Donald Trump has previously warned Iran of further escalation as the situation between the country and Israel begins to spiral, and now, the American embassy has been hit.

Israel’s surprise bombardment of Iran’s nuclear and military facilities last week (June 13) has resulted in the nation firing back at the country.

This has meant both Israel and Iran have been trading strikes, ultimately increasing tensions and fears of instability in the region.

Donald Trump has expressed full support of Israel’s actions and warned Iran to avoid further loss of life and agree to a deal.

The President has been calling on the country to sign a nuclear deal with the group of world powers known as the P5+1 – which includes the US, UK, Germany, France, China, and Russia, who’ve all been in negotiation with Iran in regards to its nuclear program since 2006.

A view of a damaged building in the Iranian capital, Tehran, following an attack, on June 13, 2025 (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Writing on Truth Social, Trump said: “I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done.”

Iran recently conducted more strikes on Israel in the early hours of Monday (June 16), and this resulted in damage to the US embassy in the country.

The US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said the embassy had suffered ‘minor damage’ amid the barrage of missiles on Monday.

Writing on Twitter, he said: “Some minor damage from concussions of Iranian missile hits near Embassy Branch… but no injuries to US personnel.”

He added that the embassy would remain closed on Monday and instructed the Americans that are in Israel to check the website for updates, including the reopening of airports and overall travel advice.

The US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is now reportedly heading towards the Middle East as Trump warned of further destruction if the issue between the two nations is not swiftly resolved.

Explaining that the US was not explicitly involved in Israel’s initial attack, Trump clarified they would not take kindly to retaliation by Iran.

Trump has warned Iran of further escalation (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In a social media post he wrote: “The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran, tonight,” said Trump. “If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before.

“However, we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict!!!”

The details regarding how devastation the strikes has not yet been fully realized.

On June 14, Iran’s UN ambassador said 78 people had been killed and more than 320 wounded. In Israel, at least 10 people were killed in Iranian strikes overnight and into Sunday.

Figures for casualties in both countries are expected to rise as more information becomes available about the latest strikes.

Donald Trump revealed his plan to ramp up ICE deportations across the country and commended the work that had already been done in a new post online.

Protests have erupted around the US about the conduct of theImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the last few weeks, but Donald Trump has recently praised their actions.

In a new post on social media, the president made it clear he had plans to ramp up their actions issuing a warning to three cities.

He argued that those opposed to their behavior were ‘radical democrat politicians’ and insisted that he was focused on conducting ‘single largest mass deportation program in history’.

Donald Trump praised ICE despite the backlash they have received for their conduct(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The post addressed the backlash ICE has received recently and read: “Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History. Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People. ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

Speaking about how the program would intensify, he issued a warning to Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.

He also took shots at his critics and made a series of claims about their overall objections and intentions.

He said: “In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside.

Protests have erutped over ICE’s conduct and Trump said he will be stepping up their activities(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

“These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens. These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them.

“That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!”

The president closed by saying he and his administration were putting ‘every resource possible’ behind this effort.

He closed by saying that ICE, the FBI, DEA, ATF and a slew of other governmental departments have his full support and must now get the job done.

A US astronaut has highlighted a worrying reality as Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s fallout rages on.

Musk and Trump had been firm friends until recently, with the SpaceX founder previously being appointed as the head of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with the task of cutting federal budgets.

Musk remained in the role up until very recently, and it’s since then that things have turned sour between him and the President.

It all stems from the billionaire’s criticism of Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’, with some key parts of the hefty bill including no tax on Social Security, and no tax on overtime and tips.

The controversial legislation was passed by the House of Republicans at the end of May and is now on its way to the Senate.

Musk had since made his feelings about the bill very clear and branded it an ‘abomination’.

Musk and Trump’s bromance is well and truly over… (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Hitting back, Trump said he was ‘disappointed’ in the tech mogul and insisted that Musk knew the ins-and-outs of the bill before his departure from the administration – which Musk denied.

And the very public fallout has escalated even further from that point.

Since, Musk has not only accused Trump of being named in Jeffrey Epstein’s files – claims which The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has since dismissed – but the tech billionaire also threatened to retire SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which transports cargo and crew to the International Space Station (ISS).

This could have a detrimental impact on the current NASA crew in space – essentially leaving them stranded 250 miles from Earth.

NASA responded to Musk’s tweet in a statement to the BBC, where they said: “NASA will continue to execute upon the president’s vision for the future of space. We will continue to work with our industry partners to ensure the president’s objectives in space are met.”

Meanwhile, astronaut and engineer Emily Calandrelli – who was aboard BlueOrigin’s November space flight – has since taken to Instagram to share her thoughts on the situation, outlining the worrying reality.

Emily Calandrelli has detailed what Musk’s threat could look like for astronauts (YouTube/EmilyCalandrelli)

“This is tweet is ROCKING the space industry right now,” Calandrelli wrote, quoting Musk’s threat: “In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.”

Prior to Musk’s tweet, Trump has initially posted to Truth Social: “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”

Calandrelli went on to explain: “Terminating Musk’s contracts would mean the end of the SpaceX taxi (Dragon) to the ISS (currently the only ride we have for astronauts).”

This lead to a whole host of unanswered questions, as Calandrelli asked: “Will NASA decommission the ISS sooner rather than later?”

Musk was awarded a $843 million contract by NASA to help decommission the ISS in late 2030.

Calandrelli continued: “Will they doubly invest in Boeing to try to get Starliner working as an ISS taxi? Or is this just a mantrum (man tantrum) and when they cool off they’ll say ‘just kidding! I didn’t mean it!'”

Turns out, Calendrelli wasn’t wrong with her final thought.

Just hours after his rash announcement, Musk replied to an X user urging him to take a step back and ‘cool off for a couple of days,’ with a simple: “Good advice. OK, we won’t decommission Dragon.”

Crisis averted – at least for now.

Donald Trump has just signed another controversial executive order which would revoke student visas who are found protesting against Israel.

As the conflict between Israel and Palestine rages on, so does the President’s apparent crackdown on immigration and antisemitism.

Since Donald Trump‘s inauguration on Monday (January 20), executive orders and presidential pardons have been emerging from the White House under his orders.

Penn State University students in a pro-Palestine protest in October, 2024 (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The 78-year-old hasn’t hesitated in implementing his hardline anti-immigration agenda, having declared a ‘national emergency’ at the border, launched deportation flights, and looked at ways to remove US birthright from babies born in the States to non-registered US citizens or permanent residents.

He also signed the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, which makes it easier for federal officers to detain and deport illegal immigrants – with sights set on opening a new detention center in Guantanamo Bay to send some 30,000 of them there who cannot be deported to their home countries.

Now, Trump is also threatening to ‘deport’ foreign pupils on a student visa if they are caught protesting against Israel.

According to Reuters, Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday (January 29) with a pledge to deport non-US citizens that are college students on visas who took part in pro-Palestinian protests.

As of January 2025, it has been reported that over 47,000 people – 45,936 Palestinians and 1,706 Israelis – have been killed in the conflict, as per the UN.

The president has signed the order in a bid to tackle antisemitism in the US (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Some civil rights groups have noted a surge in hate crimes against Jewish and Muslim people, as well as against people of Middle Eastern descent, since the incident.

Trump’s order instructs the Justice Department to take ‘immediate action’ in prosecuting ‘terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews’ and combat the ‘explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and streets’.

Echoing the infamous line taken out of Liam Neeson’s Taken movie, Trump said in the fact sheet: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you.”

He also said he would ‘quickly’ cancel student visas ‘of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses’, claiming universities have become ‘infested with radicalism like never before’.

The order also instructs the department to investigate graffiti that could be seen as pro-Hamas and any incidents of intimidation on college grounds.

However, human rights groups and legal experts say it comes into conflict with constitutional free speech rights in the country, and could be met with some legal challenges.

Pro-Palestine supporters marched through Columbia University campus on the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said: “The First Amendment protects everyone in the United States, including foreign citizens studying at American universities.

“Deporting non-citizens on the basis of their political speech would be unconstitutional.”

Meanwhile, a large Muslim support group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said it would consider challenging the order in court if Trump attempts to implement it.

Department and agency leaders will be required to provide recommendations to the White House within 60 days over the proposal.

The notice also comes as Republicans have been threatening to punish colleges and pull billions of dollars of federal funding to those who are seen to be ‘allowing’ the protests, reports The Guardian.