U.S. and Israel launch another round of strikes on Iran following Khamenei’s killing
Senior administration officials on Saturday briefed reporters on the runup to the U.S. strikes against Iran, said the U.S. had sought a diplomatic solution to its impasse with Iran, but it ended up as “not a tangible and realistic option.” They said that the factors in President Trump’s decision to strike were the long-term threat of Tehran’s ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons and the short-term threat posed by its conventional missile capability. In the negotiations, the Iranians “refused at every instance to address ballistic missiles,” the officials said. They added that Iran refused to address proxies, which Mr. Trump “thought
