As the Israel-Iran conflict enters its fifth day, US President Donald Trump has escalated his rhetoric with a direct threat to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. -In a Truth Social post, Trump warned that while the US would not “take out” Khamenei “for now,

In the span of about eight hours, President Donald Trump went from suggesting a nuclear deal with Iran remained “achievable” to urging Tehran’s 9.5 million residents to flee for their lives as he cut his visit to the international G7 summit short to return to Washington for urgent talks with his national security team.

Donald Trump has claimed that the US knows where Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding but said he would not be killed "for now." It comes as the Pentagon is moving more fighter jets to the region and is extending the deployment of air assets already in the Middle East.