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President Trump on Sunday posted an update on the situation in Iran, trolling the Iranian Navy after US forces executed strikes in Iran that killed dozens of top officials and the Iranian Supreme Leader. “I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, some of them relatively large and important,” Trump said. “We are going after the rest — They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea, also!” “In a different attack,” he added, “we largely destroyed their Naval Headquarters.” Trump then trolled the Iranian Navy, writing, “Other than that, their Navy is doing very well!”

The suspect gunman who killed two people at a bar in Texas early Sunday was wearing a hoodie that said “Property of Allah,” and another shirt with an Iranian flag design, the Associated Press confirmed. The mass shooter that left two dead and 14 others wounded has been identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne. Diagne was naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Senegal and lived in Pflugerville, Texas. According to the FBI, the shooting was “potentially an act of terrorism.” FBI agent Alex Doran told reporters on Sunday “there were indicators on the subject, and in his vehicle, that indicate a potential nexus to terrorism.”

The conflict between the United States, Israel and the Islamist regime in Iran could result in terror blowback across Europe, German security officials have warned. The chairman of the Bundestag’s Parliamentary Control Committee (PKGr), which oversees Germany’s intelligence services, warned on Sunday in comments reported by Die Welt that “retaliatory measures” by pro-Iranian regime terrorists, including “sleeper cells in Europe”, could not be ruled out. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said, “The Iranian regime has repeatedly demonstrated in the past that it carries out its terror beyond its own borders.

The Vanguard Group’s decision to sign an agreement resolving a multistate lawsuit accusing investment firms of colluding to harm the coal industry contains an item that opponents of ESG are very excited about. It could confirm the lawsuit’s accusations — or prove them entirely false. Among other items in its settlement agreement, Vanguard agreed to hand over communications it had with other parties. Will Hild, executive director of Consumers’ Research, said in a webinar Friday that the documents Vanguard is going to provide will demonstrate that the asset managers were colluding, as the lawsuit accuses them of doing.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — a polarizing hardliner who became the face of Tehran’s nuclear defiance and incendiary anti-Israel rhetoric — was reportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes during Saturday’s strikes inside Iran. A report by the Israeli media outlet Ma’ariv stated that Ahmadinejad was under house arrest at the time and was killed in a targeted strike on his home.Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s sixth president from 2005 to 2013, rising from relative obscurity as mayor of Tehran to defeat establishment figure Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a surprise 2005 runoff. Critics at home and abroad described him as a confrontational ideologue whose economic management —