Ex-counterterrorism chief Joe Kent claims President Donald Trump was positioned to strike a better Iran deal than the JCPOA before the current Middle East conflict.

“They are weeks, a small number of weeks, away to enrich that to weapons-grade uranium,” Wright said when asked about Iran's nuclear program by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Wednesday. “There’s still a weaponization process that happens after that, but they’re quite close.”

Iran’s oil storage has filled up and Tehran will need to shut down oil production, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. Following the U.S. blockade on Iranian shipments, the conflict has hinged on a key question: how long before Iran runs out of room to store the oil it can no longer export.

GOP Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett and Thomas Massie voted to make Trump get congressional authorization for any more military operations.

Brad Cooper, the head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, is testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday as a tenuous cease-fire with Iran continues. Admiral Cooper, whose command covers the Middle East,

The announcement came just a day after the U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee revealed that Israel had sent Iron Dome air-defense weapons and personnel to operate them to the UAE.

Admiral Brad Cooper of U.S. Central Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee that U.S. forces have destroyed more than 90% of Iran's inventory of 8,000 naval mines.