As the Israel-Iran conflict enters its fifth day, US President Donald Trump has escalated his rhetoric with a direct threat to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. -In a Truth Social post, Trump warned that while the US would not “take out” Khamenei “for now,

Donald Trump has claimed that the US knows where Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding but said he would not be killed "for now." It comes as the Pentagon is moving more fighter jets to the region and is extending the deployment of air assets already in the Middle East.

As the five-day conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies, President Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, cutting short his G7 summit attendance to address the burgeoning crisis.