Middle East crisis live: Israel says it has launched ‘extensive strikes’ on Iran as Trump says US ‘not ready’ to make a deal to end war

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a brief video to mock viral social media rumors suggesting he had been killed.

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Taking a sip from a steaming cup at a cafe near Jerusalem, he jokingly posted to his official X account, “I’m dead for coffee,” utilizing a Hebrew slang term that equates being “dead” for something with loving it.

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Netanyahu then held his hands up to the lens and asked, “Do you want to count the number of fingers?” This was a direct jab at online conspiracy theorists who claimed a previous televised address was a deepfake, pointing to an optical illusion that made it appear as though he had six fingers on one hand.

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Turning to the ongoing conflict, the prime minister urged Israelis to remain vigilant and follow safety protocols during rocket alerts. He noted that their collective resilience “gives strength to me, to the government, to the army, to the Mossad.”

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“We are doing things that I cannot share at this moment, but we are striking Iran very hard, and also Lebanon,” he said, reinforcing the scale of the current military offensive.

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A rocket attack on Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, which houses a US diplomatic facility, wounded five people on Sunday, Iraqi authorities said.

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The Iraqi government’s security media cell said “five rockets targeted Baghdad International Airport and its surrounding area, injuring four airport employees and security personnel, and an engineer”.

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It added that rockets struck the airport and a water desalination plant, while others crashed near a prison where Islamic State group (IS) suspects are detained and an Iraqi airbase next to the US diplomatic facility.

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Security forces seized the launchpad used for the attack in the Al-Radwaniya area southwest of Baghdad, the authorities added. Security sources told AFP that three drones were also downed near the airport.

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Baghdad’s airport includes a sprawling military complex that is divided into several bases belonging to the Iraqi army and security services, as well as a US diplomatic and logistics facility, and a central prison.

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Italy’s military said on Sunday there had been a drone attack on the Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait hosting Italian and US forces, but said all its personnel were safe.

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“This morning, Ali Al Salem base in Kuwait was the target of a drone attack that hit a shelter housing a remotely piloted aircraft of the Italian Task Force Air (TFA), which was destroyed,” chief of the Defense General Staff, Luciano Portolano, said in a statement posted by Italy’s Ministry of Defense on X.

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The statement adds that the Italian contingent of Task Force Air had been scaled back in recent days “as part of measures adopted in response to the evolving security situation in the area”.

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Energy secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that there’s “a very good chance” gas prices could drop below $3 a gallon by summer — though that is contingent on the Iran conflict’s end.

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Wright told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that while US drivers “are feeling it right now” at the pump and “will feel it for a few more weeks”, Wright once the Iran war is over, “we’ll go to a world more abundant in energy, more affordable in energy, and less risky for American soldiers and commerce in the Middle East.”

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But he also acknowledged “there’s no guarantees in war” and the time frame for gasoline to drop back below $3 a gallon was “still not entirely clear”. He added that a pre-war price target in time for summer travel season is “a goal of the [Trump] administration”.

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On Saturday, gas prices averaged $3.70 a gallon, according to GasBuddy, up from $2.94 per gallon on 1 March.

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Donald Trump dismissed concerns about rising gas prices in the US in a phone call to NBC on Saturday, with the president saying: “I think they’ll go lower than they were before, and I had them at record lows. There’s so much oil, gas — there’s so much out there, but you know, it’s being clogged up a little bit. It’ll be unclogged very soon”.

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Key to making those predictions a reality is the strait of Hormuz. Wright acknowledged Sunday that strait is not currently safe for transit but said making it safe is “one of the objectives at the end of this conflict”.

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Iran has warned that if the US strikes its oil infrastructure on Kharg Island it will hit oil infrastructure of the US and its allies in the region. Trump on Saturday called on China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and all “affected by this artificial constraint” to send ships to the area “so that Iran will no longer threaten the strait”.

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  Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, denied Tehran had asked for a ceasefire or even a negotiation to end the war, in comments undermining Donald Trump’s claim that Iran wanted to make a deal.

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  Araghchi also said that Iran was open to countries who wanted to “talk” about safe passage through the strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping channels, which has effectively been closed due to the war.

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  Iran has attacked ships and reportedly started to lay mines in the strait, in effect closing it to marine traffic, leading to a surge in energy prices and inflation fears around the world.

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  Countries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options after Trump urged them to send warships to the strait to secure the vital shipping route.

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  Trump told NBC News that the “terms aren’t good enough yet” for a deal with Iran. He said Tehran’s commitment to completely abandoning any nuclear weapons ambitions would be part of any agreement.

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  US energy secretary Chris Wright said he expects the US-Israel war with Iran to end within “the next few weeks” amid a spike in gas prices in the US.

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  The Lebanese health ministry said 850 people, including over 100 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on the country since 2 March.

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  Israel said it launched extensive airstrikes across western Iran today. The IDF said earlier it had detected Iranian missiles being fired at Israel.

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  Israeli military warned several neighbourhoods in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital of Beirut to evacuate “immediately” ahead of Israeli attacks.

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  Oil-loading operations at Fujairah, the UAE’s main oil port on its east coast, have reportedly restarted after it was targeted by a drone strike on Saturday.

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  The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is “in good health” and “fully managing the situation” despite ongoing speculation regarding his whereabouts. In his interview with NBC News, Trump questioned whether the 56-year-old was “even alive”.

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We can bring you more from the CBS News interview with the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, who was questioned about the effective closure of the strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping channels. He was asked specifically about a report in the Financial Times that said European diplomats from France and Italy were talking to the Iranian government about trying to get safe passage for their ships.

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“We are open to countries who want to talk to us about the safe passage of their vessels,” Araghchi replied. Margaret Brennan then pressed him on whether Tehran was negotiating with diplomats from France and Italy, to which the foreign minister replied:

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I cannot mention any country in particular, but we have been approached by a number of countries who wants to have a safe passage for their vessels.

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And this is up to our military to decide, and they have already decided to let, you know, a group of vessels belongs to different countries to pass in a safe and secure.

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So we provide them security to pass because we have not closed this strait. They are not coming themselves because of the insecurity which is there, because of the aggression by the US.

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Since the US and Israel first launched strikes on Iran a fortnight ago, numerous ships travelling through the strait have been attacked. It is now effectively closed, driving up oil prices around the world. Trump has urged countries including the UK, China and France to send warships to the strait to help secure the key shipping route.

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In an interview with CBS News’ Face the Nation programme, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran had “never asked for a ceasefire, we have never asked even for negotiation”, after Donald Trump claimed Iran wanted to make a deal.

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“We don’t see any reason why we should talk with Americans, because we were talking with them when they decided to attack us, and that was for the second time,” Araghchi told CBS News.

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“This is a war of choice by President Trump and the United States, and we are going to continue our self-defence,” he added.

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The Lebanese health ministry has said 850 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since 2 March, when Israel started striking Lebanon following Hezbollah’s firing of rockets towards the country.

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In a statement, Lebanese health officials said more than 100 of those killed were children and that over 2,000 people had been injured in the Israeli attacks.

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Iran has said that at least 56 of its museums, historic buildings and cultural sites have been damaged by US-Israeli strikes since the war began, according to Iranian state news agency IRNA.

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The largest number of damaged sites was reportedly recorded in Tehran, where 19 historical locations were affected. The second highest was in Kurdistan province, where 12 sites were reportedly damaged.

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The X account of the government of the Islamic Republic listed several historic buildings in Sanandaj, capital of Iranian Kurdistan in the north-west of Iran, that were affected.

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Mike Walz, the US ambassador to the UN, has echoed Donald Trump’s message for other countries to protect their oil tankers in the strait of Hormuz. “It’s absolutely correct for President Trump to call on the world to come help make sure their energy supplies are secure,” Waltz told Fox News Sunday. “Enough is enough with Iran holding the world hostage.”

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Bloomberg is reporting that oil-loading operations at Fujairah, the UAE’s main oil port on its east coast, have restarted after it was targeted by a drone strike on Saturday.

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The port is located on the Gulf of Oman, ​approximately 70 nautical miles from the strait of Hormuz, which is ⁠effectively closed due to the war. Fujairah sits at the end of a pipeline allowing the UAE to bypass the now incredibly dangerous strait.

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Thick plumes of smoke were seen at the port yesterday. The Emirates media office said the fire occurred after debris fell during the interception of a drone and that no injuries were reported.

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Fujairah exported more than 1.7m barrels per day of crude oil and refined fuels on average last year, according to Kpler data, a volume equal to about 1.7% ​of daily world demand.

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Bahrain’s Ministry of the Interior say five people have been arrested for their involvement in collecting and passing on “precise and sensitive information” to the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC).

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Officials say the arrests were also for “recruiting terrorist elements” to carry out terror plots against Bahrain:

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These acts were intended to undermine the state’s sovereignty, target security authorities and economic entities, spread fear and panic among citizens and residents, and risk the country’s security and safety.

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The source, requesting anonymity, said the strike killed Hamas official Wissam Taha, after state media earlier reported a strike on an apartment in a residential building in a northern district of Sidon.

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The coastal city is home to Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, which Israel has previously struck in recent months, saying it was targeting Hamas.

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Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have continued even as Israeli jets carry out attacks in Iran and Lebanon.

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Gaza health authorities now say the direct death toll from Israeli attacks since 7 October 2023 is at least 72,239 Palestinian people, including 663 killed since a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025.

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These figures are generally seen as reliable by UN agencies and independent experts. Most of the people killed in these Israeli attacks have been civilians, many of whom were women and children.

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At least four Palestinian people, including two boys and a woman pregnant with twins, were killed earlier today in Nuseirat, a refugee camp in central Gaza, according to hospital authorities.

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As my colleague Julian Borger notes in this story, progress in the so-called Gaza peace plan has stalled over disagreements on how Hamas should be disarmed, with Israel threatening to go back to its full-scale war if the condition is not carried out quickly.

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There have been reports of missile and drone activity across Israel, with sirens reported in northern towns as well as central and southern areas including Tel Aviv.

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The IDF said earlier on X that it had detected Iranian missiles being fired at Israel.

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The Times of Israel is reporting that five people have been injured from seven separate Iranian missile attacks on Israel since midnight. We have not been able to verify these figures or reports.

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In a post on X, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee warned several neighbourhoods in the southern suburbs of Beirut to evacuate “immediately” ahead of Israeli attacks.

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He said the warning especially applies to residents of Haret Hreik, Ghobeiry, Laylaki, Bourj el-Barajneh, Ghadir Perimeter and Shiyah.

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“The defense army will not hesitate to target anyone present near Hezbollah elements, their facilities, or their combat means. You are putting yourselves and your lives in danger – therefore, evacuate the area immediately,” Adraee said.

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At least 826 people, including many children, have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes, according to the ministry of health. The ministry says 31 health workers have been killed. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes by sweeping Israeli evacuation orders in the devastating Israeli-US assault on the country.

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Over in the UK, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, said the government was “intensively” looking at what it can do to help reopen the strait of Hormuz, a day after Donald Trump said the UK should send warships to help keep the world’s most vital oil transit point open.

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Miliband was asked on Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips whether Britain was looking at sending minesweepers or mine hunting drones to the strait, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil passes.

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The energy secretary said:

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We are talking to our allies. There’s different ways in which we can make maritime shipping possible. We are intensively looking with our allies at what can be done, because it’s so important that we get the strait reopened.

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Speaking to the BBC, he described reopening the strait as a “priority for the world” and said that “any options that can get the strait reopened are being looked at”.

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He said the British government has been in contact with allies – including the US – about getting navigation through the strait back to prewar levels.

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Iran has attacked ships and reportedly started to lay mines in the strait, in effect closing it to marine traffic, leading to a huge rise in global oil prices. Last year, about 20m barrels of oil passed through the strait each day.

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The Iranian foreign minister also said that the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is “in good health” and “fully managing the situation”.

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Abbas Araghchi ⁠said that he welcomes “any regional initiative that leads to a just end to the war”, adding there is no such specific proposal “on the table” yet.

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Iranian officials have admitted Khamenei was hurt in the Israeli strike that opened the war but claim the 56-year-old’s injuries are not serious.

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Khamenei, recently named as successor to his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the US-Israeli strikes, has not appeared in public since assuming power, fuelling rumours about his health.

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His first public address was broadcast by state media on 12 March – but this was read out by a presenter, only adding to the speculation.

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In an interview with NBC News yesterday, the US president, Donald Trump, questioned whether Iran’s new supreme leader was “even alive”. “I’m hearing he’s not alive, and if he is, he should do something very smart for his country, and that’s surrender,” Trump added.

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In an interview with the Al-Araby al-Jadeed ⁠website, Iran’s foreign ⁠minister Abbas Araghchi ⁠said his country is ready to form a committee with countries in the region to investigate who was behind strikes in civilian or residential areas in the Middle East. He denied Iran had targeted such areas.

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Araghchi said lines of diplomatic communication were open with Gulf states, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman.

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In response to US-Israeli attacks, Iran started launching missile and drone attacks across the Gulf region, targeting what it says are US military assets – but many of these strikes have hit civilian infrastructure.

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Gulf countries are angry at having been pulled into the war, a conflict they had diplomatically tried to prevent.

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The names of the six US service members who died when a military refueling aircraft crashed over Iraq on Thursday have been released.

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The Pentagon on Saturday identified the crew members as Maj John “Alex” Klinner, 33, of Auburn, Alabama; Capt Ariana Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington; Tech Sgt Ashley Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, Kentucky; Capt Seth Koval, 38, of Mooresville, Indiana; Capt Curtis Angst, 30, of Wilmington, Ohio; and Tech Sgt Tyler Simmons, 28, of Columbus, Ohio.

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The Pentagon has said the loss of the KC-135 Stratotanker was not caused by hostile or friendly fire.

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US Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, has said the crash occurred in western Iraq on Thursday following an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in “friendly airspace”. The other tanker involved in the incident landed safely in Israel.

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The crash brings the US death toll in Operation Epic Fury to at least 13 service members, with the seven others killed in combat. About 140 US service members have been injured, including eight severely, the Pentagon said earlier this week. You can read more here:

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In a post to Telegram, The Iranian news agency Mehr reported that the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has vowed to kill the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

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The IRGC was quoted as saying they “will continue to pursue and kill him with force”.

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The IRGC is a major military, political and economic force in Iran, loyal to the country’s supreme leader.

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The IDF said 10 minutes ago in a post on X that it had launched a wave of “extensive strikes” across western Iran.

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It claims it is striking “infrastructure” of the Iranian regime but Israel has killed many civilians in its attacks over the last two weeks.

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Here’s the latest on the US-Israel war on Iran, and the widening crisis it has caused across the Middle East.

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Donald Trump has said the United States may carry out more strikes on a vital Iranian oil export hub “just for fun”, rejecting the prospect of a swift peace deal with Tehran. He claimed that US strikes had “totally demolished” most of Kharg Island.

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Here’s what else has been happening.

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  Donald Trump expressed surprise that US allies in the Gulf have been targeted by Iran. In an interview with NBC News, the US president called these countries “terrific”, adding that “they got shot at unnecessarily”.

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  Gulf nations continued to face attacks. The United Arab Emirates reported a missile attack on Sunday morning. Sirens sounded in Bahrain ahead of an anticipated assault. The defence ministry of Saudi Arabia said its systems intercepted and destroyed 10 drones over the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh, and its eastern region.

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  Oil-loading operations resumed at a key oil centre in the UAE following a drone attack, according to reports. A fire broke out this weekend at a port in Fujairah when debris from an intercepted Iranian drone hit an oil facility.

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  Countries are considering Trump’s demand that they send ships to join a “team effort” to reopen the strait of Hormuz. “We will communicate closely with the US regarding this matter and make a decision after careful review,” South Korea’s presidential office said on Sunday.

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  Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes have killed 826 people, including 65 women and 106 children, since the start of the war. In a statement, the ministry said 31 paramedics were among those killed. Local health authorities reported this morning that an Israeli strike killed 12 medical staff at a clinic in the southern town of Burj Qalaouiya.

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  At least 15 people were killed when a strike by Israel and the US hit a factory in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, the semi-official Fars news agency said. There were workers inside the factory, which produces heaters and refrigerators, when the strike hit, Fars reported.

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  Trump rejected the prospect of a swift peace deal with Tehran. “The terms aren’t good enough yet,” he told NBC, claiming that the Iranian regime wants to make an agreement.

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  Formula One cancelled the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia grands prix because of the war, underlining the disruption across the Middle East. The races were due to take place on 12 April in Bahrain and 19 April in Saudi Arabia.

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As Donald Trump pushes countries to join a “team effort” to reopen the strait of Hormuz, South Korea has said it will consider his call for allies to send warships.

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“We will communicate closely with the US regarding this matter and make a decision after careful review,” South Korea’s presidential office said on Sunday.

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The strait of Hormuz, one of the most important waterways in global trade, has been all but closed since the US-Israel war on Iran began. Oil prices have surged amid mounting concern over energy supplies.

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Trump, who has played down those fears this weekend, nevertheless expressed hope that countries – specifically naming China, France, Japan, South Korea and the UK – would “send ships to the area” to ensure vessels can again travel through Hormuz.

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Countries “that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!”, the US President wrote on social media.

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But a senior Japanese official called into question earlier on Sunday whether Tokyo would send warships to Hormuz. “I regard the threshold as extremely high” for sending Japanese navy ships to the region under existing Japanese laws, Takayuki Kobayashi, policy chief of prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said on the public broadcaster NHK.

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Iran has accused “the enemy” of using copycat drones to attack neighbouring countries and pin responsibility on Tehran, amid intense anger over its retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.

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The allegation was made without evidence by the Iranian joint military command, in a statement reported by state media. Tehran often uses “the enemy” as a reference to the US and Israel.

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Since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran two weeks ago, Iran’s military has hit back with missiles and drones across the Middle East – infuriating nearby nations.

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The United Arab Emirates reported a missile attack Sunday morning. Sirens sounded in Bahrain ahead of an anticipated assault. The defence ministry of Saudi Arabia said its systems intercepted and destroyed 10 drones over the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh, and its eastern region.

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Sunday’s statement by Iran claimed without evidence that copies of its Shahed-136 drone, known as LUCAS, were used to hit “irrelevant targets in the regional states”, including attacks on Turkey, Iraq and Kuwait.

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Russia is supplying Iran with Shahed drones to use against the US and Israel, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN in an interview excerpt aired on Saturday.

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Zelenskyy told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that it is “100% facts” that Iran has used Russian-made Shaheds to attack US bases.

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Shahed drones have been linked to other attacks on countries in the region, although their manufacturers are not always clear.

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Iran pioneered the Shahed drone, a much cheaper alternative to expensive missiles. They first saw mass use in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where thousands of them have been launched by Russian forces since fall 2022, according to the Ukrainians.

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Although Iran initially provided the drones, Russia now manufactures its own Shaheds. The armed forces of other countries have since adopted Shahed-type drones, including the US military, which has said they are part of the current campaign against Iran.

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Donald Trump has said he is “surprised” that US allies in the Gulf have been targeted by Iran, in an interview with NBC News.

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The president called these countries “terrific”, adding that “they got shot at unnecessarily.” When talking about Iran’s decision to target them, Trump said it was “the biggest surprise I had of this whole thing.”

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For decades, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Oman have allowed US military bases, infrastructure or access on their soil, and have been among the largest buyers of American weapons and technology. In return, the US has stood as the Gulf’s closest and most significant military partner and protector.

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Now many of these countries have growing concerns over the relationship, analysts say, as they are pulled deeper into a war that they did not start and had diplomatically tried to prevent.

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While the Gulf expected to be caught in the backlash, the scale of Iran’s campaign of revenge has left many shocked. Gulf states had assured Tehran that none of their bases would be used for attacks but that has not stopped Iran launching thousands of drones and missiles targeting airports, military bases, oil refineries, ports, hotels and office buildings.

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Hello and welcome to our continuing coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran and the widening crisis in the Middle East that it’s causing.

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Donald Trump has said that the US may carry out more strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub, saying that while Tehran appears ready to make a deal to end the conflict, “the terms aren’t good enough yet”.

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He said the US strikes had “totally demolished” most of Kharg Island, telling NBC News that “we may hit it a few more times just for fun”.

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The comments marked an escalation in rhetoric from the president, who had previously said the US targeted only military sites on Kharg.

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Here’s what else has been happening.

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  Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes have killed 826 people, including 65 women and 106 children, since the start of the war. In a statement today, the ministry said 31 paramedics were among those killed. Local health authorities reported this morning that an Israeli strike killed 12 medical staff at a clinic in the southern town of Burj Qalaouiya.

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  At least 15 people were killed when a strike by Israel and the US hit a factory in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, the semi-official Fars news agency said. There were workers inside the factory, which produces heaters and refrigerators, when the strike hit, Fars reported.

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  Iran issued an evacuation warning for three major ports in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, including the busiest in the Middle East, the Associated Press reported. Iran claims the US had used “ports, docks and hideouts” in the UAE to launch strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island. It urged people to evacuate areas where it said US forces were sheltering.

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  Trump renewed his call for other nations to help secure the strait of Hormuz and said the US will coordinate with them amid the US-Israeli war on Iran. “The United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran, both Militarily, Economically, and in every other way, but the Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help – A LOT,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

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  The Trump administration rebuffed efforts by Middle Eastern allies to start diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the Iran war that started two weeks ago with a massive US-Israeli air assault, according to reporting from Reuters.

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  The Israeli military says it killed two senior officials in Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Emergency Command in an airstrike on Tehran. In a post on X, army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said Abdullah Jalali-Nasab and Amir Shariat, described as senior figures in the command’s intelligence branch, were killed in the attack.

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  Israel informed the US this week that it is running critically low on ballistic missile interceptors as the conflict with Iran continues, Semafor reported on Saturday, citing US officials familiar with the matter.

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  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr accused news broadcasters of “running hoaxes and news distortions” amid the war in Iran in a post on X. “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions – also known as the fake news – have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr wrote.

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  Formula One has cancelled the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia grands prix because of the war, underlining the disruption across the Middle East. The races were due to take place on 12 April in Bahrain and 19 April in Saudi Arabia but the sport was approaching the point at which a decision on cancellation needed to be made to prevent more freight being sent to Bahrain.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday it had released $2 million from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) to support the health response in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria amidst the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.

The conflict has triggered a large-scale population movement, the WHO said last week, estimating that more than 100,000 people in Iran have relocated, and up to 700,000 people in Lebanon have been internally displaced.

$1 million USD has been allocated to Lebanon to strengthen the WHO’s emergency coordination through the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, scale up trauma care, reinforce disease surveillance, and procure and distribute essential medicines and medical supplies, the agency said in a statement.

Iraq and Syria have each been allocated $500,000 to support emergency coordination and mass-casualty management, procure and distribute essential medicines and supplies, provide health services for displaced populations, and strengthen disease surveillance and community outreach, it added.

“At a time when health services are already facing significant challenges, support is essential to sustain frontline health workers and maintain critical care services,” Hanan Balkhy, WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean said.

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Democratic US senator Cory Booker has criticized both his own political party as well as its Republican counterpart for being “feckless” in ceding congressional war powers to Donald Trump, saying that their decision could embolden the president to unilaterally attack Cuba, North Korea and other countries.

“I’m going to be one of those Democrats [who] say I think both parties have been feckless in allowing the growth of the power of the presidency,” Booker said on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.

The New Jersey senator said nothing Barack Obama did while in the White House – or that even Trump did before his first presidency ended in defeat to Joe Biden – was “in any way related to what we’re seeing right now”.

Booker’s comments alluded to US military strikes Trump has ordered in Nigeria, Venezuela and Iran since Christmas. He called the war that the US and Israel started in Iran on 28 February – when a missile strike killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – “the biggest military engagement of our country since the war in Afghanistan”.

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Virginia senator Mark Warner addressed the strike on an Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the Iran war, killing an estimated 200, including many young students, saying lawmakers have only received “preliminary assessments” on the airstrike but that “clearly, it was an American airstrike”.

Warner, a Democrat who serves as vice chairman of the select committee on intelligence, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that he was “a little disappointed that the president tried to deny that at first, or say it was even the Iranians.”

A Reuters investigation found that the elementary school in Minab, Iran, had a yearslong online presence, including dozens of photos of the children and their activities, before it was bombed along with at least six other buildings in an adjacent military compound.

The news agency first reported investigators at the Defense Department believe US forces were likely responsible for the bombing, and new indications emerged that the US may have relied upon outdated targeting data that apparently did ⁠not distinguish between the school and the adjoining Iranian military base in Minab, a town in southern Iran.

President Trump initially said he doubted the possibility of US involvement and suggested that

Iran may have attacked the school. But early last week Trump said publicly he would “certainly” accept ⁠the results of a US investigation: “Whatever the report shows, I’m willing to live with that report.”

In comments Sunday, Warner maintained that he supports a 2025 Annual Threat Assessment by US intelligence leaders who testified that Iran had not reauthorized their nuclear weapons program – a key Trump administration justification for the US-Israel strikes.

“There was no imminent threat to the United States, and I don’t believe there was even an imminent threat to Israel from Iran,” Warner said, adding that “over a period of time, particularly with the ballistic missile capability, Israel would be more under threat. The decision to go to war in this case was a choice by President Trump.”

Warner also addressed two domestic US attacks, in Michigan and Virginia, currently being investigated as acts of terror. Warner said FBI Director Kash Patel “has fired many of the top counterterrorism folks… and put them on immigration enforcement” and called the transfers “a mistake.”

Warner added: “I knew this was going to come back and bite us, and I believe while there may not be a direct relationship here, we know in all of the offices they have taken these FBI agents off their critical cases and put them on immigration enforcement.”

UN peacekeepers said they were fired upon “likely by non-state armed groups” in south Lebanon on Sunday, while a Hamas source said an Israeli strike killed an official from the Palestinian militant group.

The UN statement came as Israeli officials said talks with Lebanon are expected in the coming days. The talks are aimed at securing a durable ceasefire that would see Hezbollah disarmed, though the timing and terms have yet to be agreed, according to Reuters.

A Lebanese official said on Sunday that Lebanon has not yet received official notification from Israel on discussions.

British prime minister Keir Starmer discussed the need to reopen the strait of Hormuz to end disruption to global shipping with US President Donald Trump, a Downing Street spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Starmer also spoke with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, with the leaders discussing the impact of the strait’s continued closure on international shipping, the spokeswoman told Reuters.

Starmer and Carney agreed to continue talks on the Middle East conflict at a meeting on Monday.

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In the US, Trump’s media commissioner is facing pushback after threatening broadcasters with losing their licenses if they run what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deems “fake news” over the Iran conflict.

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin took issue with Brendan Carr’s comments – telling Fox News he was not in favor of the government control of private enterprise or efforts to meddle with freedom of speech protected under the constitution.

As the US-Israel war on Iran is about to enter its third week, there is little sign of imminent regime change in Tehran while the blockade of strait of Hormuz shocks global economy.

Questions are mounting now as to who really has the initiative as hostilities continue without an end in sight.

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Germany’s foreign minister Johann Wadephul said on Sunday that he was skeptical about a potential widening of the European Union’s Aspides naval mission to the strait of Hormuz.

Wadepuhl’s comments appeared to cast doubt on earlier remarks by Donald Trump that “many countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz strait, will be sending war ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the strait open and safe”.

Wadephul said the mission to help commercial shipments pass through the Red Sea to fend off attacks from Yemen’s Houthis was “not effective”, adding “and that is why I am very skeptical that extending Aspides to the strait of Hormuz would provide greater security,” he said in an interview on Germany’s ARD broadcaster.

Netanyahu releases video to respond to rumors of his death

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a brief video to mock viral social media rumors suggesting he had been killed.

Taking a sip from a steaming cup at a cafe near Jerusalem, he jokingly posted to his official X account, “I’m dead for coffee,” utilizing a Hebrew slang term that equates being “dead” for something with loving it.

Netanyahu then held his hands up to the lens and asked, “Do you want to count the number of fingers?” This was a direct jab at online conspiracy theorists who claimed a previous televised address was a deepfake, pointing to an optical illusion that made it appear as though he had six fingers on one hand.

Turning to the ongoing conflict, the prime minister urged Israelis to remain vigilant and follow safety protocols during rocket alerts. He noted that their collective resilience “gives strength to me, to the government, to the army, to the Mossad.”

“We are doing things that I cannot share at this moment, but we are striking Iran very hard, and also Lebanon,” he said, reinforcing the scale of the current military offensive.

Five injured in rocket attack on Baghdad airport

A rocket attack on Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, which houses a US diplomatic facility, wounded five people on Sunday, Iraqi authorities said.

The Iraqi government’s security media cell said “five rockets targeted Baghdad International Airport and its surrounding area, injuring four airport employees and security personnel, and an engineer”.

It added that rockets struck the airport and a water desalination plant, while others crashed near a prison where Islamic State group (IS) suspects are detained and an Iraqi airbase next to the US diplomatic facility.

Security forces seized the launchpad used for the attack in the Al-Radwaniya area southwest of Baghdad, the authorities added. Security sources told AFP that three drones were also downed near the airport.

Baghdad’s airport includes a sprawling military complex that is divided into several bases belonging to the Iraqi army and security services, as well as a US diplomatic and logistics facility, and a central prison.