TEHRAN, IRAN: The president of Iran has has said that the Islamic Republic has declared a total war against the United States, Israel, and Europe, signaling a sharp escalation in rhetoric amid deepening tensions with the West. The warning comes as Tehran faces mounting international pressure and scrutiny over its nuclear ambitions.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran was engaged in an unprecedented “all-out war” with the US, Europe and Israel as US President Donald Trump prepared to meet Israel’s prime minister in Washington.

Netanyahu is expected to pitch President Trump on a plan to launch new strikes against Tehran at a high-stakes meeting Monday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says that the United States, Israel and Europe are waging a “full-fledged war” against his country.

Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian declared Iran is engaged in a “total war” against the United States, Israel and Europe in remarks published Saturday accusing Western powers of surrounding Iran politically,

If a U.S.-Venezuela war break out, that could sap the U.S. military’s ability to readily surge air and naval assets into the Middle East in another Israel-Iran war.

The Post reported that Israel and the US conspired to leak stories that tensions were high between US President Donald Trump and his Israeli counterpart to lull Iran into a false sense of security as Tehran was negotiating with the US.

Iran has seized a foreign oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The Revolutionary Guard naval forces captured the vessel, which was carrying some 25,000 barrels of smuggled fuel, according to a report Friday by the official IRNA news agency.

Iranians deported from the United States will return to their home country in the coming days, Iran's foreign ministry announced on Sunday, Dec. 7, in the second such deportation under President Donald Trump's contentious immigration crackdown. "In the ...