NATO’s Rutte says still assessing Iran missile type in Diego Garcia strike

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said a potential US special forces operation to secure Iran’s enriched uranium would be “very challenging.”

“I guess there will be a number of decoys … materials over there, which would make it very difficult,” Grossi said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation.

“I’m not saying it’s impossible … but it would be very challenging operation for sure,” he added.

US Senator Lindsey Graham urged President Donald Trump to continue the war against Iran for several more weeks and take control of Kharg Island.

“So here’s what I tell President Trump, keep it up for a few more weeks. Take Kharg Island … control that island,” Graham said in an interview with Fox News.

“(Trump) is closer than ever to delivering real freedom and lasting peace to the Iranian people,” he added in a post on X.

Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that entities holding US Treasury bonds could be considered legitimate targets alongside military bases.

“US treasury bonds are soaked in Iranians' blood,” Ghalibaf said in a post on X on Sunday.

“Purchase them, and you purchase a strike on your HQ and assets,” he added.

He said financial entities that finance the US military budget would be treated as legitimate targets.

Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez called for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the protection of energy infrastructure in the Middle East, warning that further escalation could trigger a global energy crisis, in a post on X on Sunday.

“The Government of Spain demands the opening of Hormuz and the preservation of all the energy sites of the Middle East,” Sanchez said.

“We stand at a global tipping point. Further escalation could trigger a long-term energy crisis for all humanity,” he added.

“The world should not pay the consequences of this war,” he said.

Israel’s ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said the war with Iran must continue until the country’s leadership is weakened to the point it has “no power” and the Iranian people can rise up and topple it.

“The campaign will end … when there is not an entity in Tehran that’s going to threaten the region,” Leiter said in an interview with CNN.

He said the goal was to degrade the leadership’s power to the point it has “no power,” adding that such an outcome could enable Iranians to rise up.

“I think that we need boots on the ground but they’ve got to be Iranian boots, and I think they’re coming,” he said.

Leiter said a popular uprising was likely, adding that “it’s going to take place because the Iranian people have had enough.”