
Trump says US strikes on Iran will continue as talks collapse, while Iran claims retaliatory strikes on a Kuwait airbase and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, and reports emerge of a possible US-Israel land blockade of Iran. Analysts warn Iran has shifted from restraint to preemptive strikes, raising fears of a wider regional war centered on the Middle East. This intensifying Israel-adjacent Middle East conflict echoes Christ's warnings of 'wars and rumors of wars' as a marker of the end times.