Iran-US war latest: Tehran tells Trump ‘be careful not to be eliminated’newsline24

Gen. Caine says that the United States was carrying out strikes against Iranian mine-laying vessels.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters that in the first 10 days of the campaign against Iran, the US sank or destroyed more than 50 naval ships.

– Continue to destroy Iranian missile and drone capability.

– Continue to strike the Iranian navy, among other things, to constrain movements in the Strait of Hormuz.

– Working into Iran’s industrial and military base to prevent the regime from attacking US interests.

Ending his address, Pete Hegseth quotes Psalm 144:1. It includes the lines:

“Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.”

Hegseth is stressing that Trump ran against “nebulous”, endless wars.

He says the US is clearly winning with an “unbreakable will” to achieve its objectives “on our timeline”, without yet putting a figure on it.

Speaking now, Pete Hegseth says that “Iran stands alone – and they are losing”.

He reiterates objectives – now down to just three – focused on destroying Iran’s missile capability and military force.

“Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes yet,” he adds.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is due to hold a briefing on the Iran war around midday.

The Israeli military illegally used white phosphorus munitions over homes in the southern Lebanese town Yohmor on March 3, posing a threat to civilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday.

“The incendiary effects of white phosphorus can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering,” Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in the statement.

The rights group said it had verified eight images showing white phosphorus used over a residential part of Yohmor, and civil defense workers responding to fires in the area.

Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to Iran’s new supreme leader as the US renewed strikes on Tehran.

“I don’t believe he can live in peace,” the US president told Fox News, after Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his late father as the head of the Islamic Republic.

Trump told the outlet he was “not happy” with the choice of leader, but claimed the US military was seeing results “way beyond expectations” on the ground.

Trump had insisted he should have a say in the appointment of Iran’s leader, after the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a strike on the first day of the war.