Live Updates: Trump won't rule out ground troops in Iran, says campaign could last 5 weeks

 What to know as the Iran war continues for third day

• The Iran war launched by the U.S. and Israel continued for a third day Monday with more attacks on Iran, which is hitting back at Israel and its Arab neighbors. 
  
  
  
• President Trump said the war was the "last best chance" of addressing the threat posed by Iran's ballistic missiles and nuclear program, and that the campaign could last four to five weeks with the "capability to go far longer than that." He told the New York Post he will not rule out sending ground troops into Iran if necessary. 
• The U.S. military death toll climbed to four. In a separate incident, Kuwait shot down three U.S. F-15 jets in what the military called a "friendly fire incident," and all crewmembers were safe. The strikes have killed at least 11 people in Israel and the Iranian Red Crescent says 555 people have been killed in Iran.

  Iran's president: Tehran "will not remain silent" after alleged school, hospital attacks

  Masoud Pezeshkian, the president of Iran, said on social media Monday that "attacks on hospitals strike at life itself" and "attacks on schools target a nation's future."

  "Targeting patients and children blatantly violates humanitarian principles," he said. "The world must condemn it. I stand with my grieving nation. Iran will not remain silent or yield to these crimes."

  Iranian officials and its state-run media claimed Saturday that a U.S. or Israeli strike hit a girls elementary school in the country's south, killing dozens of students. Neither the U.S. or Israel have confirmed the strike.

  49 senior regime leaders killed in strikes, White House says

  The operation against Iran has killed 49 of "the most senior Iranian regime leaders," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.

  Mr. Trump also gave that figure earlier Monday to the New York post, saying, "We're right on schedule, way ahead of schedule in terms of [Iranian] leadership — 49 killed — and that was, you know, going to take, we figured at least four weeks, and we did it in one day."

  Leavitt outlined objectives of the campaign against Iran, which she said include: destroying Iran's missiles and Navy; stopping the regime from making and using IEDs and roadside bombs; and guaranteeing that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon.

  In a post on X, she said the regime "was fully committed to rebuilding their nuclear program, and they REFUSED to make a deal, despite months of extensive talks and good faith efforts by President Trump's top negotiators."