Politics

Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender”, as Israel continued its bombardment of the country. As Tehran’s residents began fleeing the city, Mr Trump publicly toyed with the idea of America joining military action. He also said that America knows the location of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, but will not “take him out…for now”. Israel’s devastating strikes on Iran have killed a number of senior regime officials, including General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces. The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and several other high-ranking IRGC commanders were also killed, as were at least nine nuclear scientists. Israel struck ballistic-missile bases, air-defences and nuclear facilities.