Iran's supreme leader is ‘unconscious’ - Times

Rep. Yassamin Ansari said she is introducing articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and calling for the 25th Amendment to be considered against President Donald Trump over the war with Iran.

“Trump is escalating a devastating, illegal war, threatening massive war crimes and targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran,” Ansari wrote on social media. “In the last 48 hours alone, the rhetoric has crossed every line. Pete Hegseth is complicit.”

Ansari said she plans to introduce impeachment articles against Hegseth as the conflict intensifies and the United States threatens expanded strikes on Iranian infrastructure.

Ansari, whose parents are from Iran, has been among the most outspoken critics in Congress of the administration’s conduct of the war.

An adviser to Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said President Donald Trump has about “20 hours” to “submit to Iran” or face devastating consequences for US allies.

“Trump now has about 20 hours to either submit to Iran or his allies will return to the Stone Age,” Mahdi Mohammadi wrote on X.

“Iran has clearly won the war and will only accept an ending that stabilizes its achievements and creates a new security regime in the region,” he added. “We will not back down.”

The strikes were spread across 20 provinces, according to the Washington-based monitoring group Human Rights Activists News Agency, and represented the highest rate of attacks recorded in the past 10 days.

Among those killed were four children and two women, HRANA said, adding that the figures remain preliminary and could rise as more information emerges.

In total, the group documented at least 573 individual strikes across 215 separate incidents during the past day, a scale of bombardment that analysts say reflects a widening focus on strategic sectors of Iran’s economy.

Many of the attacks targeted infrastructure linked to the country’s core industries, including elements of Iran’s energy sector, HRANA reported.

The latest wave of strikes comes as President Trump has warned that the United States could launch sweeping new attacks on Iranian infrastructure if Tehran does not agree to negotiations by Tuesday evening.

In a statement Monday, the White House said Iran would be “sent back to the stone ages tomorrow night if they fail to engage in a serious way” with diplomatic efforts.

The war, now in its sixth week, has already inflicted heavy losses across the region.

Iranian authorities and monitoring groups estimate that more than 2,000 people have been killed inside Iran since the conflict began. Israeli officials say at least 26 people have been killed there, while missile and drone attacks launched by Iran have also caused dozens of casualties in the Persian Gulf countries.

With negotiations uncertain and attacks intensifying on both sides, Tuesday is shaping up as one of the most consequential moments in the conflict since it began more than five weeks ago.

Iran’s deputy minister for youth affairs said a nationwide symbolic event will see young people form human chains around power plants across the country.

Alireza Rahimi said the initiative, titled “Iran’s Youth Human Chain for a Bright Future,” aims to demonstrate national solidarity and support the armed forces’ actions against what officials describe as aggressors.

He said the event, organized with the participation of young people across the country, also seeks to convey a message from Iran’s youth to the international community and protest what he called "war crimes" by the United States and Israel.

The mission to rescue an American pilot downed in Iran showed how a tactical success can open wider strategic possibilities, sharpening debate over how far the United States may expand its footprint inside Iran.

The operation may have cost the United States several military assets, but it also forced Iran to reveal what it considers key terrain, according to former intelligence officer Michael Pregent.

“You can see movement of assets to protect key terrain that we may not have thought was key terrain but the regime does, and that gives an opportunity to exploit the situation," Pregent told Iran International.

That reading is echoed, though more cautiously, by Farzin Nadimi, a defense and military expert on Iran at the Washington Institute.

“It was a very successful operation… It showed real reach, real flexibility, and real results. But at the same time, it also showed… that the mission could very well have failed. And that would leave almost 100 troops in the middle of Iran," he told Iran International.

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