Middle East crisis live: Trump threatens US will
hit Iran ‘hard again tonight’ after saying truce is over
Iranian foreign ministry said earlier US and
Israeli attacks had rendered interim accord to end war ‘ineffective’
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Donald
Trump warned the US is preparing to launch more strikes against Iran, after he
said he considered the US-Iran truce to be “over”. “I’ll give a little warning
– we’re going to hit them hard tonight,” the US president told reporters at the Nato summit in Turkey.
Iran’s
southern region was rocked by a wave of US strikes, with state media reporting
explosions in the cities of Bandar Abbas and Bushehr along the Gulf coast. The
Pentagon said the strikes were in response to Iranian attacks on three
commercial ships in the strait of Hormuz.
Arsenio
Dominguez, the secretary general of the International Maritime Organization
(IMO), said nearly 6,000 seafarers are stranded in the strait of Hormuz, as he
called for “maximum restraint and de-escalation” after US and Iran exchanged
attacks in the region.
The
Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has likened the US’s conduct as co-host
of the World Cup to its foreign policy approach, in that it’s “bending rules,
bullying rivals, creating obstacles, and cheating”. “This is their MAGA
playbook. Iran rejects such games. We stand firmly for our rights,” he wrote on
X.
The
Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of
defence, has cancelled a planned trip to Israel as violence escalates in the
Middle East. Hegseth was expected to meet Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and defence minister Israel Katz, according to reports. It would have
been his first trip to the country as US defence secretary.
Oil
markets have recorded the sharpest price rise in nearly two months after a
series of attacks on fossil fuel tankers near the strait of Hormuz led Donald
Trump to declare that the ceasefire deal with Iran was “over”. Brent, the
global crude benchmark rose by 5% on Wednesday to more than $78 a barrel, the
highest price since the US and Iran agreed the ceasefire while negotiating an
end to the war last month.
The new
secretary general of the Arab League, Nabil Fahmy, said Israel had blocked him
from visiting Ramallah, in what would have been his first foreign visit since
taking office this month. The regional bloc’s secretariat was informed by
Palestinian authorities “of the Israeli occupation authorities’ rejection of a
visit... to the occupied Palestinian territories” to visit Palestinian
president Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, Fahmy’s office said in a statement.
An
Israeli soldier’s photo of a Palestinian man from Gaza stripped to his
underwear, blindfolded and bound face-down to an iron rod corroborates
extensive reporting on Israeli torture of Palestinians in detention and itself
may constitute a war crime, rights groups have said. The image was shared on a
now-deleted personal social media account, with the Hebrew-language caption
“good morning”. It was brought to wider public attention by a Palestinian
writer and activist who goes by Tamer.
Kuwait’s
armed forces has issued an update on the Iranian attacks against the country
this morning, saying it had intercepted two ballistic missiles and 13 drones
that breached Kuwaiti airspace at dawn. “The incident resulted in no material
damage or casualties,” it added in a statement.
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