombs

To overthrow Iran's Islamist regime requires more than killing the top leadership. Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi tells TT.

According to him, the country's system of government is designed to survive external attacks. Leaders who are killed can be replaced, even Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is replaceable.

- With bombs you can kill a minister and his ten closest men, but you cannot take over the ministry. That requires someone to go in with a gun in hand, says Parsi.

Trump has called on the Iranian people to overthrow the regime in connection with the American-Israeli attacks. Parsi says that "an incredible number of people" want to overthrow the regime, but that the question is how organized they can be and how tough the resistance will be.

- Trump himself probably thinks that now the Iranian people have the chance and if they miss it, it's their problem, he adds.
Middle East crisis • Iran attack
Sources: US plans more attacks - wanted to surprise the regime with a morning attack

The US is planning a series of escalating attacks against Iran over a period of time. This is stated by a high-ranking American source to CNN anchor and security commentator Jim Sciutto.

Each wave of attacks will last between two to three days and between them the US will regroup and assess the damage.

He, like the Wall Street Journal, also has information about why the attack took place during the day. Attacks like these often occur in the dark of night, but the US and Israel chose to strike during the morning hours when they had intelligence that several Iranian leaders would gather at that time. The timing of the attack was also part of the element of surprise.

According to unconfirmed assessments that Israeli media have taken note of, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the attacks. According to CNN, Iran was attacked in the morning hours precisely because Khamenei felt more secure during the day.

According to the channel's sources, it is hopeful that the Iranian leader is dead, but no deaths of officials have yet been confirmed. Iran denies that Khamenei was killed.

The Iran attack — that's the point

• Israel and the US carried out a major missile attack on Iran shortly after 7 a.m. on Saturday morning, with powerful explosions in Tehran and several other Iranian cities.
• Iran responded with missile and drone attacks on Israel. Attacks have also been carried out against US military bases in several countries in the Middle East, including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.I
• Several high-ranking commanders in Iran's Revolutionary Guard were killed, according to Iranian sources. Large parts of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's palace in Tehran were leveled.
• Donald Trump says the bombings will continue. He urges Iranians to seek shelter, but also to exploit the situation to overthrow the regime.
• A long list of airlines have canceled flights to the region and the Swedish Foreign Ministry has expanded its travel advice to Israel.
• Experts warn that the attacks could be the starting point of a larger war in the Middle East.