Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

Iran and Israel exchanged more deadly missile strikes overnight Friday after Israel mainly attacked Iranian nuclear and military targets one day earlier.

Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he knew all about Israel’s plan ahead of time, that he wasn’t given a mere “heads-up.”

In sweeping attacks that started early Friday, Israel has struck at the regime in Tehran, targeting Iranian nuclear and military assets. The Israeli strikes have killed more than 70 people, including four top security chiefs, and damaged Iran’s main nuclear site at Natanz.

Iran's top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that Israel's strikes on his country were undermining nuclear talks with the United States. Araghchi, in a call with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,

National security experts warn that Israel's attack on Iran shows why Chinese land and asset purchases in the U.S. pose a significant threat to American security.

Iranian officials have repeatedly denied seeking a nuclear weapon. The United States and Iran have held five rounds of negotiations toward achieving an agreement that would limit Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, with a sixth round of talks scheduled for Sunday.

The president who promised to easily and quickly bring about peace has now found himself accounting for yet another major escalation. President Donald Trump had publicly discouraged Israel from striking Iran in recent days,

Fox News’ Alex Hogan and Mark Meredith report on the strikes between Israel and Iran, and reaction from the United States. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Brent Sadler joins ‘Fox News Live’ to analyze the future of Iran’s nuclear program.

Mollie Hemingway, the editor in chief of The Federalist, warned that an escalation with Iran would cost Trump “really polling support that would be permanent,” and it would be seen as a “powerful gift” to the president’s “political enemies who still seek to destroy him and the movement he leads.”