Despite increasingly heated rhetoric on Iran coming from President Donald Trump on Tuesday, U.S. officials said the Pentagon had not made any new, major force posture changes in the Middle East in the past 24 hours and the mission for troops remained protecting U.S. assets -- not conducting strikes. Israel for days had conducted missile strikes on Iran, including hitting its state media broadcaster in Tehran, and appeared set on destroying its nuclear program, potentially with the help of the U.

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