New York Times: “The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran risks redirecting world attention away from the war in Ukraine. But it has also given Kyiv an opportunity to use its hard-won expertise and advanced technology on a new front.”

“Kyiv is hoping to score points with the United States in American-brokered peace talks.”

President Trump told the New York Post that he has “a plan” to tackle surging oil prices caused by the war with Iran after the cost per barrel briefly neared $120.

Said Trump: “I have a plan for everything, okay?” 

He added: “I have a plan for everything. You’ll be very happy.”

President Trump “left open the prospect of acquiring Iranian oil as the U.S. proceeds with a war officials have said is aimed at depriving Iran of a nuclear weapon and defanging it so that it no longer poses a threat to the U.S. or Middle East neighbors,” NBC News reports.

Trump said he did not want to discuss whether he would like the U.S. to seize Iranian oil, but added: “Certainly people have talked about it.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Iran of “trying to hold the world hostage” by attacking other Middle Eastern nations even as the United States and Israel continue to bomb Iranian sites, Punchbowl News reports.

Said Rubio: “They are attacking neighboring countries, their energy infrastructure, their civilian population, they’re attacking embassies.”

He added: “This is a terrorist government, this is a terroristic regime. And we are seeing them conduct terrorism using nation-state elements. Using weapons like missiles and one-way attack drones. And the objective of this mission is to destroy their ability to continue to do that. We are well on the way to achieving that mission.”

“A top Iranian official has warned that the government is prepared for a long war with the US and signaled that it is willing to continue attacking Gulf countries in an effort to persuade them to convince President Donald Trump to step back from the conflict,” CNN reports.

Jon Hoffman: “This is a war of choice—Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States, and the White House is now scrambling to devise a strategy for a war already underway and proving more difficult than anticipated.”

“The war will likely escalate as Iran digs in and hawkish voices push Trump toward maximalist—and largely unachievable—aims. By setting this crisis in motion, the Trump administration is repeating the same failures that have long defined US Middle East policy. Absent a course correction, the United States is on the path to another forever war.”