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Trump keeps low profile after ordering Iran strikes

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Rescue workers evacuate an elderly woman at the scene of an Iranian missile strike in Beer Sheva on March 2, 2026. [AFP]

Hunkered down at his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US President Donald Trump kept an unusually low profile after announcing the start of major military strikes on Iran.

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