Iranian protesters hold up posters showing the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left in the posters, and the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini in a protest following the U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran US Israel News LIVE Updates:US President Donald Trump Sunday suggested that if Iran’s current regime can’t “Make Iran Great Again,” a regime change may not be off the table. “It’s not politically correct to say ‘Regime Change,’ but if they can’t do it—why not? MIGA!!!” he posted on Truth Social.
Oil prices surged: Benchmark Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) jumped over 3 per cent, reaching $81.40 and $78.40 per barrel respectively, both hitting five-month highs, after a US strike on three nuclear sites in Iran. In equity markets, S&P 500 futures dipped 0.5 per cent, while Nasdaq futures fell 0.6 per cent. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.5 per cent, and Japan’s Nikkei slid 0.9 per cent.
Iran’s response to US strikes: Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani on Sunday told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that “Iran had repeatedly warned the warmongering US regime to refrain from stumbling into this quagmire” and the Iranian military will now decide the “timing, nature and scale of Iran’s proportionate response” to US strikes on Iran’s nuclear programme, as reported by AP. He also accused Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of succeeding in getting Trump to do the West’s “dirty work” and hijacking US foreign policy by “dragging the US into yet another costly and baseless war.”
