Iran’s currency fell to a new record low on Tuesday, with traders in Tehran exchanging more than 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar in a stark reflection of how the war in the Middle East has steadily eroded the Iranian economy.

Speaking from the Oval Office, the president said the United States is going to win the war with Iran and that it will happen one way or the other — language that rules out any return to how things stood before February.

High energy costs at the pump and strategic setback for US in the Iran war will likely cost Trump in the midterms.

A war with Iran may conclude without defeating the force that matters most: the mullah regime in Tehran. If the Islamic Republic survives, it will emerge more radicalized, more repressive and more dangerous than before. Military success alone, therefore, cannot define victory. The “day after” could be more consequential than the war itself.

The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, starting a monthslong war that spread to neighboring countries and rocked global markets. By Yeganeh Torbati Aaron Boxerman Steven Erlanger and Eric Nagourney Anyone who imagined that reports in recent ...

WASHINGTON - Six months after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the war that President Donald Trump has called a "little excursion" has become a deeply unpopular stalemate that threatens to derail his presidency. Iran has not ...

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