Iran, US-Israel War Highlights | 'Severe consequences’ if Iran keeps blocking Hormuz Strait, warns Rubio

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Trump says Iran agrees to allow 20 more ships of oil through Strait of Hormuz: Report

President Donald Trump said Sunday night that Iran had agreed to release 20 more cargo ships of oil through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday, in what the president insisted was a “tribute” to the United States and a “sign of respect.”

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington from a weekend spent in Florida, Trump cast Iran’s decision to allow free passage for the ships as a sign that negotiations were under way toward ending the military conflict in the region, in what he said were direct and indirect talks. (NYT)

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | 'It's a new group': Trump claims US has caused regime change in Iran

US President Donald Trump claimed Monday that Iran has undergone regime change since Operation Epic Fury launched on February 28. While speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said that he is dealing with "a new group of people" who are "very reasonable."

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Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Indian worker killed in Iranian attack on Kuwait power, desalination plant

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Trump says Iran deal may be reached 'soon'

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the US-Israel war against Iran has achieved regime change and a deal could be reached "soon" with Tehran. (AFP)

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Trump says could take Iran's Kharg Island 'very easily'

US President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday that he could take Iran's Kharg Island "very easily." When asked about the state of Iranian defense on the island Trump said "I don't think they have any defense. We could take it very easily." (AFP)

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Israel military says responding to missiles launched from Iran

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Israel army says striking Iranian military infrastructure across Tehran

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Israel strikes Tehran as Trump says Iran deal may be reached 'soon' (AFP)

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Iran energy ministry says power grid 'stable' after attacks

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | IRGC confirms death of Navy commander Alireza Tangsiri

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Israel media reports impact on oil refinery in Haifa (AFP)

Israeli television channels reported an impact at an oil refinery in the northern city of Haifa on Monday, shortly after the military said it had detected new incoming missiles from Iran.

Television network Channel 12 showed thick black smoke billowing into the sky from the site.

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war

Spain ​has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its ⁠previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, ⁠Spanish newspaper El Pais reported ‌on Monday, ​citing military sources.

The closure of its airspace, which forces military planes to bypass NATO member Spain en route to their targets ​in the ⁠Middle East, does not include emergency situations, El Pais added. (Reuters)

Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Baghaei says no direct talks with US took place, only messages via intermediaries

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, said Tehran has “not had any direct talks with the US so far, only messages via intermediaries”.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Iran views US demands for talks as 'excessive', foreign ministry

 Iran received messages via intermediaries indicating the ⁠United States' willingness ⁠to negotiate, but ‌deemed ​U.S. proposals to be "unrealistic, illogical and excessive", foreign ministry ​Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei ⁠said on Monday.

Baghaei's press conference took place ⁠a ‌day after the foreign ministers of ‌Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi ⁠Arabia and Turkey met in Islamabad ‌to ‌hold initial discussions ‌primarily focused on ‌proposals to reopen the Strait of Hormuz ⁠to ⁠shipping.

"Our position is clear. We are under military aggression. Therefore, all our efforts ​and strength ​are focused ​on defending ourselves," Baghaei ​said.

(Reuters)

Iran says not seeking nuclear weapons but non-proliferation treaty under review, reports AFP

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Hezbollah says it targeted Haifa’s naval base, reports Al Jazeera

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| USA is in serious discussions with a new, and more reasonable, regime to end our military operations in Iran: Trump

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Will obliterate their oil wells & electric plants if deal not reached: Trump on Iran

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| Israel renews strikes on Beirut suburbs, kills Lebanese soldier

 Israel renewed its bombardment of Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday while continuing air strikes on Lebanon's south, one of which targeted an army checkpoint and killed a soldier.

Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East conflict when Tehran-backed armed group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2 in revenge for the killing of Iran's supreme leader, the opening salvo in the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| ‘Hand that disrupts peace will be cut off’: Lebanese president

Lebanon’s National News Agency reported Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun warning  against any attempts to destabilise the country, saying authorities will act decisivel.

Al Jazeera quoted Aoun saying ,"the hand that reaches out to disrupt civil peace will be cut off”, stressing that security forces are taking firm action, including arrests and weapons seizures.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Missile hits fuel tanker at Israel's Oil Refineries

​An industrial building and a fuel tanker at Israel's Oil Refineries in the northern city of ⁠Haifa was hit by debris from an ⁠intercepted missile, Israel's Fire and Rescue ‌Service said ​on Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the missile was fired from Iran or Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, who ​were both firing ⁠at the same time.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| Trump again warns Iran to open Strait of Hormuz

 President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was in talks with a "more reasonable ⁠regime" to end the war in Iran ⁠but repeated his warning to Tehran ‌to open the ​Strait of Hormuz or risk U.S attacks on its oil wells and power plants.

"Great progress has been made but, if for any ​reason a ⁠deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately 'Open for Business,' we ⁠will conclude our ‌lovely 'stay' in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their ‌Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island," ⁠Trump wrote in a social media post.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| Israeli army says struck Tehran university run by Iran Guards

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| Rubio says US hopeful after private talks with Iran officials

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday voiced hope for working with elements within Iran's government, saying the United States privately had received positive messages.

Rubio said there were internal "fractures" inside the Islamic republic and that the United States hoped that figures with "power to deliver" take charge.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| Egypt's Sisi asks Trump to 'help us stop the war', reports AFP

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday urged his US counterpart Donald Trump to help end the Middle East war, now in its second month.

"I say to President Trump: no one will be able to stop the war in our region, in the Gulf... Please, help us to stop the war, you are capable of it," Sisi said in joint remarks to the press in Cairo alongside Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| Oil market well supplied, control of Hormuz to shift over time, Bessent says

 U.S. Treasury ⁠Secretary Scott Bessent ‌said ​on Monday that the global oil market ​is well supplied, ⁠with more boats traveling through the Strait ⁠of Hormuz.

"Over ‌time, the U.S. is ‌going to ⁠retake control of the Straits and ‌there ‌will be freedom ‌of navigation, ‌whether it is through U.S. escorts or ⁠a ⁠multinational escort," Bessent said in an interview with Fox News Channel's "Fox & ​Friends."

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates| Iran war is dimming outlook for many economies, IMF says

The war in the Middle East has caused serious disruption ⁠to the economies of frontline countries, and is ‌dimming the outlook for ​many economies that had just started to recover from previous crises, the International Monetary Fund warned on Monday.

In a blog published by the global lender's top economists, the IMF said the war launched by ​U.S. and Israeli strikes against ⁠Iran on February 28 was causing a global, but asymmetric shock and leading to tighter financial conditions.

Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz and damage to regional infrastructure had ⁠caused the ‌largest disruption to the global oil market in history, according to the International Energy Agency. Much would depend ‌on how long the war lasts, how far it spreads and how much ⁠damage it inflicts on infrastructure and supply chains.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Chinese container ships pass through Strait of Hormuz at second attempt, data shows

Two Chinese container ships sailed through the Strait ⁠of Hormuz on Monday on their second attempt to leave the Gulf after turning back on Friday, ship-tracking ⁠data showed.

The critical waterway has effectively been shut since the U.S.-Israeli war with ‌Iran began on February 28.

The vessels ​sailed in close formation out of the strait and into open waters, data on the MarineTraffic platform showed.

"Both vessels successfully crossed on a second attempt today, marking the first container vessels to leave the Persian Gulf since the start of the conflict, excluding Iranian flag vessels," said Rebecca Gerdes, data analyst with Kpler, ​which owns MarineTraffic.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Lebanese soldier killed, five injured after Israeli attack on army checkpoint

A Lebanese ⁠soldier was ⁠killed ‌on Monday ​and five others ​were ⁠wounded after an ⁠Israeli ‌attack on an ‌army ⁠checkpoint in southern ‌Lebanon, ‌the ‌Lebanese ‌army said

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Turkey says fourth missile fired from Iran has been intercepted, reports AFP

Turkey's Defence Ministry said Monday that NATO forces had intercepted a new missile fired from Iran -- the fourth since the start of the Middle East war.

None of the four projectiles managed to hit Turkish soil, according to the authorities.

"A ballistic munition, which has been determined to have been fired from Iran and to have entered Turkish airspace, was neutralised by NATO air and missile defence forces deployed in the eastern Mediterranean," said a ministry statement.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | 'Get used to new regional order' says head of Iran Guards foreign wing

The commander of the foreign operations branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards issued a rare message on Monday hailing Iranian proxy groups for helping create a "new regional order", reports AFP.

Esmail Qaani became head of the Guards' Quds Force after the killing of Qassem Soleimani in a US strike in Iraq in 2020.

His message, just the second attributed to him since the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic began on February 28, was posted on X under the handle @general_Qaani, although the social media giant then rapidly suspended the account with a note that "X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules."

The message was also widely published by Iranian news agencies and state television.

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Severe consequences if Iran keeps blocking Hormuz Strait, warns Rubio, Al Jazeera reports

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Israel military issues evacuation warning to 6 villages in Lebanon's western Bekaa

The Israeli military issued ⁠evacuation warnings ⁠to residents ‌of ​six villages in Lebanon's western Bekaa region, ​urging ⁠civilians to leave ahead of possible military ⁠operations, ‌in the first such ‌warning for those ⁠areas.

-Reuters

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Iran has agreed to some US points in private talks: White House

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Trump wants to see a deal before April 6 deadline: White House

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Israel passes law making death penalty default sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Won't put timeline on ending Iran war: Israeli PM Netanyahu

Iran, US-Israel War Live Updates | Willing to end US military campaign against Iran even if Strait of Hormuz remains closed: Trump