Iran and Israel launched new missile strikes at each other on Wednesday as the air war between the two longtime enemies entered a sixth day despite a call from U.S. President Donald Trump for Iran's unconditional surrender.

The Daily Telegraph says Trump is "'poised to join war on Iran". Also featured prominently is the news the UK government is set to delay the opening of the remaining leg of HS2. It describes the project's recent history as "£37bn of failure".

Israel claimed Iran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, which was a threat to their national security, and attacked their nuclear infrastructure on Friday (13 June). The operation killed several senior military figures and nuclear scientists, and as a response, Iran launched some 100 missiles at Israel.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump had directly threatened the Iranian Supreme Leader, saying he knew "where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding."

President Donald Trump has lashed out at former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, suggesting the conservative pundit is irrelevant now that he’s lost his television show. Days after Carlson accused the president of being “complicit” in the Israel-Iran conflict and suggested he had betrayed his MAGA base,

The US president issued his strongest threat to Iran on his platform Truth Social in which he hinted at wading into the Israel-Iran war.

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.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said he told the G7 leaders gathered in Canada that "diplomacy is now in a state of crisis" after the US president Donald Trump left the summit a day early to address the conflict in the Middle East.

A Democratic senator introduced legislation on Monday to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without Congress's authorization, as an escalating battle between Israel and Iran raised fears of a broader conflict.

Some longtime defenders of the president’s America First mantra are calling him out for weighing a greater U.S. role in the region.