Trump says US ready to strike Iran ‘anytime we want’

US President Donald Trump says, after talks with Qatar’s prime minister and top mediator in the White House, that the Gulf country would rather see a peaceful solution with Iran, but the US is “ready to go ‌anytime we want” with strikes.
Iran says it’s impossible to move towards peace unless the US lifts its naval blockade, releases seized assets and lifts sanctions, accusing Washington of reneging on its commitments.
Diplomatic efforts to resolve Iran war ongoing after Trump, Qatari PM talks
We know that the meeting lasted only about 45 minutes and that there were no breakthroughs, according to the White House.

But it doesn’t mean that any sort of attempt to try and end the war is over. Far from it.

What we know is that the Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani was visiting Donald Trump, hand carrying a proposal, following his meetings in Tehran last week.

This proposal is an idea put forward by Iran to try to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and to see that the United States ends its blockade.

In turn, there would be a lifting of some of those frozen funds that the US has ensured Iran doesn’t have access to.

This would pave the way for the negotiation of the remaining enriched uranium that is still in Iran.

This meeting was closed press, which means that it is so sensitive no cameras were invited into these discussions.

Emerging from that, there was no announcement of an acceptance by the US of this proposal. Having said that, there was no rejection either.
Republican lawmaker says Pentagon chief executed ‘unlawful orders’ when launching war on Iran
Representative Thomas Massie, the Republican lawmaker who filed articles of impeachment against Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, has accused the defence secretary of knowingly executing “unlawful orders” by going to war with Iran without congressional authorisation.

Massie said Hegseth’s actions amount to “high crimes and misdemeanours” and his leadership at the Pentagon “thus warrants impeachment”.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson criticised the move towards impeachment as he opened the chamber, saying: “Impeaching a Cabinet secretary right now, especially the Department of War, in the middle of hostilities abroad would be a terrible look.”

The US attack in February that struck a girls’ school in southern Iran was “not an isolated targeting failure divorced from the conduct of the Secretary of Defense”, Massie said.

“Hegseth wilfully and systemically refused to comply with laws and directives mandated for the protection of civilians during the commission of armed conflict,” he added.