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.

Iran said it had conveyed to Washington that it will respond firmly to the United States if it becomes directly involved in Israel's military campaign, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Wednesday.

Trump calls for Iran's 'unconditional surrender', tells Tehran to evacuate as air war rages on. Israel plans to destroy Fordow nuclear site.

Israeli strikes on Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan pose little regional radiation risk but could release plumes of toxic chemicals, experts said.

Vice President J.D. Vance tried to thread the needle. “Sometimes we’re going to have overlapping interests,” Ohio’s junior Republican senator said of the United States and Israel,

An Iranian official warned that any U.S. military involvement in the conflict with Israel would risk 'all-out war.' Fox's Chenue Her has more.