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U.S. and Israel Draw Up Plans for Renewed Strikes on Iran After Midterm Elections

Renewed hostilities might not be any more successful than the war’s first phase, and President Trump has repeatedly canceled plans for a return to major combat.

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A site of a U.S.-Israeli airstrike in Tehran in March.
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Netanyahu Called Off Iran Strikes After Trump Claimed Progress in Nuclear Talks, Officials Say

Multiple officials said that the president told Israel’s leader that the United States and Iran were within days of a breakthrough that would clear the way for talks on a long-term nuclear deal.

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President Trump has repeatedly said that the United States and Iran were coming close to a deal to end the conflict.
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Trump Sends Tougher Peace Proposals Back to Iran, Officials Say

His changes to the proposed deal were potentially designed to speed up the process by putting pressure on Iran to accept the current framework, one official said.

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A woman holds a photo of Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader, at a recent memorial ceremony in Tehran.
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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader

An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

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Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran registering as a candidate in the presidential election in Tehran in 2024.
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U.S. Rescues Missing Air Force Officer Whose Fighter Jet Was Downed by Iran

An Air Force officer of a F-15E Strike Eagle shot down on Friday by Iran spent a day in hostile territory with little more than a pistol for protection.

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U.S. Air Force personnel last month at an air base in Britain.
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One Rescued From U.S. Jet Shot Down in Iran, U.S. Officials Say

The fate of the plane’s crew was unclear, as American officials scrambled to mount a search and rescue operation.

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A U.S. Air Force F-15E fighter jet taking off from RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom in 2020.
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Iran’s Fractured Leadership Is Struggling to Coordinate, Officials Say

As leaders are killed and replaced, Iranian negotiators may not know what their government is willing to concede in any negotiations.

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Many senior Iranian leaders and their deputies have been killed, and those who survive have had difficulty communicating.
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Israel Thought It Could Spur Rebellion Inside Iran. That Hasn’t Happened.

President Trump’s hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising against Iran’s theocratic government could bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed.

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The aftermath of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran on Saturday. Three weeks into the war, American and Israeli intelligence assessments have concluded that the theocratic Iranian government is weakened but intact.
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Entering War’s Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices

As the conflict with Iran expands and intensifies, President Trump’s options — to fight on, or to move toward declaring victory and pulling back — both carry deeply problematic consequences.

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President Trump has wrestled publicly with his stay-or-leave options, sometimes suggesting that the war is all but won and at others seeming to acknowledge that there is still heavy fighting ahead.
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In War’s First Week, a Punishing Military Campaign With No Coherent Endgame

The U.S. and Israel have pounded Iran’s leadership and undercut its defense capabilities, but President Trump has offered wildly different explanations for what he hopes to achieve.

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A huge plume of smoke has rose in the sky after US-Israel airstrikes in the west of Tehran, on Tuesday.
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Iran Made Secret Outreach After Strikes, Highlighting Trump’s Challenge

President Trump is beginning to consider what sort of Iranian government might come next, as the U.S.-Israeli assault continues.

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Black smoke over Tehran following airstrikes on Tuesday.
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The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top Iranian officials came after close intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel, according to people familiar with the operation.

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A satellite image shows black smoke rising and heavy damage at the compound of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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As Trump Weighs Possible Iran Strikes, U.S. Military Moves Into Place

President Trump has given no indication that he has made a decision about how to proceed, as diplomatic talks continue.

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The U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, seen here in the North Sea last year, is making its way toward the Middle East.
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War Threats and Ambiguous Evidence: Trump Again Confronts Iran

There is little sign that Iran has made significant progress in reconstituting its nuclear program, leaving questions about the timing and motive behind potential plans for further attacks.

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Little has happened in the past six months to indicate that Iran has made significant strides toward rebuilding its capacity to enrich nuclear fuel and fashion a nuclear warhead.
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