Middle East crisis live: Hegseth says today will be the ‘most intense day of strikes’ in war against Iran

An update to a post from a few moments ago, US energy secretary Chris Wright has deleted a post on X which had said the US Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the strait of Hormuz “to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets”.

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It’s unclear why he deleted the post.

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Russia has denied sharing intelligence with Iran on US military assets in the Middle East, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday.

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Speaking to CNBC, Witkoff said the denial came during a phone call that Donald Trump had with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Monday, as well as in a separate call that he held earlier that day with Jared Kushner and Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov.

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Trump didn’t divulge any details about his call with Putin yesterday, saying only that it was “very good” and that the Russian president “wants to be helpful on Iran”. On the Russian side, Ushakov said the conversation was “frank” and “business-like”.

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It follows reports on Friday that Moscow was providing Tehran with targeting information that included locations and movements of US warships and aircraft in the region.

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“Yesterday on the call with the president, the Russians said that they have not been sharing,” Witkoff said when asked if Washington thought Moscow had shared intelligence about the location of US military assets with Tehran.

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He went on: “We can take them at their word. But they did say that. And yesterday morning, independently, Jared and I had a call with Ushakov who reiterated the same.”

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He added: “That’s a better question for the intel people, but let’s hope that they’re not sharing.”

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The Iranian army said on Tuesday it had targeted a military and an intelligence site in Israel, as the warring sides pressed attacks for an 11th day.

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“The army, using attack drones, struck a military centre in Haifa and the reception centre for spy satellites,” it said in a statement.

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The military centre “plays a key role in arms production and is of major strategic importance for strengthening the enemy’s combat capabilities”, added the statement carried by Tasnim news agency.

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Britain’s HMS Dragon has left Portsmouth naval base headed for the eastern Mediterranean to protect Cyprus, PA reported.

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The Type 45 destroyer is due is being sent to the eastern Mediterranean to help protect RAF bases on island, in a bid to prevent further drone or missile attacks by Iran and its proxies.

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On Monday, the UK defence secretary John Healey told MPs the warship would sail from Portsmouth “in the next couple of days”.

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It comes amid reports that landing ship RFA Lyme Bay is being prepared for a potential deployment to the region as well.

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Iran has appealed to the UN to condemn the US and Israel for a “manifest environmental crime” over the bombing of fuel storage facilities in Tehran and other cities over the weekend.

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The attacks led to the falling of acid rain across Tehran, as well as the spreading of clouds of smoke so thick they blocked out the sun and caused respiratory problems and skin irritation to residents.

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In a letter passed Monday to senior officials at the UN, including secretary general Antonio Guterres, Saeed Iravani, Iran’s UN ambassador, said the explosions had “released large quantities of hazardous compounds including hydrocarbons, sulphur, and nitrogen oxides” creating “severe air pollution and serious health risks”. Subsequent rainfall led to the “dispersion and deposition of these pollutants through highly acidic precipitation”.

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“Such developments may result in severe respiratory harm to the population and extensive environmental degradation, including the contamination of water resources and damage to ecosystems and living organisms.”

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In response, all medical in Tehran province had been placed on high alert, while Iran’s environment department had advised residents to remain indoors, Iravani said.

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“These attacks constitute a clear violation of international obligations arising under multilateral environmental agreements, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, which underscore States’ responsibility to protect the global environment and to refrain from actions that may cause widespread environmental harm.

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“The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran calls upon the United Nations and its relevant bodies to urgently address these developments and to undertake appropriate measures, including condemning environmentally destructive acts and pursuing accountability for those responsible for this manifest environmental crime.”

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More than 100,000 people in Lebanon have registered as displaced on the government platform in the past day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Tuesday.

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More than 667,000 people total have registered as displaced since the country was pulled into the US-Israeli war on Iran when the Iran-backed Hezbollah launched missiles into Israel and the Israeli military struck back, the UNHCR said.

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“During a visit yesterday to a shelter in Beirut, I met a woman in her 90s who had lost 11 members of her family during the 2024 attacks,” Karolina Lindholm Billing, the UNHCR representative in Lebanon, said in a statement. “She is now displaced again, staying in the same school that was turned into a shelter. Stories like hers illustrate the fear, uncertainty and repeated trauma families are facing.”

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The airstrikes have resulted in urgent movement into Syria, Lindholm Billing said, with Syrian authorities reporting that more than 78,000 Syrians have entered Syria from Lebanon since the airstrikes began, some of whom were Syrian refugees who ha planned on returning in the coming months but were forced to do so soon because of the conflict. More than 7,700 Lebanese joined them in entering Syria, Lindholm Billin said.

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  US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said attacks on Iran will ramp up Tuesday with the heaviest strikes since Washington launched the war 10 days ago. “Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran,” Hegseth told a news conference at the Pentagon.

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  Israel’s military announced it had begun a fresh wave of attacks on Tehran as it reiterated evacuation orders for parts of southern Lebanon, where Israel has extended its campaign against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.

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  Meanwhile, Iran launched new attacks at Gulf countries on Tuesday. Incoming missile sirens sounded early in the morning in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and in Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia said it had destroyed two drones. Kuwait’s National Guard said it had shot down six drones.

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  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they would not allow “one litre of oil” to be shipped from the Middle East if US-Israeli attacks continued. Trump responded by saying the US would hit Iran “20 times harder” if it blocked tanker traffic through the strait of Hormuz, which handles a fifth of the world’s oil supply.

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  But oil prices fell and stocks rebounded after US president Donald Trump said the war with Iran would end “very soon’. On Monday, the US president also suggested that while he was not yet declaring the US mission accomplished, the war was “very complete, pretty much”. “We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough,” he said.

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  Trump also said that the US would waive oil-related sanctions on “some countries” to ease the shortage, after speaking with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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  On Tuesday, Trump told Fox News that it’s possible that his administration could begin peace talks with Iran once again but it depends on the terms – and he noted that he “sort of” doesn’t need to talk to them anymore. Meanwhile, Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, told PBS News Hour in an interview aired Monday that “I don’t think the question of talking with Americans or negotiation with Americans once again would be on the table, because we have a very bitter experience of talking with Americans”.

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General Caine says US forces are able to move around with “relative impunity” but acknowledges “there is always a risk”.

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Commenting on Iran’s attacks on fellow Gulf states, Hegseth says:

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Big mistake by the Iranian regime in attacking it’s neighbours, right away … flailing recklessly.

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He says it demonstrates a miscalculation of the Iranian regime by pushing other countries into supporting the US campaign.

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Hegseth adds that today will be “the most intense day of strikes”, while Iran has fired its lowest number of weapons in the past 24 hours.

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General Dan Caine opens his remarks by paying tribute to the American servicemen who have died as a result of Trump’s war on Iran.

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Updating on the progress in the conflict, he says the joint force remains focussed on its three main objectives – destroying missiles and drone capability before it can threaten American interests, strike and degrade the Iranian navy and prevent the regime from being able to attack the US and its partners “for years to come”.

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Caine adds:

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Ballistic missile attacks continue to trend downwards, down 90% from when we started.

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He adds that the US is striking Iranian mine-laying missiles. The general says “this is gritty and tireless work” and expresses his pride in the performance of the joint force throughout the campaign.

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Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, kicks off by saying Operation Epic Fury “hits home” because of his own experiences in the Iraq war.

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He says the Iranians are “racing towards a nuclear bomb” and says US president Donald Trump “will never allow it”.

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Hegseth says the mullahs know that their military is being “systematically degraded” and that Iran “stands alone and is badly losing”.

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By contrast, he says, America is “winning” and is executing its objectives to destroy its missiles, its navy and “permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever”.

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He adds:

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We will not relent until the enemy is totally and entirely defeated.

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He says “this is not 2003 and it is not endless nation-building” in an attempt to put daylight between this bombing campaign and the US’s previous forays into Middle Eastern conflict.

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We’re getting lines today Fox News, the US president’s favourite broadcaster, that when pressed in an interview on whether he’d be open to talk to the Iranians, Donald Trump said that it could be possible but it depends on the terms.

n But he immediately put a dampener on that outcome, noting that he “sort of” doesn’t need to talk to them anymore, according to Bloomberg who saw Trumps comments.

n It’s worth noting here that Iran has not spoken to the US directly since 2018, when the former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned such talks. The previous round of peace negotiations were conducted through intermediaries in Oman and Switzerland.

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Earlier, Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, played down the idea of talks. “I don’t think the question of talking with Americans or negotiation with Americans once again would be on the table, because we have a very bitter experience of talking with Americans,” he told PBS News Hour in an interview that aired Monday.

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“We negotiated with them last year, in last June, and they attacked us in the middle of negotiations. And again this year, they tried to convince us that this time is different. They promised us that they don’t have any intention to attack us…but, again, after three rounds of negotiation, and after the American team in the negotiation said itself that we made a big progress, still they decided to attack us. So I don’t think talking with Americans anymore would be on our agenda anymore.”

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Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from the widening war.

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Even as Iranians filled the streets to mark the appointment of a new supreme leader, the Shahran oil depot north-east of Tehran and the Shahr-e fuel depot to its south continued to burn on Monday, two days after they were bombed by Israeli warplanes.

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In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, Iran’s environmental agency and the Iranian Red Crescent Society had warned Tehran residents to stay at home, warning the toxic chemicals spread by airstrikes on five fossil fuel installations around the city could lead to acid rain and damage the skin and lungs.

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On Monday, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: “Damage to petroleum facilities in Iran risks contaminating food, water and air – hazards that can have severe health impacts especially on children, older people, and people with pre-existing medical conditions.”

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A spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry on Tuesday had harsh words for Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission.

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In response to von der Leyen’s remarks that the “people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, and the right to decide their own future”, Esmaeil Baqaei posted on X: “Please spare the hypocrisy”.

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“You’ve made a career out of standing on the wrong side of history — green-lighting occupation, genocide, and atrocities, and now laundering U.S./Israeli crime of aggression and war crimes against Iranians,” Baqaei wrote.

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Baqaei continued: “Where was your voice when more than 165 innocent IRANIAN little angels were massacred in the city of Minab? Why don’t you say anything when hospitals, historical sites, oil facilities, diplomatic police headquarter, firefighting stations and residential neighborhoods are wickedly targeted?

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“Silence in the face of lawlessness and atrocity is nothing less than complicity.”

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The bombing of a primary school in Minab on 28 February killed scores of people, most of them seven- to 12-year-old girls. The strike is the worst mass killing of the US and Israel’s war on Iran so far – and has been described by Unesco as a “grave violation” of international law.

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On Saturday, the US president, Donald Trump, declared that Iran was responsible for the school bombing. “In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran … they’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.”

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The president presented no evidence for his claim. His assertion has not been repeated by spokespeople for the US military, who have said only that they are “investigating” the bombing.

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But a growing body of evidence indicates that the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was carried out by the US. Here is what we know – and why it points to the US being responsible.

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Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, said that with the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late ayatollah, as Iran’s new supreme leader, the US and Israel have failed in their goal for a regime change.

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In an interview with PBS News Hour that aired Monday night, Araghchi said that he did not think that US and Israel have a realistic endgame and are now just sowing chaos.

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“They thought that, in a matter of two or three days, they can go for a regime change, they can go for a rapid, clean victory, but they failed…they failed to achieve their goals at the beginning, and now, after 10 days, I think they are aimless,” Araghchi said.

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When asked about the widespread disruptions the conflict has caused in the delivery of oil, which in turn is causing volatility across markets worldwide, Araghchi maintained that the spike in oil prices was not Iran’s fault.

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“This is not our plan,” Araghchi said. “The oil production, the transportation of oil has been slowed down or stopped not because of us, because of the attacks and aggression made by Israelis and Americans against us. So they have made the whole region insecure. And this is why the tankers, the ships are scared to pass through the strait of Hormuz.

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He continued “We have not closed that strait. We have not – we are not preventing them to navigate in that strait. But this is the result of the aggression by Israelis and Americans, which has made the whole region insecure, unstable.”

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When anchor Amna Nawaz pushed Araghchi on the issue, pointing out that the Irani military had conducted airstrikes on multiple oil facilities in other nations – and that a spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards had said: “If you can tolerate oil at more than $200 per barrel, continue this game” – Araghchi maintained that “what we are doing is only defending ourselves”.

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“We are facing an act of aggression, which is absolutely illegal. And what we are doing is the act of self-defense, which is legal and legitimate. Well, we have already warned everybody in the region that, if the US attacks us, since we cannot reach the American soil, we have to attack their bases in the region, their facilities, their installations, their assets.

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“And as a result, the war would be spread into the whole region. So this is the consequences, the consequence of the U.S. aggression against us. We are not responsible for that.”

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In comments made during a visit to the National Health Command Centre on Monday night, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s war on Iran is ‘not done yet’, AFP reports.

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“Our aspiration is to bring the Iranian people to cast off the yoke of tyranny; ultimately, it depends on them. But there is no doubt that with the actions taken so far, we are breaking their bones – and we are not done yet,” Netanyahu said.

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The Israeli military has issued a warning that its forces will be targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in the area of Tyre and Sidon on the western coast of southern Lebanon.

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Earlier, the Israeli military warned that it would also be operating in the area south of the Litani river, about 74 kilometres (46 miles) south of the capital of Beirut.

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Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israeli military, reiterated earlier evacuation orders and urged residents in all those areas to leave.

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French president Emmanual Macron has used a visit to Cyprus to announce that France and its allies are preparing “a purely defensive, purely support mission” to reopen the strait of Hormuz, where dozens of ships have been stranded since the start of the war.

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On a one-day trip to the eastern Mediterranean island – the EU’s nearest member state to the Middle East – he said the mission would start “as soon as possible after the most intense phase of the conflict is over”.

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Greece’s shipping minister has described the situation in the strait as “alarming”, saying numerous tankers have found themselves stuck in the key waterway since the US and Israeli airstrikes against Iran began. Around a fifth of the world’s oil supplies pass through the strait every day.

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“It is essential for international trade, but also for the flow of gas and oil, which must be able to leave this region once again,” Macron told reporters.

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The French leader also pledged that the European Union would do everything possible to stand by Cyprus where several EU nations have rushed to deploy warships and fighter jets following a drone strike against a British base on the island.

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More on that here:

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If you’re just tuning in to our live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran, here’s a recap of the latest key developments. It’s 10.30am in Tehran, 9am in Beirut and Tel Aviv and 3am in Washington DC.

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  Donald Trump said the war was “very complete, pretty much” and ahead of schedule. But the US president also suggested as it enters its 11th day that he was not yet declaring the US mission accomplished, saying: “We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough.”

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  Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said his country was prepared to continue missile attacks for as long as necessary and that talks with the US were no longer on the agenda.

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  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they would not allow “one litre of oil” to be shipped from the Middle East if US-Israeli attacks continued. Trump responded by saying the US would hit Iran “20 times harder” if it blocked tanker traffic through the strait of Hormuz, which handles a fifth of the world’s oil supply.

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  Oil prices tumbled from four-year highs and global shares rallied after Trump suggested the Iran war could end “very soon”.

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  Israel’s military said it had launched new attacks in central Iran and struck the Lebanese capital of Beirut, where Israel has extended its campaign against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.

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  Four fighters from the Iran-backed Kataeb Imam Ali group were killed on Tuesday in airstrikes blamed on the US in northern Iraq, the armed faction said.

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  Trump said the US would waive oil-related sanctions on “some countries” to ease the shortage, after speaking with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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  Tehran was choked in black smoke after an oil refinery was hit, an escalation in strikes on Iran’s domestic energy supplies.

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  Turkey said Nato air defences had shot down a ballistic missile that was fired from Iran and entered Turkish airspace.

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  In Australia, the government said five Iranian women’s football team players had been granted humanitarian visas after they sought asylum fearing persecution in Iran.

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  At least 1,332 Iranian civilians have been killed and thousands wounded since the US and Israel began attacking on 28 February, according to Iran’s UN ambassador.
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The group said its fighters were killed in an “American aggression” on their position in the Debs district in Kirkuk province, the AFP news agency reports.

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Iran’s foreign minister has said his country is prepared to continue attacks for as long as necessary.

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Abbas Araghchi also ruled out talks with the US after Donald Trump said the war with Iran would be over “very soon”.

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Araghchi made the comments to the US broadcaster PBS News on Tuesday, cited by AFP.

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He said Iran was prepared to continue missile attacks and that negotiations with the US were no longer on the agenda.

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Syria has said Hezbollah fired artillery shells into its territory from Lebanon overnight, state media reported on Tuesday.

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Syrian army officials said artillery shells fired from Lebanon landed near the town of Serghaya, west of Damascus, reported the state news agency Sana, cited by AFP.

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The army accused Hezbollah of targeting Syrian army positions, telling Sana it observed Hezbollah reinforcements at the Syrian-Lebanese border.

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“The Syrian Arab army will not tolerate any aggression targeting Syria,” the army said in a statement to Sana.

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Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of then Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes.

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Hezbollah and Israeli forces have clashed in eastern Lebanon in recent days, while Israeli forces have carried out strikes across Lebanon.

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Lebanese president Joseph Aoun accused Hezbollah of working to “collapse” the state, while the head of the group’s parliamentary bloc said it had “no other option… than the option of resistance”.

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Australia’s government confirmed earlier today that it has offered humanitarian visas to five Iranian football players who have been in the country for the Asian Cup.

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Now protesters have briefly blocked a bus taking Iranian women’s football team members out of their hotel on Australia’s Gold Coast.

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Andrew Messenger reports:

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The group of a few dozen physically sat in front of the vehicle to block it. They chanted “save our girls” as the vehicle attempted to make its exit. Protesters say they believe the bus is heading to the Gold Coast airport.

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A group of Queensland police officers moved them on.

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The bus is now leaving.

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The Guardian saw at least one of the football players through the window in tears.

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A protester who was inside the Gold Coast hotel where the Iranian football players were staying said they saw one of the players being walked onto the bus by a minder who appeared to be holding her wrist.

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Hello and welcome to our continuing coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran and wider Middle East crisis. Here are the major developments.

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  Donald Trump described the Iran war as a “short-term excursion” and said it would end “very soon”, as the assault continued in its second week. He said the war was “very complete, pretty much” and ahead of schedule, a significant shift from his previous suggestions it could last several weeks. But the US president also indicated he was not yet declaring the US mission accomplished, saying: “We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough.” The operation would only end once Tehran no longer had any capacity of weaponry against the US, Israel or any US allies in the region for a long time, he added later. Here’s our report, plus analysis on what our global affairs correspondent Andrew Roth called a vague and contradictory press conference by the president.

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  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has said Tehran will not allow “one litre of oil” to be exported from the region if US-Israeli attacks continue. Trump then threatened to hit the Islamic republic far harder if it stopped the flow of oil in the vital strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that it would “determine the end of the war”, after Trump earlier said the conflict would end “soon”.

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  Oil prices surged by 20% to a four-year high before coming back down below $90 a barrel after Trump’s suggestion the war would end soon. Iran earlier mocked the US over the rocketing oil price, branding its campaign “Operation Epic Mistake”.

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  Trump twice declined to say whether or not Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei had a target on his back, saying only that he was “disappointed” and thought he was “going to lead to just more of the same problem for the country”. It came after a day of Trump being dismissive of the late ayatollah’s son – saying his selection was a “big mistake” – and reiterating that Trump still wants to be involved in the selection of a leader. Israel, meanwhile, has openly vowed to target the new supreme leader.

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  Large crowds took to the streets in Tehran in a defiant show of support for Khamenei.

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  Israel launched its second wave of strikes today against Tehran. The Israeli military claimed it had started a broad wave of strikes against “terror targets” in the Iranian capital, but it has been hitting critical energy and fuel infrastructure that serves ordinary Iranians.

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  Israel also pressed its offensive against Hezbollah with raids in southern Lebanon and airstrikes in Beirut. Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 486 people, including at least 83 children, since 2 March, Lebanese state news reported, citing the country’s health ministry. At least 600,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon, sparking fears of a humanitarian catastrophe.

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  Fresh Iranian missile and drone attacks also targeted Israel, US bases across the Middle East and energy infrastructure in the Gulf.

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  British Typhoon jets intercepted drones heading towards Jordan and Bahrain, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said.

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  Turkey said Nato defences shot down a ballistic missile in its airspace, the second intercepted missile from Iran in a ​week.

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  Five female Iranian footballers have been granted humanitarian visas by Australia following an appeal from Trump to prime minister Anthony Albanese. Our story is here.

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And a spokesperson for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has also denied the claim made in a now-deleted post by the US energy secretary that a US warship escorted a tanker through the strait of Hormuz without incident.

“None of the US warships during the war even dared to approach the Sea of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the strait of Hormuz”, the spokesperson told Al-Jazeera.

Further to that last post, a US official has clarified to Reuters that the US military has not escorted any ships through the strait of Hormuz so far, after US energy secretary Chris Wright deleted an X post that had said the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the strait.

US energy secretary deletes post about Navy escorting vessel through strait of Hormuz

An update to a post from a few moments ago, US energy secretary Chris Wright has deleted a post on X which had said the US Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the strait of Hormuz “to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets”.

It’s unclear why he deleted the post.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is due to brief reporters shortly, on day 11 of the US-Israeli war on Iran. I’ll bring you any relevant lines here.

Russia told Trump it isn’t sharing US military asset intel with Iran, says US special envoy

Russia has denied sharing intelligence with Iran on US military assets in the Middle East, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday.

Speaking to CNBC, Witkoff said the denial came during a phone call that Donald Trump had with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Monday, as well as in a separate call that he held earlier that day with Jared Kushner and Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov.

Trump didn’t divulge any details about his call with Putin yesterday, saying only that it was “very good” and that the Russian president “wants to be helpful on Iran”. On the Russian side, Ushakov said the conversation was “frank” and “business-like”.

It follows reports on Friday that Moscow was providing Tehran with targeting information that included locations and movements of US warships and aircraft in the region.

“Yesterday on the call with the president, the Russians said that they have not been sharing,” Witkoff said when asked if Washington thought Moscow had shared intelligence about the location of US military assets with Tehran.

He went on: “We can take them at their word. But they did say that. And yesterday morning, independently, Jared and I had a call with Ushakov who reiterated the same.”

He added: “That’s a better question for the intel people, but let’s hope that they’re not sharing.”

US energy secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday said the US Navy escorted an oil tanker through the strait of Hormuz, in what was understood to be the first such operation since the launch of the US-Israel war on Iran.

Oil was already down on Tuesday, but dropped past 15% after the announcement of the US escort.

“The US Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets,” Wright posted on social media, as fighting raged in a war that has roiled oil markets and brought many shipments of the commodity to a standstill.

Anna Betts

Cardinal Robert W McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, has said that the US-Israeli war with Iran is “not morally legitimate”, going further than the pope has done in his more moderate appeals for an end to the war.

In an interview with the Catholic Standard this week, McElroy said “the criterion of just cause is not met because our country was not responding to an existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran.”

“As Pope Benedict declared categorically, Catholic teaching does not support preventative war, ie a war justified by speculation about events in the future,” he said. “If preventative war were to be accepted morally, then all limits to the cause for going to war would be put in extreme jeopardy.”

McElroy also argued that the conflict fails the “criterion of right intention” arguing that in his opinion, “one of the most worrying elements of these first days of the war in Iran is that our goals and intentions are absolutely unclear, ranging from the destruction of Iran’s conventional and nuclear weapons potential to the overthrow of its regime to the establishment of a democratic government to unconditional surrender,” he said. “You cannot satisfy the just war tradition’s criterion of right intention if you do not have a clear intention.”

He added that “our current war effort does not meet Catholic just war teaching because it is far from clear that the benefits of this war will outweigh the harm which will be done.”

Lisa O’Carroll

The Iran war has thrown global oil and gas flows into chaos and the prospect of Donald Trump easing US sanctions on Russian oil to fill the gap is causing a nightmare for the EU.

The European Council president, António Costa, who represents the EU’s leaders, said on Tuesday the only winner from the ongoing conflict would be Vladimir Putin, who could step into the gap created by the throttling of Gulf supplies.

So how are Brussels and individual member states reacting to a crisis that in just 24 hours sent the oil price to almost $120 a barrel, before swinging back to nearer $90?

Donald Trump has held an astonishing press conference in which he said the war in Iran was ‘very complete’ and could end ‘very soon’, but also claimed that the US had not ‘won enough’.

The US president is under growing pressure over the economic toll from the conflict, but his words were met with defiance from Tehran. So is the war any closer to ending and has Trump underestimated the resilience of the Iranian regime?

Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik…

Iranian army says it has targeted a military and an intelligence site in Israel

The Iranian army said on Tuesday it had targeted a military and an intelligence site in Israel, as the warring sides pressed attacks for an 11th day.

“The army, using attack drones, struck a military centre in Haifa and the reception centre for spy satellites,” it said in a statement.

The military centre “plays a key role in arms production and is of major strategic importance for strengthening the enemy’s combat capabilities”, added the statement carried by Tasnim news agency.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff, a top adviser to president Donald Trump, said in a CNBC interview on Tuesday that he probably will travel to Israel next week to coordinate on Iran war plans.

UK’s HMS Dragon headed for eastern Mediterranean to bolster Cyprus defence

Britain’s HMS Dragon has left Portsmouth naval base headed for the eastern Mediterranean to protect Cyprus, PA reported.

The Type 45 destroyer is due is being sent to the eastern Mediterranean to help protect RAF bases on island, in a bid to prevent further drone or missile attacks by Iran and its proxies.

On Monday, the UK defence secretary John Healey told MPs the warship would sail from Portsmouth “in the next couple of days”.

It comes amid reports that landing ship RFA Lyme Bay is being prepared for a potential deployment to the region as well.

Ben Quinn

In Britain, Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing start-up party has called for the lifting of “punitive sanctions” that are hurting Iranians, in a move which it said went further than the position of its rivals, the Green party.

In a moment of agreement following months of bitter internal divisions, Your Party said on Tuesday that a statement on Iran had been unanimously agreed by its Central Executive Committee (CEC), which included both Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.

The statement called on the government to halt the use of British military bases to attack Iran, adding that a claim that only defensive operations are being launched from UK bases had been “exposed as a sham” by a comment from the US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who said that British bases are being used for a “dramatic surge” in attacks.

“More than a thousand civilians are reported to have already been killed by US-Israeli bombing in Iran – including more than a hundred girls who were killed when their primary school in the Iranian town of Minab was obliterated,” it added.

“Ordinary Iranians now being bombed are already suffering from economic sanctions, which should be lifted to provide relief.”

After he won a comprehensive victory to become the de facto leader of the leftwing startup party, last month, party sources said Corbyn will seek to rebuild bridges with pro-Gaza communities “alienated” by Labour, and also work with the Greens.

Ukrainian military experts are due this week in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy told journalists on Tuesday, where they will share expertise on downing Iranian drones.

“The first three countries to which we sent them, according to our agreements, are Qatar, the Emirates, and Saudi Arabia,” Zelenskyy said in an audio message sent to reporters, including AFP.

Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on Tuesday that any attack on the Islamic republic’s infrastructure would result in a tit-for-tat response.

“The enemy should know that whatever they do, undoubtedly it will have a proportionate and immediate response,” Ghalibaf wrote on X, more than a week into the Middle East war that began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

“We today go with the rule of ’an eye for an eye’, without compromise, without exception,” he said. “If they start a war on infrastructure, we will undoubtedly target infrastructure.”

Denmark and the Netherlands announced Tuesday that they are relocating their respective embassy staff in Tehran to Azerbaijan.

The move follows Spain, Austria and Italy, which are among the countries to have temporarily closed and relocate their embassies to Baku in recent days as the US-Israel war on Iran continues.

“Due to the growing security risks for our employees, it has been decided to temporarily transfer the activities of the Dutch embassy in Iran to Baku, Azerbaijan,” Dutch foreign minister Tom Berendsen said on X.

“If the security situation allows, we will decide when and in what form our embassy in Iran can resume its activities in Tehran,” he added.

Iran’s intelligence ministry announced on Tuesday the arrests of 30 people accused of spying, including one foreigner, on the 11th day of the Middle East war.

The foreigner, whose nationality was not revealed, “was spying on behalf of two Persian Gulf countries in the name of the American-Zionist enemy” and was arrested in northeastern Iran, the ministry said in a statement published by the judiciary’s Mizan Online news portal.

Hannah Ellis-Petersen

On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates reported intercepting another eight missiles and 26 drones over their territory as Iran continued its barrage of the Gulf state. But as the war dragged into its eleventh day, life in the UAE’s biggest and flashiest city of Dubai had mostly returned to normal.

Though emptied of thousands of tourists who initially fled in fear, people still flocked to the beaches, malls and rooftop bars in their droves. Commercial flights also restarted as the country’s airspace tentatively reopened, even as UAE’s leaders condemned the ongoing “blatant Iranian aggression”.

Many of the 4 million residents of the desert metropolis appeared quite unfazed by the ongoing conflict, deeming it low risk to their lives. So far, six people across the UAE have died from falling missile debris, but the country’s defence systems have mostly proved effective and there’s been no substantial damage to Dubai’s lofty skyline.

“They say it’s a war but it’s caused no problem for us, we don’t really see it at all,” said Nader Farid, 30, who moved from Egypt to Dubai five months ago to work in real estate, as he sat on the beach.

“The first day was scary when they warned about incoming missiles. But now it’s been more than a week and life here just goes on, only business is a bit slower. I’m from Egypt, I know that nowhere is safe from war. But this one does not feel bad. We are very protected here.”

Stranded holidaymakers such as Trish Patton, 62, from Glasgow, said she and her partner had been stuck in Dubai for nine days waiting for a flight home. They had been due to fly back the day the war broke out.

“It’s been very surreal and very scary at times,” she said. “Especially when we got the alerts on our phones, saying there may be missiles in your area, it’s pretty terrifying. On the first day it started, there were three drones right above us and we heard the explosions of them being shot down.”

After a week of trying, the couple finally had a flight back to Glasgow on Wednesday. “I’m happy to have survived and I’ll be even happier to be home,” said Patton. “I hope for everyone’s sake this war is over soon.”

Here are some images coming out of Lebanon today: