The Latest: Jerusalem under fire as Trump says fighting in Iran could last '4 weeks or so'

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The Latest: Jerusalem under fire as Trump says fighting in Iran could last ‘4 weeks or so’

The Associated Press
March 1, 2026, 6:47 PM

U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran continued for a second day on Sunday after the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threw the future of the Islamic Republic into uncertainty and raised the risk of regional instability. ... There were explosions in Tehran on Sunday night as Israel said it was taking its attacks to the “heart” of Iran’s capital.

Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones at Israel and at U.S. military installations around the Gulf, and also at the Saudi capital and the global business hub of Dubai. Earlier Sunday, Iran selected a 66-year-old cleric to join the three-member leadership council that will govern the country until a new supreme leader is selected.

A senior White House official says that “new potential leadership” in Iran has suggested they are open for talks with the United States. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations, said President Donald Trump says he is “eventually” willing to talk, but for now the military operation “continues unabated.”

Trump told The Atlantic in an interview on Sunday that he planned to speak with Iran’s new leadership. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” he said, declining to comment on the timing.

{snip}

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

1. Well, that'll send the price of a barrel into orbit.

Probably precious metals as well.

[Chasstev365]

2. Oh, it will all be over by Christmas

That was said at the beginning of so many brutal wars...

[struggle4progress]

6. If it's too long, maybe at the end of the tunnel we'll hand Donny and his gang

Last edited Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:40 PM - Edit history (1)

over to an international tribunal of America's allies

[Tetrachloride]

3. Putin said Ukraine invasion would be short

[Cha]

8. Not that it's the same... but what did Cheney

say about the "Mission Accomplished" War on Iraq?

Oh yeah.. "..In its last throes.. " .. about 4ooo Military were killed.

[newdeal2]

4. Where the hell did he pull that timeline from?

Quick and easy turns into two weeks turns into four…

He is just making it up as he goes along.

[Cha]

9. Yes, it is the Lying Gaslit PEDO.

[Turbineguy]

5. Four weeks where nobody will mention Epstein

Well, not very often anyway.

[Enter stage left]

7. Right! And Russia was going to take Kiev in 3 days.

Now do you understand why we call you The Stupid Fuck?"

[moniss]

10. Their "new potential leadership" likely means

that ghoulish son of the last Shah.

[haele]

11. That's who the Saudis and the oil companies want...

But the Iranian people?
They just don't want to end up under a brutal police state, an unfeeling Oligarchy sending their wealth and resources out of the country, or Taliban style dictatorship.
I don't see a better way coming out of this situation for them any time soon.

[David__77]

12. It's preposterous and they're busy in Beverly Hills, not fighting for power.

[moniss]

14. The son stepped forward several weeks ago saying he was

ready to come and lead "his people". Since he hasn't been there for about 48 years I don't think the Iranians in Iran feel like they are "his people". But he is the darling of the billionaires because they feel he can be counted on to do as he is told. Mostly for making oil deals where the percentage to Iran is real, real low.

[Prairie Gates]

13. "It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

"It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

- Donald Rumsfeld, February 2003

(US combat troops would be more or less withdrawn from Iraq in 2011, a full eight years later).