President says he has instructed US military to be ready for ‘a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s notice’ – key US politics stories from Monday 18 May

The president wrote on social media that he was prepared to attack Iran but was persuaded not to by the United States’s Gulf allies.

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A 'large scale assault' was 'scheduled' for Tuesday, the US president said