Trump: Iran could ‘take out’ Los Angeles, San Diego

US President Donald Trump at a rally in ruby red Nebraska on Monday night told supporters that he hoped to see a “tremendous victory” in the fast-approaching November midterm elections. 
He then suggested high prices due to the war with Iran were a “small price to pay for keeping the world safe – keeping our country safe”. “They can take out a city,” Trump said in Grand Island. “Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” The crowd applauded.
“It’ll be over very soon,” Trump said of the war. 
The governor of California and the cities’ mayors quickly condemned the comments. They have denounced Trump as “reckless” and “deranged” after his remarks about Los Angeles and San Diego – two liberal cities in the blue state that has been a frequent target of his administration. 
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's airports in Jazan and Najran were targeted in two attacks on Monday evening, injuring three people and causing limited damage, the Saudi aviation authority said, as hostilities between the kingdom and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis escalated.

Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said it was assessing the damage at the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Airport and Najran International Airport and taking measures to ensure the safety of passengers and staff and the security of the kingdom's civil aviation system.
Houthis on Tuesday said a Saudi airstrike killed six members of the same family as fighting intensifies in the impoverished country's resurgent civil war. 
Fighting across Yemen has killed more than 270 government troops and Iran-backed Houthi fighters in 24 hours, sources on both sides told AFP on Tuesday. 
Government sources told AFP on condition of anonymity that 115 troops had died in 24 hours, and that dozens of others were wounded in fighting, and by Houthi missile and drone attacks.
Houthi military sources meanwhile told AFP that they had lost 160 fighters, mainly in Saudi strikes on areas under their control.
On the other hand, Britain is likely to expel Israeli diplomats if Israel carries out its order to shut the British consulate in East Jerusalem 
this week in a dispute over sanctions targeting Israeli settlements, four sources said. Israel on 8 September ordered Britain to close the East Jerusalem consulate within 30 days and remove its diplomats from the city, after Britain said it would impose a ban on trade of goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The 30-day deadline for Britain to close the consulate ends on Thursday, which will impact around 30 British diplomats who work there, along with their family members, the sources said. 
If the consulate is closed, Britain is likely to respond by expelling a similar number of Israeli diplomats from Israel's embassy to the United Kingdom, the sources said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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