Trump to hold news conference and give updates on Iran

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Washington — President Trump volition talk to reporters astatine his Miami-area play nine astatine astir 5:30 p.m. connected Monday, his archetypal ceremonial quality league since the U.S. and Israel began strikes connected Iran.

The president is expected to springiness an update astir the concern successful Iran and instrumentality questions, the White House said.

Earlier Monday afternoon, the president told CBS News elder White House analogous Weijia Jiang: "I deliberation the warfare is precise complete, beauteous much." He besides said he's considering "taking … over" the Strait of Hormuz, arsenic shipping successful the cardinal lipid conduit grinds virtually to a halt.

The president made those remarks the aforesaid day the Department of Defense posted connected X, "We person Only Just Begun to Fight" and "no mercy."

A time earlier Mr. Trump's quality conference, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was installed arsenic Iran's caller ultimate leader, a improvement the president is "not happy" about, arsenic helium told Fox News. Khamenei is the lad of the precocious person killed successful the U.S.-Israeli operation.

The president's remarks to reporters volition besides travel aft markets close. Markets are down since the warfare began implicit a week ago, and lipid prices person jumped — though large banal indexes closed successful affirmative territory connected Monday aft the terms of lipid dropped implicit the people of the day, paring backmost a double-digit surge earlier Monday.

So far, 7 American work members are dormant successful the U.S.-Iran war.

Mr. Trump, who has taken questions and a fig of calls from reporters successful the past 9 days since the warfare began, said on Truth Social he's attending a fundraiser lawsuit for House Speaker Mike Johnson earlier the quality conference. The Trump National Doral play nine is hosting the Republican Members Issues Conference, an yearly retreat for legislature Republicans arsenic they crippled for the November midterm elections.