President Donald Trump said U.S. forces on Friday “obliterated” targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, which is home to the primary terminal that handles the country’s oil exports. The speaker of the Iranian Parliament had warned that such strikes would provoke a new level of retaliation.

The United States is sending a 2,500-strong Marine expeditionary force to the Middle East, a U.S. official said, as President Donald Trump declared he would end the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran "when I feel it in my bones.

The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad urged all American citizens to leave Iraq immediately on Saturday after the embassy was attacked overnight for the second time since the war with Iran started. The warning said militias allied with Iran had carried out numerous attacks on targets associated with the United States,

President Trump's comments came shortly after he said that the U.S. military had conducted "one of the most power bombing raids" on a vital Iranian oil hub.

President Donald Trump threatened to strike oil infrastructure on the ‌island if Iran continues attacks that have halted most ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald Trump said he hoped “many countries” would send warships to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a shipping route that’s become a flash point in the Iran war, hours after U.S. forces bombed military targets in an area key to Iran’s oil industry.

The cities, also including Hickory, are under an “enhanced risk” of “numerous severe thunderstorms,” NWS meteorologists said Saturday.