Whether the U.S. gets more involved than it already is, some members of Congress from both parties argue, should not be up to the President.

Israeli forces stepped up bombing of Iranian cities, while Iran pierced Israeli air defences with a successful volleys of retaliatory missile strikes.

Donald Trump has left the G7 summit in Canada early to return to Washington as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensified. The US president said his exit had “nothing to do with a CeaseFire”, rejecting a statement from French President Emmanuel Macron,

Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.