Iran War Update 1

Events from the last 24 hours

The US-Israeli attack on Iran is fast-moving and it’s not easy to stay on top of the volume of interconnected events. Here’s what happened in the last 24 hours…

• At the start of the day, Trump said he wasn’t ruling out sending ground troops into Iran. At the end of the day, he said he didn’t think there’d be a need for ground troops, just part of the erratic US approach to the war. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has 190,000 fighting men and 600,000 reserves.

• The State Department told Americans to evacuate the entire Middle East. Airports in many countries are closed. No help is being provided.

  

• The number of US service members seriously wounded in the Iran War now stands at 18, up from the five reported yesterday. Four are dead.

• Trump, Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff Dan Caine all told the public to brace for more American casualties.

• Three F-15E Strike Eagles were downed over Kuwait by friendly fire.

• The US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was hit by Iranian drones. US officials claimed it was empty at the time.

• Trump told NewsNation “you’ll find soon what the retaliation will be for the attack on the US embassy in Riyadh and for the US service members killed.”

• Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth held a bizarre press conference packed with lies. The most notable being: “We didn’t start this war. But under President Trump, we are finishing it.”

• Bahrain Ambassador to the US Abdulla R Al-Khalifa: “Bahrain’s air defences intercepted 70 Iranian ballistic missiles and 59 drones targeting the Kingdom. Attacks on civilian sites are a grave violation of sovereignty and international law. We reserve full right to respond.”

• Keir Starmer said: “The use of British bases is limited to the agreed defensive purposes. We are not joining the US and Israeli offensive strikes.”

• The oil tanker MKD Fium was hit by a drone boat in the Gulf of Oman, fifty nautical miles north of Muscat.