Senior Pentagon officials confronted following VP Vance's scathing rebuke of the war in Iran | LIVE BLOG
Asked whether Vance was right, Trump said: “I think it’s largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short term”
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Iran’s IRGC says two tankers and a tugboat caught fire in Strait of Hormuz after using “unauthorized routes”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said two oil tankers and a tugboat caught fire in separate incidents after attempting to use unauthorized routes through the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC said one tanker struck a mine while attempting to cross a passage south of the strait and another one caught fire while exiting the route in the eastern part of the waterway.
A tugboat that approached the second vessel to help extinguish the fire also caught fire, the IRGC said.
Pentagon in “uncertainty” after midterm losses; Iran war fallout raises questions over who Trump will hold accountable - report
Senior Pentagon officials were confronted Wednesday by how the unpopular Iran war spelled disaster for the Trump administration in the midterms, as Democrats seized power in Congress and questions arose over whether President Donald Trump will hold someone accountable, The Washington Post reported.
This report follows a scathing rebuke of the war by Vice President JD Vance in which he blamed the Iran war for Republican midterm losses in a lengthy social media post
The post was followed by questions at the Pentagon over whether Trump will hold someone accountable.
Democrats immediately set their sights on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but people close to the administration questioned whether Trump might instead dismiss Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or Adm. Brad Cooper, who has overseen the war.
People familiar with the military advice given to Trump said that at different times all three men gave him overly rosy assessments and were not clear enough about the risks and costs to the United States.