Iranian state television confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed by airstrikes in Tehran on Saturday. His successor is yet to be named. Iran is responding to the operation with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel,

President Donald Trump claimed Iran's supreme leader was planning to attack first, justifying joint U.S.-Israel strikes against the country without congressional approval.

President Trump responded to a question about Secretary of State Rubio's statement that impending Israeli action is the reason why the U.S. started striking Iran now, which some people have interpreted as meaning that Israel "dragged" the U.

President Trump is demanding that his Israeli counterpart immediately pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his years-long corruption trial so he can focus on the Iran war.

The White House recently confirmed that the US went to war with Iran because of President Donald Trump‘s feelings. On February 28, the President announced that the US had launched a military operation against Iran along with Israel.

House lawmakers narrowly rejected a war powers resolution to halt President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran, a day after the Senate voted down a similar measure.

Follow live updates and the latest news coverage as Iran vows revenge for the U.S. warship sinking, Trump and Israel strike Tehran, and Americans are stranded in the Middle East.

Israel sent troops into Lebanon as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran widened, and some of Iran's Gulf neighbors warned that Iran's retaliatory fire could draw them into the spreading conflict.