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U.S. President Donald Trump extended his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz connected Monday, saying the U.S. volition clasp disconnected striking Iranian powerfulness plants for 5 much days.
Trump said U.S. envoys person been holding talks with a “respected” Iranian leader, and Iran wants “to marque a deal.” Iranian officials denied immoderate specified negotiations, and declared that the American person had backed down “following Iran’s steadfast warning.”
Relief ripped done fiscal markets Monday arsenic lipid prices eased pursuing terrible losses anterior to Trump’s announcement. Financial markets person had vicious swings, some up and down, since the warfare began due to the fact that of uncertainty astir however agelong it whitethorn last.
Trump besides said the U.S. would question to retrieve Iran’s enriched uranium and extremity its atomic programme arsenic portion of a deal, telling reporters: “We privation to spot nary atomic bomb, nary atomic weapon. Not adjacent adjacent to it.”
The decease toll has risen to much than 1,500 radical successful Iran, much than 1,000 successful Lebanon, 15 successful Israel and 13 U.S. subject members, arsenic good arsenic a fig of civilians connected onshore and oversea successful the Gulf region. Millions of radical successful Lebanon and Iran person been displaced.
Here is the latest:
Iran warfare commander-in-chief goes Graceland
The president, who has often compared himself to Elvis Presley, said during an quality successful Tennessee connected Monday that he’d beryllium visiting the location of the King of Rock and Roll. “I emotion Elvis,” helium declared.
Trump’s broadside travel to a apical tourer attraction presents a stark opposition to the home and planetary issues Trump spoke astir astatine the the opening of his remarks successful Memphis.
Although Trump noted that helium had ordered a “temporary” halt to planned strikes connected Iranian powerfulness plants, American forces are inactive embroiled successful the sprawling determination conflict, successful which astatine slightest 13 U.S. work members person been killed.
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Israeli person says attacks connected Iran and Lebanon won't stop
Netanyahu says Israel volition proceed to onslaught Iran and Lebanon arsenic the U.S. considers a ceasefire.
Netanyahu says helium spoke to Trump, who told him “there is simply a chance” to leverage battlefield gains into an statement that realizes the war's objectives.
“At the aforesaid time, we proceed to strike, some successful Iran and successful Lebanon,” helium said. “There’s much to come. We volition support our captious interests successful immoderate situation.”
Senior Israeli Cabinet curate says Israel should annex confederate Lebanon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says the warfare against Hezbollah indispensable extremity with a “fundamental change” that includes power of Lebanon up to the Litani River, astir 30 kilometers (20 miles) northbound of the Israeli border.
“The Litani indispensable beryllium our caller borderline with the authorities of Lebanon,” helium told members of his Religious Zionism enactment connected Monday, comparing it to boundaries Israel has acceptable successful Gaza and the Golan Heights.
Israel already has sent thousands of troops into confederate Lebanon arsenic it moves to propulsion Hezbollah militants north. Smotrich leads a tiny ultranationalist enactment and is simply a subordinate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy-making Security Cabinet.
British authorities analyse assertion of work for Jewish ambulance attack
Four Jewish foundation ambulances were acceptable afire Monday successful London. British constabulary said they are investigating it arsenic an antisemitic hatred transgression portion detectives enactment to find the authenticity of a assertion of work from a radical with alleged links to Iran.
Although it has not been classified arsenic a violent incident, counterterror officers are starring the investigation. No 1 was injured successful the nighttime attack, which near the vehicles charred shells.
A video posted connected Telegram, allegedly by an Islamist radical called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, showed a representation of the determination and video of the ambulances connected fire. A radical utilizing the aforesaid sanction antecedently claimed work for synagogue attacks successful Belgium and the Netherlands.
“Establishing the accuracy of this assertion is simply a precedence for the investigating team,” Security Minister Dan Jarvis said.
Israel’s authorities has called it a precocious founded radical with suspected links to pro-Iran networks.
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Iranian and Pakistani overseas ministers speak
During Monday’s telephone call, Pakistan’s apical diplomat emphasized the value of dialog and diplomacy successful promoting “peace, information and stableness successful the portion and beyond” according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
US and Iran exchanged ‘messages’ done determination mediators, authoritative says
Washington and Tehran exchanged the “messages” implicit the play done Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan, an Egyptian authoritative said.
The exchanges aimed astatine averting strikes connected vigor infrastructure successful Iran and the wider region, helium said.
“This is the apical precedence now,” said the official, speaking connected information of anonymity due to the fact that helium was not authorized to talk to the media.
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US defence caput wants much ships. US shipbuilders privation higher wages
Pete Hegseth touted the request to boost defence manufacturing during a morale-boosting quality past period astatine 1 of the U.S. Navy’s largest shipbuilding contractors. Now 627 designers, clerks and technicians astatine General Dynamics Bath Iron Works person gone connected strike, conscionable arsenic the U.S. intensifies its warfare effort successful Iran.
They voted to cull the shipyard’s projected wage connection of 10.1% successful the archetypal twelvemonth followed by 4% successful each of the pursuing 3 years.
General Dynamics “continues to marque grounds profits disconnected our labor,” national President Trent Vellella said successful a statement. “We had hoped the institution took to bosom the statements made by Secretary Hegseth present astatine GD BIW connected February 9th because, our rank surely did.”
General Dynamics said it volition proceed operations astatine the shipyard, which has built naval ships for much than a century. Its full workforce is astir 6,800.
UK summons Iran envoy implicit aft 2 men charged with spying
Britain summoned Iran’s ambassador, Seyed Ali Mousavi, to protestation what it called Tehran’s “reckless and destabilising actions” aft 2 men were charged past week with spying connected London’s Jewish assemblage connected behalf of Iran.
The Foreign Office said the U.K. takes threats from Iran and its proxies “extremely seriously.”
Trump says Iran ‘means business’ successful bid talks adjacent arsenic Iranian officials contradict negotiations
Trump said his medication has been negotiating with Iran “for a agelong time” and helium believes a woody is close. But helium didn't clarify who's been progressive successful the talks. Iran's parliament talker and overseas curate denied again Monday that immoderate specified negotiations person happened.
“They privation peace,” Trump said. “They’ve agreed they volition not person a atomic weapon, you know, et cetera, et cetera, but we’ll see.”
In his remarks successful Memphis connected Monday, Trump said there’s a “very bully chance” of a woody this week. He credited his menace to stroke up Iranian powerfulness plants, which helium past paused for different 5 days. “Then we’re going to spot wherever that takes us,” helium said.
Pakistan and Turkey sermon Iran warfare de-escalation
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said its apical diplomat Ishaq Dar spoke with his Turkish counterpart connected Monday, urging continued diplomacy arsenic Islamabad steps up its outreach successful the region.
Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a communal defence pact past twelvemonth saying immoderate onslaught connected either federation is an onslaught connected both.
Regional heavyweights Turkey and Egypt talk to warring parties successful archetypal motion of coordinated mediation
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said helium spoke by telephone with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan. Turkey has been an intermediary successful past talks betwixt Tehran and Washington.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry declined to remark Monday connected whether the state had relayed messages betwixt Iran and the U.S. connected Sunday, Turkish officials said Fidan had besides spoken to his counterparts from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, and the European Union, arsenic good arsenic with U.S. officials arsenic portion of efforts to extremity the war.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Cairo has delivered “clear messages” to Iran focusing connected de-escalating the conflict, according to his office. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said it was making “constant efforts and communications” with each parties.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that the U.K. was ware of talks betwixt the U.S. and Iran, but told British lawmakers “we mustn’t autumn into the mendacious comfortableness of reasoning that determination volition needfully beryllium a speedy and aboriginal extremity to this.”
Red Cross main warns that striking civilian infrastructure risks warfare crimes
Without naming circumstantial countries, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, said successful a connection that “deliberate attacks connected indispensable services and civilian infrastructure tin magnitude to warfare crimes.”
She said the inclination isn’t unsocial to the portion oregon the existent war, “but what we person seen successful caller days successful the Middle East risks reaching a constituent of nary return.”
Earlier Monday, Jamal Abdi, caput of the National Iranian American Council, said Trump “threatening to weaponry Iran’s powerfulness plants is simply a menace to millions of civilians.”
“This is not a ‘targeted’ strike. This is corporate punishment,” Abdi said.
Death toll successful Lebanon reaches 1,039
The Lebanese Health Ministry said Monday that 10 radical had been killed implicit the past 24 hours.
At slightest 118 children and 79 women were among those killed by Israeli strikes successful Lebanon since the outbreak of a caller Israel-Hezbollah war, the ministry said.
The ministry said 90 much radical were besides wounded, raising the full fig of injured to astatine slightest 2,876.
Iran built a immense camera web to power dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool
The relation of Israel’s hijacking of Iran’s thoroughfare cameras successful the sidesplitting of the country’s ultimate person shows however surveillance systems are progressively being utilized for targeting successful wartime.
Hundreds of millions of internet-connected and poorly secured cameras person been installed supra shops, successful homes and connected thoroughfare corners crossed the world. Artificial quality present enables militaries and quality agencies to hunt done immense amounts of information to place targets.
On Feb. 28, Israel vividly demonstrated the imaginable by locating Iranian person Ayatollah Ali Khamenei contempt repeated warnings that Iran’s surveillance systems had been compromised, according to interviews and an Associated Press reappraisal of leaked data, nationalist statements and quality reports.
The usage of hacked surveillance cameras among different quality to termination Khamenei was described to the AP by an quality authoritative with cognition of the cognition and different idiosyncratic who was briefed connected the operation. Neither was authorized to talk with the media and some shared accusation connected information of anonymity.
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Top EU diplomat says Trump’s halt connected striking Iran vigor is ‘very welcome’
“I deliberation immoderate attacks connected infrastructure are causing chaos successful the portion and truly escalating this warfare adjacent further,” European Union overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said astatine a quality league successful Nigeria.
Surging vigor prices person pushed EU leaders to see cost-cutting steps, including expanding renewables, adjusting taxes, pursuing caller commercialized deals and scrapping c credits.
Wright says lipid prices person not risen precocious capable to trigger a important driblet successful demand
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says disruptions successful the planetary lipid marketplace are “temporary” and says terms hikes caused by the Iran warfare are not yet steep capable to trigger a important driblet successful demand.
“Prices person not risen precocious capable yet to thrust meaningful request destruction,” Wright said astatine the CERAWeek vigor league successful Houston.
Oil prices person climbed to much than $100 a tube and U.S. gasoline prices surged to astir $4 a gallon. But Wright said “pragmatic solutions” to merchandise lipid from a strategical reserve and let sanctioned lipid already successful transit to participate the marketplace should assistance mitigate the terms shocks.
He said Asia has been the astir profoundly affected by the proviso disruptions.
International Energy Agency person says planetary system faces ‘major, large threat’
Forty vigor assets successful 9 countries person been “severely oregon precise severely damaged,” Fatih Birol told Australia’s National Press Club connected Monday. “No state volition beryllium immune to the effects of this situation if it continues to spell successful this direction.”
The lipid crises of 1973 and 1979 unneurotic mislaid 10 cardinal barrels per day, causing “major economical problems astir the world, the recessions. And today, lone arsenic of today, we mislaid 11 cardinal barrels per day,” helium said.
After Russia’s penetration of Ukraine, state markets mislaid astir 75 cardinal cubic meters, and person present mislaid astir 140 BCM arsenic a effect of this crisis, helium added.
The IEA released a historical 400 cardinal barrels of stockpiled lipid “to comfortableness the markets,” and is consulting with governments successful Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East astir releasing more, helium said.
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UK warship, US bearer stay docked successful Greece
The U.K.’s aerial defence destroyer HMS Dragon was docked astatine Greece’s Souda Bay naval base, en way to assistance support British subject bases successful Cyprus from Iranian drone oregon rocket attacks.
The vessel departed the U.K. connected March 3, 2 days aft an evident Iranian drone launched from Lebanon struck the RAF Akrotiri aerial base, causing insignificant harm to an craft hangar. No timeline was fixed for HMS Dragon’s accomplishment disconnected Cyprus. Reports suggest it had to implicit trainings earlier deployment.
Meanwhile, the USS Gerald R. Ford craft bearer remains docked astatine the aforesaid naval basal successful Greece, 10 days aft the subject said it had a “not combat-related” occurrence portion operating successful the Red Sea. Its departure meant the U.S. has lone 1 craft bearer supporting operations against Iran.
Trump stresses that helium believes Iran wants a woody ‘very badly’
“All I’m saying is, we are successful the throes of a existent anticipation of making a deal,” Trump said arsenic helium wrapped his extended speech with reporters earlier boarding Air Force One.
“And I think, if I were a betting antheral I’d stake for it. But again, I’m not guaranteeing anything,” helium said.
More from Trump connected Iran’s atomic program
Speaking to reporters connected Monday, Trump said the U.S. would retrieve Iran’s enriched uranium arsenic portion of a imaginable statement with the Islamic Republic.
“It’s precise easy, if we person a woody with them, we’re going down and we’ll instrumentality it ourselves,” Trump said arsenic helium departed from a play successful Florida.
Trump said immoderate woody with Iran would see ending the country’s atomic capabilities.
“We privation to see, nary atomic bomb, nary atomic weapon. Not adjacent adjacent to it,” helium said.
Trump claims US has been holding talks with a ‘respected’ Iranian leader
Trump told reporters Monday his Middle East peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner conducted talks Sunday into the evening.
He said talks would proceed today.
Trump did not sanction immoderate authoritative oregon officials representing Tehran. Trump said the U.S. has not talked to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.
Trump said if a woody is reached with Iran, the U.S. volition determination to instrumentality Iran’s enriched uranium captious to its disputed atomic program.
UN peacekeepers accidental their office successful Lebanon was struck
The U.N. peacekeeping unit successful confederate Lebanon, known arsenic UNIFIL, said Monday that a gathering astatine its office successful the coastal municipality of Naqoura was struck by a projectile. The U.N. said it believes it “was fired by a non-state actor,” an evident notation to the Lebanese militant radical Hezbollah.
Hezbollah and Israeli forces person fought astatine aggregate points on the borderline since Israel launched a renewed crushed incursion into confederate Lebanon. The UNIFIL connection said that “over the past 48 hours, peacekeepers person recorded aggravated gunfire and explosions” successful the Naqoura area, and “bullets, fragments, and shrapnel person deed buildings and unfastened areas wrong our headquarters. ... As a result, peacekeepers person been restricted to shelters to debar injury.”
UNIFIL spokesperson Kandice Ardiel said peacekeepers person besides observed oregon heard crushed combat astir the villages of Khiam, Odaisseh, Mays al-Jabal, Markaba and Taybeh.
Russia volition evacuate much unit from Iran’s atomic plant
The caput of Russia’s authorities atomic corp Rosatom said Monday it volition evacuate much workers from Iran’s Russia-built atomic powerfulness works but volition besides support some.
Alexei Likhachev, who said past week that Rosatom had 480 workers astatine the works successful Bushehr, announced that evacuations this week volition permission conscionable a fewer twelve Rosatom workers astatine the plant.
Last week, Likhachev reported a onslaught deed adjacent to the moving atomic reactor without causing harm oregon injuries. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia had urged the U.S. to debar hitting the plant, informing it could trigger “irreparable” consequences.
2 Iranian quality agencies adjacent to Revolutionary Guard assertion nary negotiations betwixt Tehran and US
Two Iranian semiofficial quality agencies adjacent to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed that determination had been nary negotiations — nonstop oregon indirect — with Washington arsenic described by Trump.
The Fars and Tasnim quality agencies alternatively portrayed the American president arsenic backing down owed to Iran’s threats.
“Since the commencement of the war, messages person been sent to Tehran by immoderate mediators, but Iran’s wide effect has been that it volition proceed its defence until the required level of deterrence is achieved,” Tasnim’s study said. “No negotiations person taken spot and nary are underway. ... With this benignant of intelligence warfare, neither the Strait of Hormuz volition instrumentality to prewar conditions nor volition calm instrumentality to vigor markets.”
Trump’s postponement of Strait of Hormuz deadline is latest switch
Trump’s announcement of “productive conversations” with Iran and the postponement of a deadline for the state to reopen the strait is lone the latest displacement from a person who has often been contradictory successful his objectives.
Trump’s station connected his Truth Social level Monday said helium would clasp disconnected connected strikes for 5 days amid talks with Iran, astir 12 hours up of the erstwhile deadline helium had set.
The president sometimes contradicts himself successful the aforesaid speech, societal media station oregon adjacent sentence. His mixed signals astir the Iran warfare Friday raised much questions astir his administration’s strategy.
Oman moving to unafraid transit done the strait
Oman’s apical diplomat says his country, which has agelong mediated betwixt the U.S. and Iran, is moving to unafraid harmless transit done the Strait of Hormuz. He did not elaborate.
Foreign Minister Bad Albusaidi besides wrote successful a societal media station that Iran is not to beryllium blamed for the war.
“Whatever your presumption of Iran, this warfare is not of their making. This is already causing wide economical problems,” helium wrote.
Chinese envoy: ‘We each cognize who started this war’
China’s Middle East envoy pinned the blasted squarely connected the U.S. and Israel for a warfare helium said has dealt a dense stroke to the planetary system and shipping lanes.
“We each cognize who started this war,” Zhai Jun told reporters successful Beijing aft a caller travel to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and Egypt.
Asked astir the biggest obstacle to a ceasefire, helium quoted a Chinese saying. “To untie a belt, the idiosyncratic who tied it is needed,” helium said, repeating his government’s telephone for the U.S. and Israel to halt their subject actions instantly and instrumentality to negotiations.
Zhai said the ongoing warring made his delegation’s travel an antithetic one, including witnessing rocket interceptions supra them. “We heard explosions and sirens for the archetypal clip successful a existent war, helium said.
Trump extends deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz for 5 days
Trump made the announcement connected his Truth Social website Monday, conscionable hours up of a deadline aboriginal successful the day.
Writing successful each superior letters, helium said the U.S. and Iran person had “very bully and productive conversations” that could output “a implicit and full resolution” successful the war. Talks volition proceed “throughout the week,” Trump said.
Modi says Iran warfare straining India’s vigor security
Speaking successful Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Monday compared the challenges caused by the warfare to those faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and said India needs to beryllium arsenic prepared this time.
Modi said the country’s powerfulness plants person capable ember reserves and that each powerfulness proviso systems are being intimately monitored arsenic summertime approaches and request rises. He said India’s fertilizer stocks stay sufficient.
“This warfare is not successful the involvement of humanity. India is encouraging each sides to extremity warfare peacefully,” Modi said.
Explosions stone Tehran
Associated Press journalists heard explosions crossed aggregate points successful Iran’s capital, Tehran, connected Monday afternoon. It wasn’t instantly wide what was hit.
Iran fired 2 missiles and 36 drones astatine Bahrain
Bahrain's Defense Ministry said the projectiles were fired successful the past 24 hours.
The Kremlin warns US against striking Iran’s atomic powerfulness plant
The Kremlin said Monday that immoderate U.S. strikes connected Iran’s Russia-built atomic powerfulness works could trigger “irreparable” consequences.
Asked astir Trump’s informing to “obliterate” Iran’s powerfulness plants if it doesn’t afloat unfastened the Strait of Hormuz, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the “catastrophically tense” concern successful the portion could lone beryllium settled by governmental and diplomatic means.
Peskov warned that immoderate strikes connected atomic facilities would beryllium “extremely unsafe and fraught with perchance irreparable consequences,” adding that Russia has “conveyed applicable signals” to the U.S.
Egypt denounces Israel’s strikes connected Lebanon’s infrastructure
“The deliberate demolition of infrastructure successful Lebanon represents a blatant Israeli argumentation of corporate punishment,” the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said successful a Monday statement.
It criticized Israel’s “systemic and deliberate” strikes, including connected bridges connected the Litani River successful southbound Lebanon.
Sara Netanyahu flies to US for league of archetypal spouses
The woman of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington aboriginal Monday for a gathering of dozens of archetypal spouses organized by archetypal woman Melania Trump.
According to the premier minister’s office, Netanyahu volition beryllium successful the states for 2 oregon 3 days and is expected to instrumentality to Israel instantly afterward. The White House said the gathering of archetypal spouses volition absorption connected supporting children done the “safe and innovative usage of technology.”
Israeli airstrike destroys span connected Litani River successful southbound Lebanon
The onslaught connected the span Monday successful the confederate colony of Qaaqaaiyet al-Jisr chopped a main nexus betwixt the confederate metropolis of Nabatiyeh and al-Hujair vale portion farther south.
The state-run National News Agency gave nary further details astir the latest onslaught connected a span implicit the Litani to beryllium destroyed successful caller days.
On Sunday, Israel struck the Qasmiyeh span adjacent the confederate larboard metropolis of Tyre.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called Israel’s caller targeting of bridges successful the southbound “a prelude to a crushed invasion.”
Iran threatens to deploy naval mines crossed the ‘entire Persian Gulf’ if a onshore penetration happens
Iran’s Defense Council issued the connection arsenic interest successful Tehran grows astir the imaginable accomplishment of U.S. Marines to the region.
“Any effort by the force to people Iran’s coasts oregon islands will, people and successful accordance with established subject practice, pb to the mining of each entree routes ... successful the Persian Gulf and on the coasts,” the assembly said.
The U.S. has been trying to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the constrictive rima of the Persian Gulf, to vigor shipments. The Marines could travel ashore to prehend either islands oregon territory successful Iran to enactment that mission. Israel besides has suggested a crushed cognition could instrumentality portion successful the war.
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