Day: February 18, 2026
Khamenei’s threat: Iran can hit US Navy so hard it ‘cannot get up again’
Iran’s supreme leader threatened US military power, rejected limits on Iran’s missile program, and criticized Washington after US aircraft carriers were sent to the region. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, February 17, 2026.(photo credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS )ByJAMES GENN FEBRUARY 17, 2026 14:46Updated: FEBRUARY 17, 2026 21:35 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened the US military, saying that the “strongest military force may be struck so hard that it cannot get up again,” in a post on X/Twitter on Tuesday. In reacting to the US sending aircraft carriers to …
JD Vance says Iran still won’t accept Donald Trump’s ‘red lines’ after Geneva talks
“If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, there are a lot of other regimes, some friendly, some not so friendly, who would get nuclear weapons after them,” Vance said. US Vice President JD Vance holds a joint press conference with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (not pictured), in Yerevan, Armenia, February 9, 2026.(photo credit: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/POOL)ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOFFEBRUARY 18, 2026 09:21Updated: FEBRUARY 18, 2026 09:55 US Vice President JD Vance said that Iran is not yet willing to acknowledge some of US President Donald Trump’s “red lines,” particularly those regarding the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, following Tuesday’s negotiations in Geneva. “In some ways it went …