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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.
- 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.
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