Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that any attack by the United States would ignite a "regional war" in the Middle East, according to the Tasnim news agency. Khamenei's statement, delivered to a crowd at his compound in Tehran, represented his most direct threat since the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group arrived in the Persian Gulf.
The warning followed President Trump's threats to intervene militarily in response to Iran's crackdown on recent nationwide protests. The Ayatollah's comments, as reported by CBS News, underscored the escalating tensions between the two nations.
In other news, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, whose party won the 2024 election, stated that a political transition away from the remnants of the Maduro regime is "unstoppable," according to "Face the Nation." Machado, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, told moderator Margaret Brennan that positive changes made by the interim government are due to pressure from the Trump administration but may not hold legal weight. She added that the U.S. military operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro "sent a clear message" to members of his regime.
Meanwhile, former Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn said that President Trump's nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Kevin Warsh, is "very highly qualified" and will "take the Fed back to its traditional" norms. Cohn, now IBM Vice Chairman, made the comments on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." Mr. Trump announced on Truth Social that he had nominated Kevin Warsh to serve as the next chair of the Federal Reserve Board, writing that he has "no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best." Warsh served on the Fed board of governors between 2006 and 2011.
Cohn also discussed the economy, addressing President Trump's editorial in The Wall Street Journal arguing that current economic success is due to his tariff policies. The legality of some of those tariffs are currently being debated before the Supreme Court.
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