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There is growing frustration within Donald Trump’s White House over the way the war in Iran is going, and insiders are going behind the president’s back to call reporters and complain about him.

Reporting on MS NOW’s "Morning Joe," journalist Katty Kay reported that European leaders have been telling the president he missed the perfect opportunity to declare victory in Iran and dial back the attacks.

President Donald Trump raised eyebrows on Sunday night in response to a female reporter's question about his plans to deploy U.S. troops to fight in the war in Iran.

Trump spoke with reporters on Air Force One, where a female reporter asked Trump about reports that as many as 5,000 U.S. Marines and sailors had been deployed to Iran. Trump dismissed the question and told the reporter that she is a "very obnoxious person."

A prominent ally of President Donald Trump's was roasted by political observers and analysts on Sunday after he reached a "new level of insanity" over the fallout from the Iran war.

After the U.S. and Israel coordinated a bombing campaign against Iran, the regime retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz to U.S. and Israeli ships. The Strait is responsible for 20% of global liquefied natural gas and oil trade, and its closure is part of why energy prices have skyrocketed since the war began.

An international law expert was astounded on Sunday as the Trump administration quietly "rewarded" a country for helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions.

Last week, the Trump administration approved a settlement with Turkey's state-owned Halkbank, which laundered money from Iranian oil back to the Iranian regime while the country was under maximum sanctions by the U.S. In all, the fine for the case could have surpassed $40 billion, according to Sinan Ciddi, senior fellow and director of the Turkey Program at Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

President Donald Trump's latest move in the war in Iran alarmed a supply chain analyst on Sunday.

Over the weekend, Trump called on other countries to help the U.S. clear the Strait of Hormuz, which the Iranian regime has fortified in response to the coordinated bombing campaign conducted by the U.S. and Israel that began in late February. About 20% of global liquefied natural gas and oil trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran has said U.S. and Israeli ships can no longer transit the waterway.

President Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may end up becoming a tense standoff after the newly re-elected leader vowed to be “candid” about the economic pain the Trump administration had inflicted on the East Asian nation.

“If President Donald Trump is expecting effusive praise for his war on Iran when Japan’s prime minister arrives in Washington on Thursday, he is likely to be disappointed,” wrote Bronwen Maddox, director of the British foreign-policy think tank Chatham House in the organization’s report Sunday.