Trump, who had been planning the attack on Iran for months and had deployed two entire carrier strike groups to the area, claimed that his decision had come too rapidly to permit the timely evacuation of American citizens from the region. While the State Department urged U.S. citizens in a list of 14 countries and the Palestinian territories to leave at once, the U.S. embassy in Israel told Americans hoping to do precisely that that because the main airport was closed, they should take a bus to Egypt, and try to find a flight from there. Trump later in the afternoon announced in a social media post that the U.S. government would assume the financial liability risk of all shipping, regardless of nationality, in the Persian Gulf, including the Strait of Hormuz, the choke point at the southeastern end that Iran is trying to close off.
Author: HuffPost
Published at: 2026-03-03 23:10:30
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