Trump reportedly frustrated as he waits on envoys\u2019 judgment over Iran strikes<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n
Hello and welcome to the US politics<\/a> live blog.<\/p>\n Donald Trump is reportedly becoming increasingly frustrated as he weighs up whether to strike Iran<\/strong>. The president has been told any attack would not be \u201ca singular, decisive blow\u201d and could risk drawing the United States into a protracted war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s decision to order airstrikes against Iran<\/a> will hinge in part on the judgment of Trump\u2019s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, about whether Tehran is stalling over a deal to relinquish its capacity to produce nuclear weapons, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n However, Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with what aides describe as the limits of military leverage, CBS News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n He has asked his advisers for options that would deliver a strike substantial enough to force Iranian leaders negotiate from a weaker position – but military planners have warned that there can be no guarantee, according to reports.<\/p>\n The president has not made a final determination on any strikes, as the administration prepares for Iran<\/a> to send its latest proposal this week, ahead of what officials have described as a last-ditch round of negotiations scheduled for Thursday in Geneva.<\/p>\n Read our latest report here:<\/p>\n In other developments:<\/p>\n Trump has declared that he can use tariffs in a \u201cmuch more powerful and obnoxious way\u201d,<\/strong> as the UK and the EU said they were seeking urgent clarity on the US trade deals they struck last summer. Trump threatened to escalate his global tariff war on Monday, after a supreme court ruling last week that he had overstepped his legal authority to impose his \u201cliberation day\u201d measures last year. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The 21-year-old man who was shot and killed after having entered Trump\u2019s Florida resort on Sunday \u2013 while carrying a shotgun \u2013 came from a North Carolina family of the president\u2019s supporters<\/strong> and had reportedly become increasingly fixated on the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files. The focus of the FBI\u2019s investigation into the intrusion attributed to Austin Tucker Martin is tightening on his movements and motives. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean<\/strong>, which killed three men \u2013 its third such attack over the course of a week. The Southern Command identified the three men killed as \u201cmale narco-terrorists\u201d and clarified that no US military forces were harmed in the strike. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives, announced that he is inviting the family of Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil- and human-rights trailblazer who died last week, to the State of the Union<\/strong> address on Tuesday. Several other lawmakers have announced they\u2019re inviting survivors of sexual assault by Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n