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- The deadline that Donald Trump set for reopening the strait of Hormuz fast approaches. The US president has again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran did not meet his deadline of Tuesday 8pm ET (midnight Tuesday GMT) and said he was “not at all” concerned about that doing so could possibly constitute committing a war crime. “You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon,” he said.
- As the deadline draws nearer, the US and Iran are engaging in last-ditch talks, according to officials in Pakistan’s Islamabad, which is acting as an intermediary for the indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran. Earlier, Iran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wanted a permanent end to the conflict.
- Three gunmen engaged in a shootout with Turkish police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. While their motive is still under investigation – Istanbul’s governor told reporters that there have been no Israeli diplomatic staff at the consulate in Istanbul for two and a half years – Mustafa Ciftci, the Turkish minister of the interior, posted on X that one of the attackers had ties to “an organisation that exploits religion”. One attacker was killed and the other two were injured. Two policemen were also injured.
- The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Israeli forces struck a key petrochemical compound in Shiraz in southern Iran. The Guardian was not able to independently verify this claim. According to the IDF, this facility was one of the last remaining facilities that produced critical chemical components for explosives and materials for ballistic missiles.
- The Israeli military also on Tuesday 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”.
- Israel and the US struck 17 civilian targets on Tuesday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent said, in attacks that the humanitarian NGO have decried as war crimes.
- Nearly 3,600 people have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran since attacks began, including at least 1,665 civilians, the Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA) said. Of those numbers, at least 248 of those killed were children. At least 49 civilians were killed and 58 others were injured on Monday, according to HRANA, which recorded 573 attacks across 215 incidents in 20 provinces over that 24-hour period – the highest rate of attacks seen in the last ten days.
- In Lebanon, at least eight people were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes on the southern region, according to the state-run National News Agency. Although the Guardian could not independently verify these numbers, the Israeli military issued an alert on Monday warning residents of a number of villages in the area that the IDF planned to take strong action here.
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