Iran war updates: Trump vows hard strikes; Tehran says will not surrender

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• Israel and Iran have exchanged fire, with sirens sounding in northern Israel, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
• Iran said it is open to de-escalation if neighbouring countries’ airspace and territory are not used to attack it, but then later said that US President Trump killed the gesture when the US launched attacks on Iran from Gulf bases.
• Trump said strikes on Iran have significantly damaged the country’s military capabilities.
• Qatar says it was targeted by ballistic and cruise missiles launched from Iran.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israeli forces attacked the town of Nabi Chit in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley overnight, killing at least 41 people.
• Al Jazeera correspondents report that Israeli forces carried out a “violent” strike on the Haret Hreik neighbourhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
• Hezbollah says it carried out attacks targeting northern Israel and Israeli troops near the Lebanon border this evening.
• A Palestinian has been killed in southern Gaza despite a ceasefire being in place, according to the Israeli military.

The US president says he refuses to disclose the conditions for sending ground troops into Iran.

Qatar’s Ministry of Defence says the country was targeted by ballistic and cruise missiles launched from Iran on Saturday.

In a statement, the ministry said 10 ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles were fired towards Qatar.

Qatar’s armed forces said it intercepted six of the ballistic missiles and both cruise missiles, while two ballistic missiles fell in Qatar’s territorial waters and two landed in an uninhabited area without causing casualties.

The ministry said the army is capable and ready to defend the country’s sovereignty and respond to any external threat.

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defence says eight drones were intercepted and destroyed after entering the country’s airspace.

In a statement on X, the ministry’s spokesperson said the drones were shot down by Saudi air defences.

No further details were immediately provided about where the incident took place or who launched the drones.

Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman has spoken with Jordan’s prime minister and defence minister, Jaafar Hassan, with the two officials condemning what they described as Iranian attacks against countries in the region.

According to Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defence, both sides affirmed their support for measures aimed at preserving the security and stability of their countries, the ministry said.

The army says on X that “several” depots belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were hit recently.

One person was injured, and several shops were damaged, by falling missile fragments on a public road in the country’s capital, Manama, the ministry said.

“Civil Defence is securing and evacuating the affected areas,” it added in a short statement on X.

The Trump administration has bypassed congressional review to approve the sale of more than 20,000 bombs to Israel worth about $650m, according to US officials.

The State Department said Secretary of State Marco Rubio had determined that an emergency existed, allowing the administration to waive the usual congressional review process.

US officials also said Israel would buy a further $298m worth of munitions through direct commercial sales.

A UN report published in December 2024 said similar heavy munitions had likely been used by Israel in densely populated areas of Gaza during its genocidal war on the Palestinian territory.

Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi has met with a group of ambassadors from non-EU European states, as well as the US, Brazil and Turkiye.

A second meeting was held with ambassadors from the Gulf Cooperation Council states of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan.

They discussed the “utmost priority of continuing and intensifying political and diplomatic pressures to stop the war” and contain its repercussions, Oman’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Albusaidi stressed that the current phase “calls for broad regional and international action” as ending the war is “a supreme national and pan-Arab interest for all.”

It’s been a week since the United States and Israel launched a war on Iran.

The conflict soon spread to neighbouring countries, which have been on the receiving end of hundreds of retaliatory Iranian missiles and drones.

Targets in countries beyond the region have also been hit, with some warning that such attacks could open new fronts. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has now apologised to Gulf states, saying Tehran will limit its attacks on them in the future.

But with no sign of Israel and the US ending the war, how likely are its effects to spread?

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Trump said on Saturday that ⁠the UK is giving serious ⁠thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the ‌Middle East, but that the US does not need them for its war on Iran.

“That’s ⁠OK, Prime ⁠Minister Starmer, we don’t need them ⁠any longer — But ⁠we will ⁠remember,” he said on Truth Social. “We don’t need ‌people that join Wars ‌after ‌we’ve already won!”

Spain has evacuated the remaining staff from its embassy in Tehran, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said.

In a post on X, Albares said the ambassador and essential staff who had remained in the Iranian capital had crossed the border into Azerbaijan and were now safe.

The evacuation comes as Tehran was again hit by Israeli and US air strikes today.

‌Ukrainian President ⁠Volodymyr Zelenskyy ⁠says he has spoken to ⁠Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ⁠about the situation in Iran and the Middle East, and restated ‌Kyiv’s offer to help deal with Iranian drones.

“Ukraine has been fighting against [Iranian-designed] ‘Shaheds’ for years, and ⁠everyone acknowledges that ⁠no other country in the world has such experience”, ⁠Zelenskyy said on Telegram ⁠of his conversation.

“We ⁠are ready to help, and expect that our ‌people will also receive the necessary support.”

The US president has claimed that “it was Iran” that bombed the elementary school in Minab, in which at least 165 people were killed.

A reporter at the Dover Air Force Base on Saturday had asked Trump if the US had bombed the school.

Trump also said that there was no indication that Russia is helping Tehran, and that he doesn’t want the Kurds “to go in” to Iran.

He added that the US wants “to pick a president in Iran that is not going to lead that country into war”.

Lebanon’s social affairs minister, Haneen Sayed, has announced that approximately 454,000 Lebanese people have registered as displaced.

She urged those who have not yet registered to do so, and said the Sports City Stadium in Beirut would be opened as a shelter for families in the municipality. There are also multiple shelters in Akkar.

Sayed added that “hot meals and food rations are being distributed in various Lebanese regions in cooperation with organisations and associations, with numbers increasing gradually to ensure no person is left without food.”