LIVE: War Widens; Trump Backs Iranian Insider for Leadership

The spiraling nature of the war has raised questions about when and how it would end, and the Trump administration has given various objectives

By :  Agencies
Update: 2026-03-04 01:00 GMT
Rocket trails are seen in the sky above the city of Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, amid a fresh barrage of Iranian missile attacks ( HAZEM BADER / AFP)

U.S. President Donald Trump said “someone from within” Iran’s government might be best suited to take power once the U.S.-Israeli war on the country ends.

His remarks came four days into a war that has killed hundreds, nearly all of them in Iran , as well as many of the country’s top leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei .
Although Tehran has kept up its retaliatory missile and drone strikes against Israel and across the Gulf — disrupting travel and driving up oil prices — the pace of Iranian attacks appears to be slowing.  However the conflict has also spread to Lebanon, where Iran-backed Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel, prompting Israeli strikes in Beirut and additional troop deployments to southern Lebanon.
The spiraling nature of the war has raised questions about when and how it would end, and the Trump administration has given various objectives.


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