Middle East Crisis: Trump Issues Fresh Warning to Iran Amid Rising Tensions

Vice President JD Vance instantaneously would become commander in chief and have authority for any retaliation.

His remarks came as funeral ceremonies for Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saw mourners holding posters and banners calling for the deaths of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Both sides dialed up the rhetoric after exchanges of fire this week rocked an interim agreement aimed at ending the Middle East war, which broke out in late February with massive US-Israeli strikes that killed former supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

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