{"id":33907,"date":"2025-06-17T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-claim-about-control-of-the-skies-over-iran-raises-questions-about-u-s-involvement-in-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:23:49","slug":"trumps-claim-about-control-of-the-skies-over-iran-raises-questions-about-u-s-involvement-in-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-claim-about-control-of-the-skies-over-iran-raises-questions-about-u-s-involvement-in-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s claim about &#8220;control of the skies over Iran&#8221; raises questions about U.S. involvement in conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>President Trump declared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114699514822488706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media<\/a> post Tuesday, &#8220;We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran&#8221;<strong> <\/strong>\u2014 a claim that departed from earlier U.S. statements that Israel&#8217;s offensive against Iran was being carried out without U.S. involvement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News has reached out to the White House to request clarification on what the president meant when he said &#8220;we&#8221; have control over the skies of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump added, &#8220;Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, \u00a0 but it doesn&#8217;t compare to American-made, conceived, and manufactured &#8216;stuff.&#8217; Nobody does it better than the good ol&#8217; USA.&#8221; The Israeli military is equipped with aircraft and weapons systems purchased from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has been helping Israel fend off Iranian counterstrikes since Israel began its strikes on Iran last week, but has said <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/state-deptartment-cable-embassies-us-not-involved-in-unilateral-israeli-strikes-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the U.S. &#8220;is not involved<\/a><\/span> in Israel&#8217;s unilateral action against targets in Iran.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump began a meeting Tuesday afternoon in the White House Situation Room with his national security team on the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-real-end-iran-nuclear-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Israel-Iran conflict<\/a><\/span>, according to multiple sources.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on Truth Social, the president also used menacing language about Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s supreme leader. He said in a post that the U.S. knows where Khamenei is, but isn&#8217;t going to kill him \u2014 &#8220;at least not for now.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know exactly where the so-called &#8216;Supreme Leader&#8217; is hiding,&#8221; Mr. Trump wrote. &#8220;He is an easy target, but is safe there \u2014 We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don&#8217;t want missiles shot at civilians or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!<\/p>\n<p>A minute later, he added, &#8220;UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House has also not provided any additional information about the president&#8217;s comments about Khamenei&#8217;s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News reported on Sunday that President Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-netanyahu-rejected-israeli-plan-kill-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">opposed<\/a><\/span> an Israeli plan to kill Khamenei.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined to rule out the possibility of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/israel-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-regime-change-what-it-would-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">targeting Iran&#8217;s leader<\/a><\/span>. Asked by ABC News in an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/israel-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-regime-change-what-it-would-mean\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">interview<\/a><\/span> that aired Monday if Israel would try to kill Khamenei, Netanyahu said only that his country was &#8220;doing what we need to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu denied that such a move would be escalatory, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to escalate the conflict, it&#8217;s going to end the conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance suggested in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\/status\/1934992910153294210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on X<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday that the president &#8220;may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment,&#8221; adding, &#8220;That decision ultimately belongs to the president.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vance said that &#8220;people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy&#8221; and articulated the administration&#8217;s concern about Iran&#8217;s uranium enrichment activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use,&#8221; which is about 3% to 5%. The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a recent report that Iran is the only non-nuclear weapon state in the world that is <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-nuclear-proposal-iran-israel-mulls-military-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">producing and accumulating uranium<\/a><\/span> enriched to 60%.<\/p>\n<p>Vance also said in his post, &#8220;I can assure you that [the president] is only interested in using the American military to accomplish American people&#8217;s goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-cuts-g7-trip-short-israel-iran-middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">left the G7 economic summit<\/a><\/span> in Canada ahead of schedule to focus on events in the Middle East. He arrived in D.C. early Tuesday after flying back from Calgary on Air Force One overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/olivia-rinaldi\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Olivia  Rinaldi<\/a>, <\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/margaret-brennan\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Margaret  Brennan<\/a>, <\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/james-laporta\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">James  LaPorta<\/a> and <\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/jennifer-jacobs\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jennifer  Jacobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- 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