As Iran retaliates, largest US military base in Middle East hit by ballistic missile, Qatar says
No one was injured, according to the Qatari Ministry of Defense.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Saturday, with daytime strikes in the joint U.S.-Israel attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.
On Sunday, Iranian state television confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed by airstrikes in Tehran on Saturday.
Iran is responding to the U.S.-Israeli operation with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and Gulf nations. American diplomatic facilities have also been attacked.
In Lebanon, Israel is intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iranian-aligned Hezbollah militia.
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Key Headlines
- Death toll in Lebanon rises to at least 50 killed, over 300 injured: Health officials
- US embassy in Jordan issues shelter-in-place order
- Canadian PM says US-Israeli actions may be 'inconsistent with international law'
- Qatar says Al Udeid Air Base hit by ballistic missile
- Rubio says 'intensity' of attacks on Iran to ramp up
Trump doesn't rule out troops on ground
President Donald Trump did not rule out U.S. troops on the ground in Iran during an exclusive interview with the New York Post on Monday.
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground -- like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it," Trump told the New York Post. "I say, ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.'”
While the president told the Daily Mail on Sunday that the operation in Iran could take up to four weeks, the president on Monday told the New York Post that the operation is "going to go pretty quickly."
“We’re right on schedule, way ahead of schedule in terms of leadership -- 49 killed -- and that was, you know, going to take, we figured, at least four weeks, and we did it in one day,” Trump said, referring to the number of Iranian leaders he said were killed in the attacks on Iran.
-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart
Khamenei was having breakfast meeting with aides during strikes, Trump tells Fox News
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran who was killed in Saturday’s strikes, was having a breakfast meeting with senior aides at the time, and they were “thinking they were safe because it was in broad daylight,” President Donald Trump told Fox News.
Trump also told Fox News that 49 senior Iranian leaders were killed in the initial strikes. Over the weekend, Trump said 48 senior leaders were killed.
-ABC News’ Fritz Farrow
Trump signals 'big wave' to come in Iran: CNN
President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday that the U.S. military is “knocking the crap” out of Iran and the “big wave” is yet to come.
“We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper in a phone call.
US intel did not suggest Iran was preparing to launch preemptive strike, sources say
Congressional staff were told by Trump administration officials in private briefings Sunday that Iran was not preparing to launch a preemptive strike against U.S. interests based on U.S. intelligence reports, four people familiar with the briefing told ABC News. CNN was the first to report this news.
This conflicts with what President Donald Trump and senior Trump administration officials said over the weekend.
The administration officials said there were indicators the Iranians could launch a preemptive attack against U.S. forces and allies in the region.
Trump said in his video address to the nation on Saturday, "Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime."
Trump told ABC News on Saturday, “I think there was a threat."
"Had we not done 'Midnight Hammer,'" he said, referring to the U.S. strikes on Iran in June 2025, "which was one of the greatest things country has ever done, we would’ve been faced with a nuclear weapon within a month.”
-ABC News’ Rachel Scott, Shannon Kingston, Ben Siegel, Luke Barr