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New wave of strikes pound Iran as President Trump now considers ground troops - NBC News
A new wave of strikes is pounding Iran as President Trump demands the country's unconditional surrender and weighs sending U.S. troops on the ground. Meanwhile, our reporter is in Lebanon as Israeli strikes hit Beirut, sending half a million people scrambling to evacuate. We’ll also investigate a deadly attack on an Iranian school. Was the United States behind it? And the war is rattling the global economy, driving oil prices sharply higher and sending stock markets plunging.