Fox Business: White House Council of Economic Advisers chair Furman said the US CPI report weakens the case for further rate hikes.

Michael Stephens, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said Iran is deliberately seeking to prolong the war because it does not view economic pressure as an existential threat to the regime. After nearly six months of fighting, Tehran is convinced the US will not mount a ground invasion and that "the survival threat has gone," so it is trying to accelerate operations to "make Trump feel greater pain" and prefers to "drag it out." Stephens said, contrary to pre-war expectations of imminent collapse after mass protests, Iran has not fallen and Washington appears to lack effective means to compel Tehran; Iranians can "continue to live in a stalemate" — suffering but not facing a survival crisis, which he described as the core problem for the US.

美國總統特朗普：白宮新聞祕書萊維特將於本月底離職。