The Latest: Trump suggests US could take Iran’s Kharg Island

U.S. President Donald Trump has raised the thought of American forces seizing Iran’s Kharg Island, its main lipid terminal successful the Persian Gulf.

“Maybe we instrumentality Kharg Island, possibly we don’t. We person a batch of options,” Trump told the Financial Times successful an interrogation Monday. “It would besides mean we had to beryllium determination (on Kharg Island) for a while.”

Iran has threatened to excavation the Persian Gulf if its territory is invaded. The United States and Israel kept up their attacks Monday connected the Islamic Republic, adjacent arsenic determination were signs of advancement successful nascent ceasefire talks. Iran struck a cardinal h2o and electrical works successful hard-hit Kuwait, portion of its ongoing run targeting the Gulf Arab states.

Trump besides said that Iran had agreed to let 20 ships carrying lipid done the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday greeting and continuing implicit the adjacent fewer days “out of a motion of respect.”

“I would lone accidental that we’re doing highly good successful that dialog but you ne'er cognize with Iran due to the fact that we negociate with them and past we ever person to stroke them up,” helium said.

The warfare has already threatened planetary supplies of lipid and earthy gas, sparked fertilizer shortages and disrupted aerial travel. Iran’s grip connected the strategical Strait of Hormuz has shaken markets and prices.

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China backs Pakistan’s mediation efforts betwixt Iran and the US

“We admit Pakistan’s efforts to assistance de-escalate the situation, enactment Pakistan successful continuing to play a mediating role,” said China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning.

She told a regular briefing successful Beijing that China is acceptable to coordinate with Pakistan and immoderate different applicable enactment “to jointly beforehand bid and cease hostilities to safeguard determination bid and stability.”

Pakistan announced Sunday that it would soon big talks betwixt the U.S. and Iran, though determination was nary contiguous connection from Washington oregon Tehran, and it was unclear whether discussions connected the monthlong warfare would beryllium nonstop oregon indirect.

2 members of Iranian exile radical were executed

The members of the Iranian exile radical Mujahedeen-e-Khalq were hanged Monday successful Iran, authorities media and the radical said.

The 2 men were identified arsenic Akbar Daneshvarkar and Mohammad Taghavi. Daneshvarkar had been held for years prior. Amnesty International has said Tehran’s Revolutionary Court convicted the men connected charges of equipped rebellion against the authorities “following a grossly unfair proceedings successful October 2024.” It said the men were tortured during interrogations.

Israel passes budget, extending Netanyahu term

Israel needed to walk a fund earlier April 1 successful bid to debar triggering aboriginal elections. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inactive reserves the close to telephone aboriginal elections earlier past if helium wants.

Israel’s absorption slammed the fund for expanding backing to Israel’s ultra-Orthodox communities astatine a clip erstwhile the state is facing soaring costs implicit its warfare successful Iran and is inactive reeling from a two-year warfare successful Gaza.

The $270 cardinal budget, Israel’s largest ever, included a 20% summation for the Ministry of Defense owed to the ongoing warfare against Iran. The ministry’s fund has swollen to $45 billion, forcing cuts successful different authorities ministries.

Lawmakers statement decease punishment for attacks against Israelis successful West Bank

Israel’s parliament is acceptable to ballot connected a measure that would marque the decease punishment the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.

The parliament began statement connected Monday, days earlier its outpouring recess. The bill’s transition would people the culmination of a yearslong propulsion by Israel’s far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis — and triumph for Israel’s firebrand curate of nationalist security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, person of the spiritual enactment that introduced the legislation.

Opponents of the authorities telephone it racist, draconian and improbable to deter attacks by Palestinian militants. Rights groups are expected to petition Israel’s Supreme Court against it.

Iran confirms the Revolutionary Guard navy main was killed

Israel connected Thursday had said it killed Alireza Tangsiri, a rear admiral successful the navy.

A connection from the Guard connected Monday, work connected authorities television, said Tangsiri “joined the ranks of Allah owed to the severity of his injuries.”

It praised his efforts, peculiarly successful helping Iran support a chokehold connected the Strait of Hormuz. “Every combatant is simply a Tangsiri, and we volition spot what surprises they volition bring successful the days and months ahead,” the connection added.

UAE curate calls for ‘disarmament’ of Iranian rocket program

Comments by Noura Al Kaabi, a curate of authorities astatine the UAE’s Foreign Ministry, offered different awesome that the Emirates wants much than conscionable a ceasefire to halt the war.

In a file published by the state-linked, English-language paper The National, Al Kaabi denounced the rocket and drone attacks targeting her state and Iran’s chokehold implicit the Strait of Hormuz.

“We privation a mean neighbor,” she wrote. “An Iranian authorities that launches ballistic missiles astatine homes, weaponizes planetary commercialized and supports proxies is nary longer an acceptable diagnostic of the determination landscape.”

She added: “We privation a warrant that this volition ne'er hap again.”

A petrochemical works was deed successful Iran strike, authorities media say

The works is located immoderate 530 kilometers (330 miles) northwest of the capital, Tehran.

Firefighters enactment retired a blaze astatine the site, media reported.

A suspected Israeli airstrike deed Beirut connected Monday morning

There were nary contiguous reports of casualties.

Oil prices emergence successful aboriginal Monday trading

The spot terms of Brent crude oil, the planetary standard, was astir $115 aboriginal Monday, up astir 60% from Feb. 28, erstwhile the U.S. and Israel started the warfare with attacks connected Iran.

Iranian lawmaker suggests Tehran permission Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

The remark by Alaeddin Boroujerdi to Iranian authorities tv comes aft hard-liners successful Tehran agelong person suggested taking the step.

“Why should we judge the restrictions?” Boroujerdi said. “We are not seeking a atomic limb anyway. But it’s not similar that we are expected to observe the rules of the crippled and they weaponry us.”

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is simply a landmark planetary accord meant to halt the dispersed of atomic arms. Countries that signed it agreed not to physique oregon get atomic weapons and let the International Atomic Energy Agency to behaviour inspections to verify they correctly declared their programs. Iran has been restricting IAEA inspections for years and hasn’t fto them sojourn the 3 enrichment sites bombed by the U.S. successful June.

Latest reports of unrecorded fire

— Israel’s subject said connected Monday greeting that it was striking ‘military infrastructure’ crossed Tehran.

— Bahrain sounded its rocket alert sirens doubly connected Monday.

— At dawn Monday, Israel’s subject said Iran had launched missiles astatine the country. It was the archetypal specified motorboat from Iran of the day. Sirens went disconnected successful the country adjacent Israel’s main atomic probe center, a portion of the state that has been targeted repeatedly implicit the past days.

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