Either President Donald Trump's administration is playing mind games with Tehran -- again -- or it's drawing a line in the sand that puts Iran's leadership (such as it is) in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't scenario.

Israeli officials have been pushing the United States to join the fray and use its huge bunker-busting bomb to crush Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Whether the U.S. gets more involved than it already is, some members of Congress from both parties argue, should not be up to the President.

President Donald Trump is under fierce pressure from inside Israel and his own MAGA base as he ponders the most fateful national security decision of either of his presidencies — whether to attempt a killer blow against Iran’s nuclear program.

More detail: Trump has said for days that Iran should make a nuclear deal with the U.S. But his message became more dire as he warned the Iranian capital's roughly 10 million residents to flee in the dead of night.

David Hogg has slammed any Democrat who supports deeper U.S. involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran, saying anyone who does "needs to be primaried." In a post on X, a former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, pointed to the cost of previous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Syria was once among the closest allies of the Islamic republic, but the new government resents Tehran’s support for the Assad regime and has pledged not to allow attacks on Israel from its territory.

President Donald Trump said the United will come down on Iran “at levels never seen before” if the Middle Eastern country attacks.

When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country’s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons and that the strikes were necessary to preempt that outcome.

The Israeli military says it has killed Ali Shadmani - Iran's most senior military commander, and "the closest figure to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei".