If President Donald Trump does make the decision to strike Iran, these air defense deployments will give him more options and greater leeway than he had two weeks ago.

Iranian MP Mojtaba Zarei urged Jordanians to seize the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base and take US soldiers captive after Tehran strikes the base in a threatened upcoming ballistic missile attack.

American airstrikes on Iran are not imminent since the United States military is still deploying additional air defense systems to the Middle East to bolster protection for Israel and its Arab allies, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing US officials.

The US military accused Iran of "unnecessary aggression" after shooting down an Iranian drone near the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea and IRGC vessels approached a US-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz ahead of US-Iran talks later this week.

President Trump’s “massive armada” of warships and fighter planes near Iran mirrors the military buildup of assets in the Caribbean as the president weighs greenlighting strikes against the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s Islamic Republic, weakened by airstrikes in June and huge popular unrest, warns that it will strike back hard if attacked by the United States. This time, Iran may mean it.

A Eurowings flight from Dubai to Germany landed 11 hours later than usual after a fuel stop in Greece, before encountering a nighttime curfew.

Iran has said it will not make concessions on its formidable ballistic missile programme -- one of the biggest in the Middle East -- calling that a red line in negotiations.