WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - A complex tug-of-war inside the White House is driving U.S. President Donald Trump's shifting public statements on the course of the Iran war, as aides debate when and how to declare victory even as the conflict spreads across the Middle East.

An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack of a medical tech company, in what appears to be the first significant instance of Iran hacking an American company since the s

Iran’s new supreme leader did not appear in person to give his first statement Thursday, fuelling speculation that he was injured more seriously than Iranian officials have acknowledged. Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed in a defiant statement attributed to him and read by a state TV presenter.

President Trump stepped up his rhetoric against Iran, saying in a post on Truth Social that the U.S. is “totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran” militarily and economically. He warned the country’s leaders that the U.

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Iran's U.N. Ambassador said ⁠on ⁠Thursday Tehran was ⁠not going to close the Strait of Hormuz, ​but added that it was Iran's right to preserve the ‌security of the key shipping ‌route. Amir Saeid Iravani made his comments to reporters ⁠at the ⁠United Nations when asked about remarks by new Iranian ​supreme leader,

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