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While telling the world he hadn’t decided, Donald Trump had already green-lit a military strike on Iran, and the bombers were already airborne.

The US has not publicly called for regime change in this Israel-Iran conflict, but over 70 years ago, it played a key role in ousting Tehran’s government.

Although both sides have publicly criticised each other for years, the sharper, more violent conflict between Israel and Iran was mostly covert — until now.

The dramatic and complex case became a tabloid and true-crime fixture, drawing national attention and throngs of supporters for each side.

Iran’s hardened, underground nuclear sites are impervious to most conventional weapons — except the US-made 30,000-pound, deep-penetrating bomb.

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Part love story, part celebrity spectacle, Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster’s backstage connection is now playing out on the world’s biggest stage.

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Israel and the US are ratcheting up pressure on Iran, sparking fresh speculation that Washington could be preparing for a more direct intervention alongside its closest Middle East ally.

THE WASHINGTON POST: The US is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump is set to realise, as he turns 79, one of his long-standing ambitions: to host a major military parade in Washington.

‘I have never seen this many dead bodies in my life,’ said Mahesh Desai, a 39-year-old local. ‘It was all on fire when I came to the site.’

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has declared Iran in breach of its nonproliferation obligations for the first time in 20 years.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern is the subject of a new film, Prime Minister, in theatres Friday, which aims to humanise politicians.

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