As shares rose and oil prices fell, Iran’s foreign minister said there was no formal deal but said Iran would stop if Israel did and referred to the war in the past tense. “The military operations of our powerful Armed Forces to punish Israel for its aggression continued until the very last minute,

President Donald Trump has long advocated for keeping the US out of Middle Eastern wars. By joining Israel’s offensive against Iran, he is making a dramatic geopolitical u-turn.

President Donald Trump took the U.S. into war with Iran on Saturday, raising the specter that the nation would return to the bloody Middle East entanglements of the early 2000s. U.S. planes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran,