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The Israeli military is prepared to continue its war with Iran for “as long as necessary”, a spokesperson told reporters late on Wednesday.

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“We as an army are prepared to continue the campaign as long as necessary,” he said, as quoted by Reuters.

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Earlier, the Isreali defence minister, Israel Katz, conveyed similar sentiments, saying that the war “will continue without any time limit”.

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The operation will continue without any time limit, as long as required, until we accomplish all objectives and achieve victory in the campaign.

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The Israeli military said on Wednesday night that it had begun a “large-scale wave of strikes” on Beirut’s suburbs after Hezbollah launched what the IDF said were “dozens” of rockets.

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The IDF claimed the strikes targeted what it described as “Hezbollah infrastructure” in the densely populated Dahieh suburb of southern Beirut.

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In the 12 days since the US and Israel launched war on Iran, Israel’s renewed bombing campaign across Lebanon and its invasion of border areas with ground troops have killed more than 570 people, according to Lebanese authorities. This includes at least 83 children, according to Unicef.

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Some 750,000 have been displaced after being forced to flee the violence, sparking fears of a humanitarian catastrophe if conditions continue unabated.

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Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president, has demanded that reparations and security guarantees be included in any agreement to end the war started by the United States and Israel.

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He wrote on X:

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Talking to leaders of Russia and Pakistan, I reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to peace in the region.

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The only way to end this war – ignited by the Zionist regime and US – is recognising Iran’s legitimate rights, payment of reparations, and firm international guarantees against future aggression.

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The Trump administration, meanwhile, has said that Donald Trump will decide when to end the war on Iran, and the US president has demanded Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” before that happens.

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On Iran’s new leadership, Donald Trump added:

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We knocked out twice their leadership, and now they have a new group coming up. Let’s see what happens to them.

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A reminder that Trump has consistently expressed strong disapproval of Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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In recent days, Trump has said his appointment was a “big mistake” and suggested he wouldn’t “last long” without US approval. He has told reporters that he’s “disappointed” and “not happy” with the selection, having previously called Khamenei a “lightweight” and an “unacceptable choice” to succeed his father.

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The US president has also declined to rule out the younger Khamenei as a military target (Israel, meanwhile, has vowed to target the new supreme leader).

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More from Donald Trump, who has in the last few moments been speaking on a visit to a life science and clinical research company in Ohio.

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He repeated comments he’s made this week that US military operations in Iran are “a couple of weeks … few weeks of excursion”.

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Asked by a reporter whether the US-Israeli conflict with Iran is a “little excursion” or a “war”, Trump said:

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It’s both.

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It’s an excursion that will keep us out of a war; for them it’s a war, for us it turned out to be easier than we thought.

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The Iran-US-Israeli war has plunged the Middle East into chaos, but defining the system of alliances in this war is a complex question.

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The Guardian’s Beirut-based reporter, Will Christou, explains who is supporting Iran, who is supporting the US and Israel, and what their support actually equates to.

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Donald Trump earlier spoke to reporters briefly outside the White House. Asked what it will take for the war in Iran to end, he said:

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More of the same. And we’ll see how that all comes out.

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They’ve lost their navy. They’ve lost their air force. They have no anti-aircraft apparatus at all. They have no radar. Their leaders are gone. And we could do a lot worse.

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He boasted that the US has hit Iran “harder than virtually any country in history has been hit”, before adding, “we’re not finished yet”.

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Earlier, the US president told Axios that the war would end “soon” since the there is “practically nothing left to target” in Iran.

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In 1983, the CIA determined that the most crucial commodity in the Gulf was its desalinated potable water.

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Although the loss of a single plant could be handled, “successful attacks on several plants in the most dependent countries could generate a national crisis that could lead to panic flights from the country and civil unrest”. And the greatest threat to the region’s water supply? “Iran.”

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That’s why, four decades later, the world held its breath on Saturday when Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, accused the US of “a blatant and desperate crime” by attacking a desalination plant on the island of Qeshm, in the strait of Hormuz. “The US set this precedent, not Iran,” he said.

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The US denied responsibility for the attack. But the next day, on the other side of the Gulf, Bahrain announced one of its own desalination plants had been hit. The alleged culprit: “Iranian aggression.”

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  Three ships were hit by unknown projectiles in the strategic strait of Hormuz abutting Iran. Two of the ships sustained damage, while another, which the Thai navy identified as a Thai bulk carrier, caught fire, forcing the crew to evacuate.

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  The International Energy Agency has ordered the largest release of government oil reserves in its history in an effort to calm the oil price shock triggered by the US-Israeli attacks on Iran. All 32 members of the world’s energy watchdog agreed unanimously to release about 400m barrels of emergency crude, a third of the group’s total government stockpiles and more than double the IEA’s previous biggest release, the IEA said.

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  Iran’s military on Wednesday said any ships belonging to the United States, Israel or their allies passing through the strategic strait of Hormuz could be targeted. “Any vessel whose oil cargo or the vessel itself belongs to the United States, the Zionist regime or their hostile allies will be considered legitimate targets,” said the military’s central operational command, Khatam Al-Anbiya, in a statement carried by state TV.

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  Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was injured in the 28 February attack that killed six of his family members, including his father, Tehran’s ambassador to Cyprus has confirmed. In an interview conducted at his embassy compound in Nicosia, Alireza Salarian elaborated on the circumstances in which Khamenei, 56, was injured, saying he was lucky to survive the strike, which levelled the late ayatollah’s residence.

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  The deadly strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran, that left at least 175 people, mostly children, dead was the result of an American missile attack, the New York Times reports. Outdated targeting data was the cause of the tragedy, with US bombs hitting the school complex which was previously part of a nearby Iranian military base, sources told the New York Times.

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  Iran has deployed about a dozen mines in the strait of Hormuz, two sources familiar with the matter said, in a move likely to complicate the reopening of the narrow waterway, an important route for shipping oil and liquefied natural gas. One source told Reuters that the locations of most of the mines are known but declined to say how the US planned to deal with them.

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  Israel pounded Lebanon with a new wave of attacks, setting an apartment block in central Beirut alight. Earlier strikes in southern Lebanon killed five people in the Nabatieh district and two in the Tyre district.

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  US forces have conducted airstrikes on more than 5,500 targets inside Iran, Adm Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, said in a post on X. Cooper provided an update on Wednesday on US operations in the Middle East, in which he said US forces “continue delivering devastating combat power against the Iranian regime”.

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  The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said on Wednesday that the joint bombing campaign with the US against Iran would go on “as long as necessary”, insisting the strikes had inflicted heavy casualties on Tehran’s forces. “This operation will continue without any time limit, as long as necessary, until we achieve all the objectives and decide the outcome of the campaign,” he said, adding that the Iranian leadership was fleeing “like mice into tunnels”.

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Iran has deployed about a dozen mines in the strait of Hormuz, two sources familiar with the matter said, in a move likely to complicate the reopening of the narrow waterway, an important route for shipping oil and liquefied natural gas.

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One source told Reuters that the locations of most of the mines are known but declined to say how the US planned to deal with them. CNN first reported the mining of the strait on Tuesday.

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However, on Wednesday afternoon, French president Emmanuel Macron said there was “no confirmation” that Iran had deployed mines in strait

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The deadly strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran, that left at least 175 people, mostly children, dead was the result of an American missile attack, the New York Times reports.

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Outdated targeting data was the cause of the tragedy, with US bombs hitting the school complex which was previously part of a nearby Iranian military base, sources told the New York Times.

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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. Most of the deaths were girls aged between seven and 12.

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US Central Command created the target coordinates using data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the New York Times reported. It added that the findings were preliminary and that questions still remain over why the outdated data was not double-checked.

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On Saturday, the US president, Donald Trump, declared that Iran was responsible for the attack.

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He said: “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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For more on this, follow our US politics live blog. My colleague Shrai Popat has the latest here:

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On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators were expected to march through London for al-Quds Day, an annual demonstration in support of Palestinian rights. But the march, which has taken place in the UK for more than 40 years, has been banned by home secretary, Shabana Mahmood.

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Announcing her decision to ban the march after a request by the Metropolitan police, Mahmood said she was “satisfied doing so is necessary to prevent serious public disorder, due to the scale of the protest and multiple counterprotests, in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East”.

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It is the first time a protest march has been banned since 2012.

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The Guardian’s Jillian Ambrose and Joanna Partridge report that International Energy Agency has ordered the largest release of government oil reserves in its history in an effort to calm the oil price shock triggered by the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

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All 32 members of the world’s energy watchdog agreed unanimously to release about 400m barrels of emergency crude, a third of the group’s total government stockpiles and more than double the IEA’s previous biggest release, the IEA said.

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Follow along with our live coverage here.

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In a five-minute interview with Axios on Wednesday, Donald Trump said that the war with Iran will end “soon” because there is “practically nothing left to target”.

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“Any time I want it to end, it will end,” Trump said.

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The US president later said that the war “is going great”.

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“The war is going great,” Trump said. “We are way ahead of the timetable. We have done more damage than we thought possible, even in the original six-week period.”

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US forces have conducted airstrikes on more than 5,500 targets inside Iran, Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, said in a post on X.

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Cooper provided an update on Wednesday on US operations in the Middle East, in which he said US forces “continue delivering devastating combat power against the Iranian regime”.

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“I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: US combat power is building. Iranian combat power is declining,” Cooper said. “We remain centreed on very clear military objectives and eliminating Iran’s ability to project power against Americans and against its neighbours.”

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Cooper noted that on Tuesday, US conducted strike waves nearly every hour. He characterised the strikes as “unpredictable, dynamic and decisive” and made a point to say that the US military is not just “defending against Iranian threats”. “We are methodically dismantling them,” he said.

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At one point, a US strike knocked out a large ballistic missile manufacturing facility in Iran, Cooper said.

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“It’s not just about what is shooting at us today,” Cooper said. “It’s also about eliminating the threat in the future.”

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Iran’s military on Wednesday said any ships belonging to the United States, Israel or their allies passing through the strategic strait of Hormuz could be targeted.

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“Any vessel whose oil cargo or the vessel itself belongs to the United States, the Zionist regime or their hostile allies will be considered legitimate targets,” said the military’s central operational command, Khatam Al-Anbiya, in a statement carried by state TV.

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It reiterated that Iran’s armed forces “will not allow a single litre of oil to transit” through the strait.

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It comes as Iran’s revolutionary guards claimed to have fired at the Thai-flagged bulk vessel Mayuree Naree in the strait earlier today.

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  Three ships were hit by unknown projectiles in the strategic strait of Hormuz abutting Iran. Two of the ships sustained damage, while another, which the Thai navy identified as a Thai bulk carrier, caught fire, forcing the crew to evacuate.

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  In more Hormuz news, US Central Command said that it “eliminated” 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump had initially said there had been “no reports” of Iran placing mines in the strait, but warned that if it had, they must be moved “IMMEDIATELY” or Iran would face military consequences “at a level never seen before”. US officials earlier told CBS News that Iran may be preparing to deploy naval mines in the strait to further disrupt the crucial shipping lane. According to CNN, a few dozen mines have been laid in recent days.

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  Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is “safe and sound” despite war injuries, said Yousef Pezeshkian, a government adviser and the son of Iran’s president, on Wednesday. State television had called Khamenei, 56, a “wounded veteran of the Ramadan war” but never specified his injury. The comments come amid speculation over the health and whereabouts of Khamenei, who has not engaged with the public since he succeeded his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three days ago.

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  The Israeli military said it had begun a “wide-scale wave” of strikes on targets in Iran and Lebanon. It followed the IDF saying earlier that it had struck key command centres of the Iranian armed forces in Tehran and Tabriz. In Lebanon, 84 people were killed in Israeli attacks and strikes just yesterday, bringing the overall death toll to 570 since the start of the conflict.

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  Iran launched missiles and drones across the Gulf, including toward Israel, the Israeli military said on Wednesday, and at oil infrastrucure in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said early Wednesday it destroyed five drones heading toward the kingdom’s vast Shaybah oil field in the Empty Quarter desert while Kuwait said it downed eight drones over the tiny, oil-rich nation. Bahrain also sounded sirens early Wednesday, warning of an incoming Iranian attack. The warnings came a day after an Iranian attack hit a residential building in the capital, Manama, and killed a 29-year-old woman and wounding eight people.

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  A drone struck a major US diplomatic facility in Iraq on Tuesday in suspected retaliation by pro-Tehran militias over the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Washington Post reported, citing an unidentified security official and an internal US state department alert.

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  Dutch carrier KLM announced on Wednesday that it was cancelling all flights to Dubai up to and including 28 March because of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The announcement came just hours after four people were injured when air defences intercepted two drones near Dubai airport.

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Dutch carrier KLM announced on Wednesday that it was cancelling all flights to Dubai up to and including 28 March because of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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“The safety of our passengers and crew is always our top priority,” the airline said in a statement, adding that KLM remains available to help with the repatriation of stranded passengers.

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The announcement came just hours after four people were injured after air defences intercepted two drones near Dubai airport.

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A Thai bulk carrier was attacked in the strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, with the Thai navy accounting for 20 crew members members rescued so far, the AFP reports.

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The Thai-registered Mayuree Naree was attacked in the strait after leaving Khalifa port in the United Arab Emirates, the navy said, adding that the specific details and cause of the attack are under investigation.

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“Efforts are currently underway to rescue the remaining three crew members,” the Thai navy said.

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The carrier is owned by a Thai transport company, Precious Shipping, the AFP reports, and was heading to Kandla in India.

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The strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman, is one of the world’s most strategically important choke points. The straight, located south of Iran, would normally have about 100 vessels a day either exiting or entering the Gulf. About one-fifth of the world’s oil passes through the strait.

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In response to the US and Israeli airstrikes, Iran has effectively shut the strait, attacking at least 10 ships since the start of the conflict. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said earlier this week it will not allow even “one litre of oil” to leave the region if US-Israeli attacks continue.

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Lebanon’s ministry of public health has updated the death roll to 570 killed in Lebanon since the start of the conflict – 84 were killed in attacks and strikes just yesterday.

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The number of injured has risen to 1,444, with 131 injured yesterday.

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Among those killed was Youssef Assaf, a Red Cross paramedic, the health ministry said in a statement condemning the targeting of ambulances and emergency responders.

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Britain’s support for US military action against Iran came a “little too late” but Keir Starmer’s relationship with Donald Trump can be repaired, according to one of the president’s closest confidants, Steve Witkoff.

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The comments by Witkoff, who has been Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, come after a series of public broadsides by the US leader against the prime minister an the UK’s position on American and Israeli strikes on Iran.

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Starmer sought to repair fractured relations on Sunday in a telephone call with Trump, after the latter had declared on social media “We don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won.”

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That comment came days after Trump had complained that Starmer “took far too long” to allow US forces to use UK airbases, and later commented witheringly about Starmer to reporters: “This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.”

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However, Witkoff said in an interview with GB News: “He has said, as you know that it is a little bit – it does fall into the category of too little too late, but I think they have a good, solid relationship, and hopefully they’ll be able to repair it. I go by what the President says, and the President says continuously that everybody is entitled to their point of view. But I think sometimes we detect that there’s not that feeling of gratitude.”

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“I think the President’s position is that we do plenty for Europe, plenty for the UK, in the area of trade, in the area of defence, in the area of the support we give to NATO. And I think sometimes the response back, the reciprocity back, is a little bit lacking. I would leave it at that, okay?”

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On 28 February, 32-year-old Mary Ann De Vera, a Filipino working as a carer, became the first casualty of the conflict in Israel. She was killed in Tel Aviv after being hit by shrapnel while escorting her employer, an older woman, to a shelter. Her employer survived.

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The Middle East is one of the main destinations for Filipinos who work abroad, and the salaries offered in the region – in jobs ranging from domestic work and healthcare, to construction and engineering – can be many times higher those available back home. In the Philippines, those who go abroad to work are praised by politicians as modern day heroes, because of the tens of billions of dollars they remit home every year.

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But such work comes at a high personal cost. They endure long periods away from children and partners, and can be vulnerable to abuse and mistreatment, especially in countries with a kafala (sponsorship) system, where workers are heavily dependent on their employers.

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Over recent years, pressures have increased pressures further, with workers facing instability through the pandemic, and, for the 31,000 Filipinos based in Israel, repeated bouts of conflict.

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Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is “safe and sound” despite war injuries, said Yousef Pezeshkian, a government adviser and the son of Iran’s president, on Wednesday.

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Posting to his Telegram channel, Pezeshkian said:

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I heard news that Mr Mojtaba Khamenei had been injured. I have asked some friends who had connections. They told me that, thank God, he is safe and sound.

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State television had called Khamenei, 56, a “wounded veteran of the Ramadan war” but never specified his injury.

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The comments come amid speculation over the health and whereabouts of Khamenei, who has not engaged with the public since he succeeded his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three days ago.

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According to the New York Times, Khamenei was injured on the opening day of the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran, citing three Iranian and two Israeli officials who spoke anonymously.

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An unknown projectile has hit a second ship in the strategic Strait of Hormuz abutting Iran, causing a fire and forcing the crew to evacuate, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Wednesday.

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It has been reported that a cargo vessel has been hit by an unknown projectile in the Straits of Hormuz which has resulted in a fire onboard.

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The vessel has requested assistance and the crew are evacuating, the agency said.

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Earlier on Wednesday, the agency reported another attack on a container ship 25 nautical miles (29 miles) northwest of the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.

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The Master of a container vessel has reported that the vessel has sustained damage from a suspected but unknown projectile.

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The extent of the damage was unknown but all crew members were safe, it said.

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The Hormuz sea passage, one of the world’s most strategically important choke points, would normally have about 100 vessels a day either exiting or entering the Gulf. In response to the US and Israeli attacks, Iran has effectively shut the strait, attacking at least 10 ships which were seeking to traverse it in the early days of the crisis.

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Iran fired missiles and drones at targets across the Gulf including oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and a ship off the coast of the Emirates, while Israeli and the United States struck targets across the region on Wednesday.

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Here is a quick summary of that activity:

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Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said early Wednesday it destroyed five drones heading toward the kingdom’s vast Shaybah oil field in the Empty Quarter desert. It added that it intercepted and destroyed two drones in the Eastern Province.

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Kuwait said it downed eight drones over the tiny, oil-rich nation.

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Off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, a projectile hit a container ship early Wednesday morning, while United Arab Emirates officials said early Wednesday that its air defences were working to intercept incoming Iranian fire.

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Bahrain sounded sirens early Wednesday, warning of an incoming Iranian attack. The warnings came a day after an Iranian attack hit a residential building in the capital, Manama, and killed a 29-year-old woman and wounding eight people.

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Israelis were repeatedly driven into bomb shelters as the military warned Iran had launched missiles toward Israel.

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In Iraq, a drone hit a major US diplomatic facility, next to the Baghdad airport.

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Meanwhile, Israel pounded Lebanon with a new wave of attacks, setting an apartment block in central Beirut alight. Earlier strikes in southern Lebanon killed five people in the Nabatieh district and two in the Tyre district.

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The US said it had destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.

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The US has reportedly started moving parts of the US-made missile-defence system, along with other military hardware, out of South Korea for deployment in its war against Iran – a move officials are downplaying, but which has raised questions over Donald Trump’s commitment to North-east Asia.

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As the Guardian’s Justin McCurry writes:

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The move, reported this week, has triggered doubts over Donald Trump’s security commitment to South Korea – the US’s most important east Asian ally along with Japan – and warnings that the nuclear-armed North could seek to ramp up pressure on its neighbour. Why, critics are asking, did South Korea invest so much political capital in a defence system that could one day be removed?

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Read the full report here:

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General Abolfazl Shekarchi, the senior spokesperson for Iran’s armed forces, has vowed retaliation against the US and Israel, for its “shameless and brutal crimes”, Iranian news agency Defapress reports.

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Shekarchi said the US and Israel army were killing ordinary people, women and children to to their “desperation and inability to confront the armed forces”.

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I tell them to expect our crushing blows in retaliation for these barbaric actions of theirs, because we will soon retaliate for these actions and inflict very fatal blows on their bodies.

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Shekarchi called on regional countries to reveal where the enemy forces were hiding, to minimise harm to civilians.

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I ask the Muslim people of the region and the countries of the region to show us the hiding places of the American-Zionist forces so that they are not harmed and we can accurately hit those who used the people of the region as their human shields.

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An Israeli strike hit an apartment in central Beirut on Wednesday, state media reported, the second targeting the heart of the Lebanese capital since the start of the latest war with Hezbollah.

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Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said that “the enemy targeted an apartment in the Aisha Bakkar area” in central Beirut.

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Over in Senate question time, the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has confirmed embassies in Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv and the consulate in Dubai all physically closed in the last week.

n Wong said the government’s number one priority is to “keep Australians safe at home and abroad”.

n She continued:

“The dangerous and destabilising attacks by Iran put civilian lives at risk, including Australian lives.”

n More than 3,200 Australians over 23 commercial flights have returned to Australia since the US and Israel attacked Iran, setting off a regional conflict and grounding thousands of international flights.

Wong criticised Nationals senators for “winding up people and stoking fear” to panic buy fuel.

n The senator said:

“Petrol companies are telling us that fuel stock continues to arrive as expected and on time but there has been a large change in the pattern of demand and that is having an effect on the supply, particularly in regional communities. We have seen jerry cans coming off the shelves at Bunnings and lines at the pump.”

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Following on from our previous report on a drone hitting a major US diplomatic facility in Iraq – Reuters has reported on an internal State Department alert that there were no injuries and everyone was accounted for at the facility.

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The drone hit the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center, next to the Baghdad airport, impacting near a guard tower, the internal alert from the department seen by Reuters said. Individuals at the facility were ordered to “duck and cover”, it said. A separate alert said everyone was accounted for.

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The Washington Post said a total of six drones were launched toward the compound in Baghdad and that five were shot down. It also said the attack was likely carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions.

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Iran had launched missiles towards Israel, said Israel’s military on Wednesday.

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“Defence systems are operating to intercept the threat,” it said in a post to X, and urged the public to act in accordance with directives sent to mobile phones in the area.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they targeted a satellite communications centre in Haifa, along with military bases in Israel, and US targets elsewhere in the region, including Iraqi Kurdistan and the US Fifth Fleet naval base in Bahrain.

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“We will continue our sustained attacks with purpose and power, and in this war, we contemplate nothing but the enemy’s complete surrender,” the Guards said on their website Sepah News.

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The strike hit the diplomatic support centre, a logistical hub for US diplomats near Baghdad airport and Iraqi military bases, it reported. It was not clear whether there were any injuries. Five other drones were intercepted.

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The state department issued an internal alert saying a drone hit near a guard tower and that individuals at the facility were ordered to “duck and cover,” according to the Post.

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The attack was likely carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, the security official said.

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US Central Command has said in a post on X that it “eliminated” 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.

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Earlier Donald Trump said that the US had hit and “completely destroyed” 10 inactive mine-laying vessels, warning that more would follow.

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His comments came not long after he said there had been “no reports” of Iran placing mines in the strait, but warned that if Iran had placed mines in the crucial waterway, they must be moved “IMMEDIATELY” or Iran would face military consequences “at a level never seen before”.

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US officials earlier told CBS News that Iran may be preparing to deploy naval mines in the strait to further disrupt the crucial shipping lane. According to CNN, a few dozen mines have been laid in recent days.

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Iran’s police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan has warned Iranians on state TV that anyone who takes to the streets “at the enemy’s request” will be “confronted as an enemy, not a protester”.

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We will do to them what we do to enemies. We will treat them the way we treat enemies.

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All of our men have their fingers on the trigger and are ready to defend their revolution, to support their people and their homeland.

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Radan said security forces are stationed in the streets “day and night”.

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Both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have called on Iranians to take to the streets and overthrow their regime in recent weeks.

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Iran has brutally cracked down on protesters involved in a wave of anti-establishment demonstrations since late December. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said it had confirmed the killing of at least 7,000 people, including children and people not involved in the protests, during that period.

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Hello and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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Here are the main developments:

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  Iran’s police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan has warned Iranians on state TV that anyone who takes to the streets “at the enemy’s request” will be “confronted as an enemy, not a protester”. Radan said security forces are stationed in the streets “day and night”.

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  Lebanese health authorities said Israel’s raids on the southern town of Qana, in the Tyre district, on Wednesday have killed five people and wounded five others.

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  The Israeli military said it had begun an “additional wave” of strikes on targets in Tehran. It followed the IDF saying earlier that it had struck key command centres of the Iranian armed forces in Tehran and Tabriz.

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  It comes as Iran’s UN ambassador accused the US and Israel of deliberately targeting civilians – saying that almost 10,000 civilian sites have been hit in the country, including about 8,000 residential homes, and the death toll has reached more than 1,300 people. Amir Saeid Iravani said “populated residential areas” and “critical civilian infrastructure” had been hit in attacks he described as “horrific crimes”.

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  Donald Trump said the US has hit and “completely destroyed” 10 inactive mine-laying vessels, warning that more would follow. US Central Command added that it “eliminated” 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the strait of Hormuz. The updates came shortly after the US president initially said there had been “no reports” of Iran placing mines in the strait, but warned that if it had, they must be moved “IMMEDIATELY” or Iran would face military consequences “at a level never seen before”. US officials earlier told CBS News that Iran may be preparing to deploy naval mines in the strait to further disrupt the crucial shipping lane. According to CNN, a few dozen mines have been laid in recent days.

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  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the US Navy has not escorted an oil tanker through the strait of Hormuz, after the US energy secretary Chris Wright said it had happened in a swiftly deleted X post. Leavitt also said that the US military is “drawing up additional options” to keep strait open.

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  Leavitt also said that the US and Israel’s war won’t end until Iran’s “complete and unconditional surrender” and when Trump decides his objectives have been met and determines that Iran does not pose a direct threat. She told reporters that the US military is “making tremendous strides towards achieving our military objectives”, and is now moving to “dismantle Iran’s missile production infrastructure”.

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  Meanwhile, the Trump administration is reportedly considering the deployment of special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which experts say could be used to make at least 10 nuclear warheads. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has told Congress that “people are going to have to go and get it”. Here’s our story.

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  The United States reportedly asked Israel to halt strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure, marking the first time the US has reined in its ally since they went to war 11 days ago. It comes after an Israeli bombing of fuel storage facilities blanketed Tehran – a city home to some 10 million people – in toxic black smoke and acid rain over the weekend, raising urgent health warnings for ordinary Iranians.

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  Israel is set to expand its defence budget by almost 40 billion shekels (US$13bn) to fund the war in Iran, according to a finance ministry official, who wished to remain anonymous, Bloomberg reports. The defence budget will be expanded by 28bn shekels, with an additional 10 billion put aside as reserves for possible military needs, the offical said.

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  A total of seven members of the Iranian women’s football team have now been granted humanitarian visas in Australia, home affairs minister Tony Burke has confirmed. An additional two women had sought asylum before the rest of the Iranian team departed Sydney on a flight to Malaysia on Tuesday night, one player and one support member, Burke told a press conference on Wednesday morning.

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  Russia denied sharing intelligence with Iran on US military assets in the Middle East, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said. 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. “We can take them at their word. But they did say that. And yesterday morning, independently, Jared [Kushner] and I had a call with [Kremlin aide Yuri] Ushakov who reiterated the same.”

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  Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi dismissed repeated claims from the Trump administration that Iran was planning a preemptive or preventive strike against the US or its military forces as “a sheer and utter lie”. “The sole purpose of that lie is to justify Operation Epic Mistake, a misadventure engineered by Israel and paid for by ordinary Americans,” Araghchi said in a post on X – riffing on the US’s name for the military operation, Operation Epic Fury.

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  Approximately 140 US service members have been wounded since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, according to the Pentagon, eight of them severely.

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Rising oil prices and market turmoil as a result of the war in the Middle East are fuelling fears the UK’s cost of living crisis could get even tougher. Energy bills, mortgage rates and petrol prices could all surge in the fallout from the conflict.

So how much could the war tighten the screws on our personal finances? Lucy Hough speaks to the deputy editor of the Guardian’s money section, Rupert Jones.

Israel prepared to continue Iran war for ‘as long as necessary’

The Israeli military is prepared to continue its war with Iran for “as long as necessary”, a spokesperson told reporters late on Wednesday.

“We as an army are prepared to continue the campaign as long as necessary,” he said, as quoted by Reuters.

Earlier, the Isreali defence minister, Israel Katz, conveyed similar sentiments, saying that the war “will continue without any time limit”.

The operation will continue without any time limit, as long as required, until we accomplish all objectives and achieve victory in the campaign.

Israel launches further ‘large-scale’ strikes on Beirut suburbs

The Israeli military said on Wednesday night that it had begun a “large-scale wave of strikes” on Beirut’s suburbs after Hezbollah launched what the IDF said were “dozens” of rockets.

The IDF claimed the strikes targeted what it described as “Hezbollah infrastructure” in the densely populated Dahieh suburb of southern Beirut.

In the 12 days since the US and Israel launched war on Iran, Israel’s renewed bombing campaign across Lebanon and its invasion of border areas with ground troops have killed more than 570 people, according to Lebanese authorities. This includes at least 83 children, according to Unicef.

Some 750,000 have been displaced after being forced to flee the violence, sparking fears of a humanitarian catastrophe if conditions continue unabated.

Iran must be paid reparations and have guarantees against future aggression to end war, Pezeshkian says

Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president, has demanded that reparations and security guarantees be included in any agreement to end the war started by the United States and Israel.

He wrote on X:

Talking to leaders of Russia and Pakistan, I reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to peace in the region.

The only way to end this war – ignited by the Zionist regime and US – is recognising Iran’s legitimate rights, payment of reparations, and firm international guarantees against future aggression.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, has said that Donald Trump will decide when to end the war on Iran, and the US president has demanded Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” before that happens.

Shrai Popat

Donald Trump went on to say that the US has hit “28 mine ships as of this moment”. This is up from the 16 that US Central Command said it “eliminated” near the strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.

The US president also tried to assuage concerns about the whipsawing price of oil. “I would say it went up a little bit less than we thought. It’s going to come down more than anybody understands,” he told reporters in Ohio.

Trump says ‘let’s see what happens’ to Iran’s new leadership

On Iran’s new leadership, Donald Trump added:

We knocked out twice their leadership, and now they have a new group coming up. Let’s see what happens to them.

A reminder that Trump has consistently expressed strong disapproval of Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In recent days, Trump has said his appointment was a “big mistake” and suggested he wouldn’t “last long” without US approval. He has told reporters that he’s “disappointed” and “not happy” with the selection, having previously called Khamenei a “lightweight” and an “unacceptable choice” to succeed his father.

The US president has also declined to rule out the younger Khamenei as a military target (Israel, meanwhile, has vowed to target the new supreme leader).

Iran war ‘turned out to be easier than we thought’, says Trump

More from Donald Trump, who has in the last few moments been speaking on a visit to a life science and clinical research company in Ohio.

He repeated comments he’s made this week that US military operations in Iran are “a couple of weeks … few weeks of excursion”.

Asked by a reporter whether the US-Israeli conflict with Iran is a “little excursion” or a “war”, Trump said:

It’s both.

It’s an excursion that will keep us out of a war; for them it’s a war, for us it turned out to be easier than we thought.

Why alliances in the Iran-US war are not simple – video

The Iran-US-Israeli war has plunged the Middle East into chaos, but defining the system of alliances in this war is a complex question.

The Guardian’s Beirut-based reporter, Will Christou, explains who is supporting Iran, who is supporting the US and Israel, and what their support actually equates to.

An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed six US service members in the early hours of the US-Israeli war on Iran was more severe than previously revealed, with dozens suffering injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns, multiple sources have told CBS News, with at least one requiring the amputation of a limb.

More than 30 military members remained in hospital on Tuesday night with injuries from the attack on a tactical operations center at the Shuaiba port outside Kuwait City, according to CBS News’s report.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that about 140 US service members had been injured so far in the US-Israeli war on Iran.

“The vast majority of these injuries have been minor, and 108 service members have already returned to duty. Eight service members remain listed as severely injured and are receiving the highest level of medical care,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement.

Donald Trump and several members of his cabinet joined the families of the six US soldiers killed in the strike during a “dignified transfer” ritual at Dover air force base on Saturday.

Donald Trump also said earlier that he was not worried about Iran-backed attacks on US soil.

Asked outside the White House if he was worried that Iran may increase it retaliation to include strikes on US soil, Trump told reporters, “No, I’m not.”

ABC News later reported that the FBI had warned police departments in California that Iran could retaliate for US attacks by launching drones at the west coast.

“We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran,” the FBI wrote in an alert distributed at the end of February, according to ABC News.

“We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack.”

The FBI field office in Los Angeles and the White House did not immediately responded to ABC’s request for comment.

Shrai Popat

Donald Trump also evaded a question about the bombing of an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 175 people, most of them children.

A preliminary investigation found that the US is to blame for the strike, according to a report from the New York Times.

When asked whether he takes responsibility for the attack, the US president simply replied:

I don’t know about it.

Trump has insisted in recent days that Iran was to blame, despite mounting evidence that suggests US liability and despite admitting that he “doesn’t know enough” about the strike. His administration officials are withholding blame until a full report is released. Trump has also said he is “willing to live” with the investigation’s findings.

Per the NYT’s report, the Tomahawk missile strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was the consequence of a “targeting mistake” by the US military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base, which used to include the school building.

According to the officials briefed on the preliminary investigation whom the paper spoke to, officers at US Central Command (Centcom) created target coordinates for the strike “using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency”.

The officials emphasized that “there are important unanswered questions about why the outdated information had not been double checked”.

Here’s my colleague Peter Beaumont’s story on that:

Asked if oil companies should be using the strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway for shipping oil and liquefied natural gas where traffic has effectively ground to a halt amid the US-Israeli war on Iran, Donald Trump said only:

I think they should.

Iran has reportedly deployed about a dozen mines in the strait and reiterated today that any ships belonging to the United States, Israel or their allies passing through the strait could be targeted.

Trump says ‘we’re not finished yet’ in Iran

Donald Trump earlier spoke to reporters briefly outside the White House. Asked what it will take for the war in Iran to end, he said:

More of the same. And we’ll see how that all comes out.

They’ve lost their navy. They’ve lost their air force. They have no anti-aircraft apparatus at all. They have no radar. Their leaders are gone. And we could do a lot worse.

He boasted that the US has hit Iran “harder than virtually any country in history has been hit”, before adding, “we’re not finished yet”.

Earlier, the US president told Axios that the war would end “soon” since the there is “practically nothing left to target” in Iran.

The US state department said on Wednesday that Iran and Iran-aligned militas may be planning to target US-owned oil, energy infrastructure and hotels in Iraq.

In a post on X, the US embassy in Baghdad said: “Iran-aligned terrorist militias have also targeted hotels frequented by Americans throughout Iraq, including the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR).”

It urged US citizens in Iraq to “remain vigilant, maintain a low profile, and stay away from areas that could make them a target”.

“Congregating in areas associated with the United States or with groups of other US citizens could put you at risk,” it added.

The notice said that departing Iraq may be the safest option for Americans.

Romania decided on Wednesday to let the United States use air bases in the eastern European country to refuel aircraft involved in the US-Israeli war on Iran, the country’s president said.

Parliament approved the measure after it was reviewed by the Supreme Council of National Defence earlier in the day. President Nicusor Dan called it a “temporary deployment of American military equipment and forces in Romania” in a statement following the council meeting.

The move would allow refuelling of aircraft and the deployment of monitoring and satellite communications equipment, Dan said.

“This is equipment that enhances Romania’s security,” Dan said. “I would like to emphasise that this equipment is defensive and that it is not equipped with weapons per se.”

The United States would be able to use the Mihail Kogalniceanu base near Constanta and Campia Turzii in central Romania for an initial 90 days, an official source told AFP.

Why desalination plants are the Gulf’s greatest weakness

Damien Gayle

In 1983, the CIA determined that the most crucial commodity in the Gulf was its desalinated potable water.

Although the loss of a single plant could be handled, “successful attacks on several plants in the most dependent countries could generate a national crisis that could lead to panic flights from the country and civil unrest”. And the greatest threat to the region’s water supply? “Iran.”

That’s why, four decades later, the world held its breath on Saturday when Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, accused the US of “a blatant and desperate crime” by attacking a desalination plant on the island of Qeshm, in the strait of Hormuz. “The US set this precedent, not Iran,” he said.

The US denied responsibility for the attack. But the next day, on the other side of the Gulf, Bahrain announced one of its own desalination plants had been hit. The alleged culprit: “Iranian aggression.”

More here:

Iran’s armed forces threatened on Wednesday to target regional ports if its own ports were attacked during the war with Israel and the United States, a spokesman said.

“If our ports and docks are threatened, all ports and docks in the region will be our legitimate targets,” armed forces spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi said, according to state TV.

He warned that the armed forces “will carry out a heavier operation than what we have done so far” if Iranian ports were to come under attack.

“We call on the countries of the region to expel the Americans from their lands,” he added.

Patrick Wintour

UK diplomats do not believe Iran has the will or capacity to keep fighting if Donald Trump, in the near future, declares a unilateral ceasefire, stating his war objectives have been met.

The officials also do not expect from the statements emerging from the White House that the US will seek to target or capture Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, but will settle for highlighting the damage it has inflicted on Iranian state institutions and its ballistic missile programme.

Officials regard Iranian claims that they will not accept a ceasefire as bluster, pointing out that Iran accepted ceasefire at the end of the 12-day war in June last year.

Diplomats are also not expecting the Gulf states to shift their posture of refusing to go on the offensive against Iran, but instead want the conflict brought to an end as soon as possible. Damage to Gulf-Iranian relations will be long-term.

The UK is advising the Gulf states on cheaper options to shoot down incoming Iranian drones, probably the most surprising aspect of the conflict. Bahrain has sought to repel 176 drones and the United Arab Emirates more than 1,500 drones. RAF Typhoons have been helping to shoot down missiles in Qatar the UAE and Bahrain.

Overall, 55,000 British citizens have flown out of the region since the conflict started and seats are still available on flights out of Dubai into the UK, but mainly on flights that have destinations outside London.