Iran-US warfare reside updates: Trump warns ‘you’ll be discovering out very quickly’ on future strikes as US embassy in Riyadh is focused

During an interview on Hannity, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the broadcaster that action ‘had to be taken’ to strike Iran.

“If no action was taken now then no action could be taken in the future. And then they could target America, they could blackmail America, They could threaten us and everyone in between, so action had to be taken,” Netanyahu said. “And you needed a resolute president like Donald J Trump to take that action.”

He insisted that failing to attack Iran would have allowed the government to obtain nuclear capabilities and hinder future attempts at military strikes.

“We had to take the action now, and we did. Otherwise the Iranian mass murder regime would have immunity from future action,” Netanyahu insisted.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on Fox News’ Hannity on Monday night and said that the strikes on Iran would not have happened without President Donald Trump’s “leadership.”

“We work together and amazing things happen. But I have to tell you that it wouldn’t happen without the leadership of President Trump,” Netanyahu told Hannity regarding the military strikes.

He recalled meeting with Trump in Mar-a-Lago before his election and discussing Iran and the nation’s nuclear program.

“The first thing that Donald Trump said to me, he said, ‘you know, we have to prevent Iran from getting nukes,’” Netanyahu said. “And so he said to me, right off the bat … we have to make sure they never get the nukes.”

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards senior official said on Monday that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and Iran will fire on any ship trying to pass.

“The strait (of Hormuz) is closed. If anyone tries to pass, the heroes of the Revolutionary Guards and the regular navy will set those ships ablaze,” Ebrahim Jabari, a senior adviser to the Guards commander-in-chief, said in remarks carried by state media.

The strait is the world’s most vital oil export route, which connects the biggest Gulf oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

On Monday night, President Donald Trump told reporters that Americans “will be finding out very soon” what will happen next in Iran.

“We’re doing a lot of damage. We’re inflicting tremendous damage on them,” he told reporters.

When asked who was in charge of Iran in the wake of the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khemenei, Trump reportedly replied that “you’ll be finding out very soon.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday evening that Trump officials felt attacking Iran was necessary because Israel was planning its own attack, and that there “absolutely was an imminent threat” to U.S. personnel in the region.

“The imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us,” Rubio told reporters.

He said that regardless of whether the U.S. or Israel conducted an attack, “[Iran was] going to respond against the U.S.,” and described Trump’s attack as the U.S. going “proactively in a defensive way to prevent [Iran] from inflicting higher damage.”

“We were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded,” he said.

Earlier on Monday House Speaker Mike Johnson gave a similar comment to reporters.

“Because Israel was determined to act with or without the U.S., our commander in chief and the administration and the officials … had to evaluate the threats to the U.S., to our troops, to our installations, to our assets in the region and beyond,” Johnson said.

A wide majority of Americans do not believe the White House has a clear plan for the future of the U.S. conflict with Iran, a dynamic possibly exacerbated by statements made by President Donald Trump and his closest allies on the issue.

As many as six in ten respondents to a survey published on Monday said that the president lacked “a clear plan for handling the situation”.

More than half of Americans (54 percent) also believe, according to CNN’s poll, that the conflict will end with Iran remaining a continued or greater threat to American interests.

Here’s how the Iran crisis has split America:

The officials Republican Party X account shared an image on Monday proclaiming that President Donald Trump is “Keeping Americans Safe.”

The U.S. embassy in Riyadh issued a post on X saying it has issued a shelter in place order for Jeddah, Riyadh and Dhahran.

“We recommend American citizens in the Kingdom to shelter in place immediately,” the embassy said.

Earlier on Monday a pair of drones struck the embassy and caused minor damage and a fire at the site.

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