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Oil futures surged in the first trades since the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran over the weekend. Oil prices had already been rising in anticipation of an attack on Iran. Traders are betting that the current disruption to the oil market because of the strikes will be relatively brief. Iran has major oil reservesIran plays a pivotal role in the global oil market. But an even bigger concern would be if Saudi Arabia’s oil production facilities are attacked and knocked offline for a long period of time.
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran's new leadership wants to talk to him and that he has agreed. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They waited too long,” Trump said in an interview with The Atlantic on Sunday. Asked whether the conversation would happen today or tomorrow, Trump said, “I can’t tell you that.” He added that some of the Iranians involved in negotiations in recent weeks were no longer alive. Some of the people we were dealing with are gone, because that was a big—that was a big hit,” he said.
“Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas and our allies throughout the world,” he said in a recorded statement Saturday. Trump said that after the U.S. bombed Iran in the summer, it had warned Tehran “never to resume” its pursuit of nuclear weapons. “The United States did not start this conflict, but we will finish it. “If you are Israel or the United States, that’s imminent,” he said. Trump said the campaign against Iran continued “unabated,” though he may be willing to negotiate with the nation’s new leaders.
That’s a win for the region.”Welker interjected, “But is there a plan to make sure that happens, senator? Is there a plan, does the president have a plan to guarantee that that happens?”AdvertisementAn irritated Graham replied, “No! It’s not his job or my job to do this! “We don’t own — you know this idea, ‘If you break it, you own it.’ I don’t buy that one bit,” Graham said. It’s in America’s interest to make sure that Iran can no longer be the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
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Attack on Iran was 'authorized' force: Rep. Issa Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says Iran had a "plan from the very top to undermine America through terrorism."
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Deadly Iranian strike hits residential area near JerusalemAt least nine people were killed in a direct Iranian missile strike on a residential area near Jerusalem, first responders said on Sunday. It marks the deadliest incident in Israel since Iran began retaliating to a wave of joint US-Israel strikes on Saturday morning. It is not yet clear why this area was targeted.
For months, Israeli and American intelligence agencies — including the CIA — had been secretly watching Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for just the right moment. “Israel regularly monitors all of the leaders of its main adversaries in one way or another,” an Israeli military official said. In the meeting, Trump said he would support a renewed Israeli military effort to take out missile sites. Meanwhile, a parade of top Israeli military and intelligence officials were flying to Washington to make plans. By then, intelligence officials had already identified the Saturday morning meeting in Tehran that would become the centerpiece of the eventual operation.
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Authorities said a man who fatally shot two people and wounded 14 others at a bar in Austin early Sunday may have been motivated by the U.S. military campaign in Iran, according to two people briefed on the investigation. The gunman, who was killed by officers at the scene, has been identified as Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who came to the country from Senegal in 2006, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing investigation. He had been living in Pflugerville, Texas, a city outside Austin. At the time of the shooting, Diagne was wearing a shirt with an Iranian flag that read “Property of Allah,” and investigators later found a Quran in the car he drove to the shooting scene, one of the people familiar with the matter said.
US lawmakers see no Trump plan for Iran following strikesUS Response and Political Reactions to Iran StrikesBy Doina ChiacuMarch 1 (Reuters) - The United States has yet to spell out a "day-after" strategy for Iran following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed much of the country's leadership, lawmakers from both major political parties said on Sunday. Lawmakers appearing on Sunday morning talk shows all opposed deploying U.S. ground forces to Iran. Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, said he could not see how regime change in Iran could happen with the current operation. Senator Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, said he hopes U.S. involvement in Iran can be completed within a month. "It all depends on... whoever the new leader is in Iran," Scott told Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures" show.
US strikes on Iran was 'brilliance': Security expert Steve Hill is an ABC News contributor and former U.K. national security official.
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