US President Donald Trump demanded Iran's "unconditional surrender" on Friday, a dramatic escalation of his demands a week into the war he launched alongside Israel, which could make it more difficult to negotiate a swift end to it. Israel has intervened in Lebanon repeatedly over decades, most recently in a campaign that weakened Hezbollah in 2024. But the ferocity of Friday's strikes had little precedent even in the long history of war in the Lebanese capital. We're going to have to choose that person," Trump said on Thursday in a telephone interview with Reuters. At least 1,230 people have been killed in Iran since the US and Israel launched strikes on February 28, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society.

Source: The Telegraph March 06, 2026 15:25 UTC