Trump says ‘a whole civilisation will die tonight’ if Iran does not make a deal – Middle East crisis live

The US has hit Kharg Island again ahead of Donald Trump’s deadline, an AP source has reported.

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Earlier Iran’s Mehr news agency said US-Israeli strikes had hit the key Iranian oil export terminal.

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The official said the US hit military targets on the island. The strikes came hours ahead of a deadline president Trump has set for Iran to capitulate to his demands or face a major attack.

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He said Tuesday morning that “’whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran did not make a deal. Trump has threatened to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on the island.

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US president Donald Trump once again warned Iran to make a deal on Tuesday, saying a “whole civilization will die tonight” if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict.

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Writing on Truth Social, he said:

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A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?

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We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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  The deadline that Donald Trump set for reopening the strait of Hormuz fast approaches. The US president has again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran did not meet his deadline of Tuesday 8pm ET (midnight Tuesday GMT) and said he was “not at all” concerned about that doing so could possibly constitute committing a war crime. “You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon,” he said.

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  As the deadline draws nearer, the US and Iran are engaging in last-ditch talks, according to officials in Pakistan’s Islamabad, which is acting as an intermediary for the indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran. Earlier, Iran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wanted a permanent end to the conflict.

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  Three gunmen engaged in a shootout with Turkish police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. While their motive is still under investigation – Istanbul’s governor told reporters that there have been no Israeli diplomatic staff at the consulate in Istanbul for two and a half years – Mustafa Ciftci, the Turkish minister of the interior, posted on X that one of the attackers had ties to “an organisation that exploits religion”. One attacker was killed and the other two were injured. Two policemen were also injured.

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  The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Israeli forces struck a key petrochemical compound in Shiraz in southern Iran. The Guardian was not able to independently verify this claim. According to the IDF, this facility was one of the last remaining facilities that produced critical chemical components for explosives and materials for ballistic missiles.

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  The Israeli military also on Tuesday warned the people of Iran via X on Tuesday morning not to use trains and be near railway lines “from this moment until 21:00 Iran time”, saying that doing so “endangers your life”.

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  Israel and the US struck 17 civilian targets on Tuesday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent said, in attacks that the humanitarian NGO have decried as war crimes.

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  Nearly 3,600 people have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran since attacks began, including at least 1,665 civilians, the Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA) said. Of those numbers, at least 248 of those killed were children. At least 49 civilians were killed and 58 others were injured on Monday, according to HRANA, which recorded 573 attacks across 215 incidents in 20 provinces over that 24-hour period – the highest rate of attacks seen in the last ten days.

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  In Lebanon, at least eight people were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes on the southern region, according to the state-run National News Agency. Although the Guardian could not independently verify these numbers, the Israeli military issued an alert on Monday warning residents of a number of villages in the area that the IDF planned to take strong action here.

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With Donald Trump’s deadline fast approaching, the two sides are in last-ditch talks, according to officials in Pakistan’s Islamabad, which is acting as an intermediary for the indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran.

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The fact that talks are still going on is a “big thing”, according to an official briefed on the dialogue, adding that “they have to find a way”.

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An Iranian official said that “more hopes are emerging”.

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The Iranian ambassador in Islamabad, Reza Amiri Moghadam, said in a post on X: “Pakistan positive and productive endeavours in Good Will and Good Office to stop the war is approaching a critical, sensitive stage … Stay Tuned for more”

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Pakistan has offered to host talks between Iran and the United States, which could follow any ceasefire agreement.

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Pakistani, Egyptian and Turkish diplomats are working to bridge the large gap between the demands of Tehran and Washington.

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The Egyptian and Pakistani foreign ministers spoke on Tuesday. “Both leaders underscored the need for de-escalation and dialogue,” said Pakistan’s foreign ministry. The Egyptian foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, also spoke with Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff.

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Trump, who set a deadline of Tuesday night in Washington for an agreement, said on Monday that Iran’s latest proposal, a 10-point plan, had shown some progress, but it was “not good enough” for him.

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Tehran wants an end to the war, not just a ceasefire, so it does not reignite in a few months. One idea being floated is for the US Congress to ratify any agreement, so that it will not be so easy to restart the bombing of Iran.

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The U.S. news website Axios reported that Trump’s negotiating team, vice president JD Vance, Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner, think that he should try for a deal. However, it added that Israel, and the leaders of Saudi Arabia and UAE, are urging the U.S. leader against accepting a ceasefire. It also quoted a US official saying: “The president is the most bloodthirsty, like a mad dog”.

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Authorities have identified the three attackers who armed themselves with rifles and pistols and engaged police in a firefight near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday.

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Mustafa Ciftci, the Turkish minister of the interior, posted on X that one of the attackers had ties to “an organisation that exploits religion”. Two of the attackers were brothers, one of whom has a criminal record involving drug charges.

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It’s still unclear if the Israeli consulate was the attackers’ target.

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Details are still coming in about the shooting that took place today near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.

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Davut Gul, governor of Istanbul, told reporters at the scene that three individuals were armed with rifles and pistols before engaging police in a firefight, Reuters reports.

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Initial reports had three people killed at the scene, but according to Gul, one attacker was killed and two others were wounded. Two police officers were also wounded, Gul said.

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It’s still unclear what the attackers were seeking to achieve. According to Reuters, Gul said that there have been no Israeli diplomatic staff at the consulate in Istanbul for two and a half years.

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Three people were killed in a shooting near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, Reuters report.

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More details to come.

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Israeli Defence Forces said on Tuesday that Israeli forces struck a key petrochemical compound in Shiraz in southern Iran. The Guardian was not able to independently verify this claim.

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According to the IDF, this facility was one of the last remaining facilities that produced critical chemical components for explosives and materials for ballistic missiles.

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The IDF said it also struck a large ballistic missile array site in northwestern Iran. The Guardian also was not able to independently verify this claim.

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Here’s a recap of the latest news from the US-Israel war on Iran to bring you up to speed. It’s 9.30am in Tehran, 9am in Tel Aviv and Beirut and 2am in Washington DC.

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  Donald Trump said he was “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran did not meet his deadline of Tuesday 8pm ET (midnight Tuesday GMT) to reopen the strait of Hormuz. “You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon,” he said.

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  Iran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wanted a permanent end to the conflict.

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  The Israeli military warned the people of Iran via X on Tuesday morning not to use trains and be near railway lines “from this moment until 21:00 Iran time”, saying that doing so “endangers your life”.

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  The UN security council is expected to vote on Tuesday on a resolution to protect commercial shipping in the strait of Hormuz but in significantly watered-down form after veto-wielding China opposed authorising force, Reuters cited diplomats as saying.

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  The Israeli military said early on Tuesday it had completed an “air strike wave” aimed at damaging Iranian regime infrastructure in Tehran and other areas across Iran. It said soon after that missiles were launched at Israel from Iran and defensive systems operated to incept them.

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  Oil prices rose on Tuesday while equities were mixed as investors assessed Trump’s latest deadline over the Hormuz strait. The head of the IMF said the war would lead to “higher inflation and slower global growth”

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  The World Health Organisation suspended medical evacuations from Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah crossing after a contract worker for WHO was killed in Gaza on Monday.

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  An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people outside a school housing displaced Palestinians in central Gaza, health officials said. Before the strikes some Palestinians had clashed with members of an Israeli-backed militia who they said attacked the school, Reuters cited medics and residents as saying.

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  Israel said it struck Iran’s largest petrochemical complex on Monday. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the facility had been “destroyed” and his country was “systematically eliminating the Revolutionary Guards’ money machine”.

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  The Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence chief, Maj Gen Majid Khademi, was killed in US-Israeli strikes at dawn on Monday, the Guards said.

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  Saudi Arabia intercepted seven ballistic missiles launched towards its eastern region and debris fell in the vicinity of energy facilities, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.

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  Two blasts were reportedly heard near the Erbil airport – which hosts advisers from the US-led anti-jihadist coalition – in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region.

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The Israeli military has just warned the people of Iran not to use trains, saying that doing so “endangers your life”.

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The military’s Farsi-language channel on X issued what it called (translated here) an “urgent warning to users and train passengers in the country of Iran”:

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Dear Citizens, for the sake of your security, we kindly request that from this moment until 21:00 Iran time, you refrain from using and travelling by train throughout Iran.

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Your presence on trains and near railway lines endangers your life.

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The King Fahd Causeway, a key bridge linking Saudi Arabia to the island kingdom of Bahrain, closed early on Tuesday over threats from Iranian attacks.

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The King Fahd Causeway Authority made the announcement in a post on X.

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It said vehicle movements had been “suspended as a precautionary measure” over Iranian attacks targeting Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.

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The 25km (15.5 mile) bridge is the only connection by road for Bahrain – home to the US navy’s 5th Fleet – to the Arabian Peninsula, the Associated Press reports.

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Hello and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran and its consequences for the region, the world and the global economy.

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Donald Trump said he was “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran does not meet his Tuesday 8pm ET deadline to reopen the strait of Hormuz.

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“I’m not worried about it,” the US president said. “You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon.”

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Speaking at the White House, Trump refused to say whether any civilian targets would be off-limits. Iran on Monday rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wanted a permanent end to the conflict.

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“We only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we won’t be attacked again,” Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, the head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, told the Associated Press.

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At a news conference, Trump said all of Iran could be “taken out” in one night “and that night might be tomorrow night”, referring to Tuesday. Without an agreement with Tehran, he said, “every bridge in Iran will be decimated” by midnight ET (0400 GMT) on Wednesday and “every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again”.

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Israel and the US carried out a wave of attacks on Iran on Monday, killing more than 25 people. Iran responded with missile fire on Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbours.

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  The UN security council is expected to vote on Tuesday on a resolution to protect commercial shipping in the strait of Hormuz but in significantly watered-down form after veto-wielding China opposed authorising force, Reuters is reporting, citing diplomats.

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  The Israeli military said early on Tuesday it had completed an “air strike wave” aimed at damaging Iranian regime infrastructure in Tehran and additional areas across Iran. It said soon after that missiles were launched at Israel from Iran and defensive systems were operating to incept them.

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  Israel’s military also said it carried out strikes on three airports in Tehran, targeting several Iranian planes and helicopters.

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  The World Health Organisation suspended medical evacuations from Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah crossing after a contract worker for WHO was killed in Gaza on Monday. Separately, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people outside a school housing displaced Palestinians in central Gaza, health officials said. Before the strikes some Palestinians had clashed with members of an Israeli-backed militia who they said attacked the school, Reuters cited medics and residents as saying.

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  Oil prices extended their rises on Tuesday amid Trump’s heightened rhetoric against Iran. The head of the IMF, meanwhile, said the war would lead to “higher inflation and slower global growth”.

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  The head of International Committee of the Red Cross said that “deliberate threats … against essential civilian infrastructure and nuclear facilities must not become the new norm in warfare”. Mirjana Spoljaric said, without singling out any country or leader: “Any war fought without limits is incompatible with the law.”

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  Israel said it struck Iran’s largest petrochemical complex on Monday. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the facility had been “destroyed” and his country was “systematically eliminating the Revolutionary Guards’ money machine”.

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  The intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Maj Gen Majid Khademi, was killed in US-Israeli strikes at dawn on Monday, the Guards said.

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  Saudi Arabia intercepted seven ballistic missiles launched towards its eastern region and debris fell in the vicinity of energy facilities, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.

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  Two blasts were reportedly heard near the Erbil airport – which hosts advisers from the US-led anti-jihadist coalition – in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, an Agence France-Presse journalist said.

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US strikes Kharg Island ahead of Trump deadline – AP

The US has hit Kharg Island again ahead of Donald Trump’s deadline, an AP source has reported.

Earlier Iran’s Mehr news agency said US-Israeli strikes had hit the key Iranian oil export terminal.

The official said the US hit military targets on the island. The strikes came hours ahead of a deadline president Trump has set for Iran to capitulate to his demands or face a major attack.

He said Tuesday morning that “’whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran did not make a deal. Trump has threatened to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on the island.

US-Israeli strikes have hit the key Iranian oil export terminal of Kharg island, media reported Tuesday.

“The American-Zionist enemy has carried out several attacks on Kharg island, and several explosions have been heard there,” Iran’s Mehr news agency reported.

According to an X post by journalist Barak Ravid of the news site Axios, citing a US official, the US carried out “strikes on military targets” on the island located off Iran’s western coast.

Trump says ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ if Iran does not make a deal

US president Donald Trump once again warned Iran to make a deal on Tuesday, saying a “whole civilization will die tonight” if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict.

Writing on Truth Social, he said:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?

We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

Iranian officials reported damage to at least two bridges, railway infrastructure and a key highway on Tuesday as part of a wave of deadly US-Israeli airstrikes on infrastructure targets.

A bridge near the holy city of Qom and another carrying a railway line in the central city of Kashan were struck, according to regional officials quoted by state media.

Two people were killed and three were injured in Kashan, senior regional security official Akbar Salehi said, according to Iran’s IRNA news agency.

A key highway in northern Iran connecting the main northern city of Tabriz with Tehran via Zanjan was also closed after a hit around 90 kilometres outside of Tabriz, an official told IRNA.

A Telegram channel of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the strike hit an overpass bridge.

The Mizan news agency also reported a strike on railway tracks in Karaj, outside Tehran, with images showing Red Crescent rescuers carrying an injured man on a stretcher.

Today so far

• The deadline that Donald Trump set for reopening the strait of Hormuz fast approaches. The US president has again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran did not meet his deadline of Tuesday 8pm ET (midnight Tuesday GMT) and said he was “not at all” concerned about that doing so could possibly constitute committing a war crime. “You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon,” he said.

• As the deadline draws nearer, the US and Iran are engaging in last-ditch talks, according to officials in Pakistan’s Islamabad, which is acting as an intermediary for the indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran. Earlier, Iran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wanted a permanent end to the conflict.

• Three gunmen engaged in a shootout with Turkish police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. While their motive is still under investigation – Istanbul’s governor told reporters that there have been no Israeli diplomatic staff at the consulate in Istanbul for two and a half years – Mustafa Ciftci, the Turkish minister of the interior, posted on X that one of the attackers had ties to “an organisation that exploits religion”. One attacker was killed and the other two were injured. Two policemen were also injured.

• The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Israeli forces struck a key petrochemical compound in Shiraz in southern Iran. The Guardian was not able to independently verify this claim. According to the IDF, this facility was one of the last remaining facilities that produced critical chemical components for explosives and materials for ballistic missiles.

• The Israeli military also on Tuesday warned the people of Iran via X on Tuesday morning not to use trains and be near railway lines “from this moment until 21:00 Iran time”, saying that doing so “endangers your life”.

• Israel and the US struck 17 civilian targets on Tuesday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent said, in attacks that the humanitarian NGO have decried as war crimes.

• Nearly 3,600 people have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran since attacks began, including at least 1,665 civilians, the Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA) said. Of those numbers, at least 248 of those killed were children. At least 49 civilians were killed and 58 others were injured on Monday, according to HRANA, which recorded 573 attacks across 215 incidents in 20 provinces over that 24-hour period – the highest rate of attacks seen in the last ten days.

• In Lebanon, at least eight people were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes on the southern region, according to the state-run National News Agency. Although the Guardian could not independently verify these numbers, the Israeli military issued an alert on Monday warning residents of a number of villages in the area that the IDF planned to take strong action here.

US and Iran are engaging in last-ditch negotiations ahead of Trump’s deadline

Saeed Shah

With Donald Trump’s deadline fast approaching, the two sides are in last-ditch talks, according to officials in Pakistan’s Islamabad, which is acting as an intermediary for the indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran.

The fact that talks are still going on is a “big thing”, according to an official briefed on the dialogue, adding that “they have to find a way”.

An Iranian official said that “more hopes are emerging”.

The Iranian ambassador in Islamabad, Reza Amiri Moghadam, said in a post on X: “Pakistan positive and productive endeavours in Good Will and Good Office to stop the war is approaching a critical, sensitive stage … Stay Tuned for more”

Pakistan has offered to host talks between Iran and the United States, which could follow any ceasefire agreement.

Pakistani, Egyptian and Turkish diplomats are working to bridge the large gap between the demands of Tehran and Washington.

The Egyptian and Pakistani foreign ministers spoke on Tuesday. “Both leaders underscored the need for de-escalation and dialogue,” said Pakistan’s foreign ministry. The Egyptian foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, also spoke with Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff.

Trump, who set a deadline of Tuesday night in Washington for an agreement, said on Monday that Iran’s latest proposal, a 10-point plan, had shown some progress, but it was “not good enough” for him.

Tehran wants an end to the war, not just a ceasefire, so it does not reignite in a few months. One idea being floated is for the US Congress to ratify any agreement, so that it will not be so easy to restart the bombing of Iran.

The U.S. news website Axios reported that Trump’s negotiating team, vice president JD Vance, Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner, think that he should try for a deal. However, it added that Israel, and the leaders of Saudi Arabia and UAE, are urging the U.S. leader against accepting a ceasefire. It also quoted a US official saying: “The president is the most bloodthirsty, like a mad dog”.

An unknown projectile struck a container vessel south of Iran’s Kish Island, the UK Office of Maritime Trade Operations said on Tuesday.

The crew is safe and no environmental impact has been reported. The incident remains under investigation – it’s still unclear who launched the projectile and whether the container vessel was the intended target.

Turkish minister says one attacker in shooting near Israeli consulate had ties to ‘an organisation that exploits religion’

Authorities have identified the three attackers who armed themselves with rifles and pistols and engaged police in a firefight near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Mustafa Ciftci, the Turkish minister of the interior, posted on X that one of the attackers had ties to “an organisation that exploits religion”. Two of the attackers were brothers, one of whom has a criminal record involving drug charges.

It’s still unclear if the Israeli consulate was the attackers’ target.

One killed, two wounded in gunfight with police near Israeli consulate in Istanbul

Details are still coming in about the shooting that took place today near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.

Davut Gul, governor of Istanbul, told reporters at the scene that three individuals were armed with rifles and pistols before engaging police in a firefight, Reuters reports.

Initial reports had three people killed at the scene, but according to Gul, one attacker was killed and two others were wounded. Two police officers were also wounded, Gul said.

It’s still unclear what the attackers were seeking to achieve. According to Reuters, Gul said that there have been no Israeli diplomatic staff at the consulate in Istanbul for two and a half years.

Here are some images coming out of the Middle East today:

Report: Three killed in clash near Israeli embassy in Turkey

Three people were killed in a shooting near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, Reuters report.

More details to come.

Israel and the US struck 17 civilian targets on Tuesday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent said, in attacks that the humanitarian NGO have decried as war crimes.

In a statement posted on X, the Iranian Red Crescent said that there is no justification for attacking defenceless civilians and to do so was a war crime.

Donald Trump has said that he was “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran does not meet his Tuesday 8pm ET deadline to reopen the strait of Hormuz.

A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Associated Press on Monday that international law bars the attacking of such infrastructure. “Even if specific civilian infrastructure were to qualify as a military objective,” Stephane Dujarric said, an attack would still be prohibited if it risks “excessive incidental civilian harm.”

Emergency services are responding to the site of a reported missile attack in central Israel. Footage from Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom showed an overturn car near a toppled construction frame and disturbed earth.

The damage was caused by cluster submunitions from an Iranian ballistic missile, the Times of Israel reports. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

At least eight people were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon, according to the state-run National News Agency.

Three were killed in Maarakeh, one in Zebdine, one in Deir al-Zahrani and three in Tayr Debba, the news agency said. Dozens more were wounded, including nine in Qatrani.

Although the Guardian could not independently verify these numbers, the Israeli Defense Forces had issued an alert on Monday warning residents of a number of villages in the area that the IDF planned to take strong action here.

IDF says it struck key petrochemical compound in Iran

Israeli Defence Forces said on Tuesday that Israeli forces struck a key petrochemical compound in Shiraz in southern Iran. The Guardian was not able to independently verify this claim.

According to the IDF, this facility was one of the last remaining facilities that produced critical chemical components for explosives and materials for ballistic missiles.

The IDF said it also struck a large ballistic missile array site in northwestern Iran. The Guardian also was not able to independently verify this claim.

Nearly 3,600 people have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran since attacks began, including at least 1,665 civilians, the Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA) said.

Of those numbers, at least 248 of those killed were children, the US-based NGO said.

At least 49 civilians were killed and 58 others were injured on Monday, according to HRANA, which recorded 573 attacks across 215 incidents in 20 provinces over that 24-hour period – the highest rate of attacks seen in the last ten days.

Saudi Arabia’s air defences intercepted and destroyed at least 18 drones over the past few hours, the Saudi ministry of defence said on X.

Earlier, Saudi air defences intercepted and destroyed seven ballistic missiles targeting the eastern region of the country, with debris falling in the area of some energy facilities, the defence ministry said. Crews are still assessing damages.

It is unclear who is responsible for either the drones or the missiles.

Interim summary

Here’s a recap of the latest news from the US-Israel war on Iran to bring you up to speed. It’s 9.30am in Tehran, 9am in Tel Aviv and Beirut and 2am in Washington DC.

• Donald Trump said he was “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran did not meet his deadline of Tuesday 8pm ET (midnight Tuesday GMT) to reopen the strait of Hormuz. “You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon,” he said.

• Iran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wanted a permanent end to the conflict.

• The Israeli military warned the people of Iran via X on Tuesday morning not to use trains and be near railway lines “from this moment until 21:00 Iran time”, saying that doing so “endangers your life”.

• The UN security council is expected to vote on Tuesday on a resolution to protect commercial shipping in the strait of Hormuz but in significantly watered-down form after veto-wielding China opposed authorising force, Reuters cited diplomats as saying.

• The Israeli military said early on Tuesday it had completed an “air strike wave” aimed at damaging Iranian regime infrastructure in Tehran and other areas across Iran. It said soon after that missiles were launched at Israel from Iran and defensive systems operated to incept them.

• Oil prices rose on Tuesday while equities were mixed as investors assessed Trump’s latest deadline over the Hormuz strait. The head of the IMF said the war would lead to “higher inflation and slower global growth”

• The World Health Organisation suspended medical evacuations from Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah crossing after a contract worker for WHO was killed in Gaza on Monday.

• An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people outside a school housing displaced Palestinians in central Gaza, health officials said. Before the strikes some Palestinians had clashed with members of an Israeli-backed militia who they said attacked the school, Reuters cited medics and residents as saying.

• Israel said it struck Iran’s largest petrochemical complex on Monday. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the facility had been “destroyed” and his country was “systematically eliminating the Revolutionary Guards’ money machine”.

• The Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence chief, Maj Gen Majid Khademi, was killed in US-Israeli strikes at dawn on Monday, the Guards said.

• Saudi Arabia intercepted seven ballistic missiles launched towards its eastern region and debris fell in the vicinity of energy facilities, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.

• Two blasts were reportedly heard near the Erbil airport – which hosts advisers from the US-led anti-jihadist coalition – in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region.