Many of Iran’s missile launch sites ‘have still not been located by US forces’US forces have been unable to locate all of Iran’s missile launch sites, ­officials have admitted. Some officials have suggested that Mr Trump and his advisers misjudged how Iran would respond. US officials told Axios that snubbing the proposal was one of the biggest tactical miscalculations by the Trump administration. The US news website reported that during a White House meeting in August, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky offered Mr Trump low-cost interceptor drones. The waterway had been effectively closed for tankers since the Iran war began when the post was published, causing chaos for global oil markets.

Source: Irish Independent March 12, 2026 08:51 UTC