Key events
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Australia says Iranian drones attacked airbase in United Arab Emirates
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Israel orders new evacuations in Lebanon
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Netanyahu: this will not be an “endless war”
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Oil prices continue to rise amid growing fears of supply disruptions
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Netanyahu says Iran’s nuclear program makes it vital to strike now
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Rubio says US attacks on Iran were provoked by Israel’s attack plan
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The Saudis confirm that the US embassy in Riyadh was hit by two drones that caused a fire
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Fire at US embassy in Riyadh after two drone attacks, Saudis say
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Fire after explosion at US embassy in Riyadh: report
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Confusion over the status of the vital Strait of Hormuz
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Lebanon bans Hezbollah military actions
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The day so far
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Israel works to intercept new missiles launched from Iran
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Trump claims Iran “would have had a nuclear bomb three years ago”
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US urges citizens to immediately leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries
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Israeli army says it has launched new waves of attacks on Tehran
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Marco Rubio says the United States would not “deliberately” attack a school
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The United States attacked Iran “preventively” after learning that Israel was going to launch attacks: Rubio
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Six US service members killed in conflict with Iran, military says
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Strait of Hormuz is closed, says Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
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‘Killing terrorists is good for America’: White House says 49 top Iranian leaders killed in attacks
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US military claims to have destroyed all Iranian ships in Gulf of Oman
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Israel’s UN envoy says Iran operation will last ‘as long as necessary’
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UK “does not believe in regime change from heaven”, says Starmer
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The day so far
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Israeli attacks kill more than 50 people in Lebanon
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Trump says US mission in Iran is ‘substantially ahead’ and could last 4-5 weeks
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US continues to carry out ‘large-scale operations’ in Iran, says Trump
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Trump does not rule out the possibility of the US attacking ground in Iran
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Trump on attacks on Iran: “The big wave hasn’t even happened”
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it attacked 500 US and Israeli sites
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IDF says it launched a ‘broad wave’ of attacks ‘in the heart of Tehran’
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Pentagon to brief media this morning on Trump’s attacks on Iran
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Fourth US service member ‘killed in action’: Centcom
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QatarEnergy stops production of liquefied natural gas after attacks
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What we know so far…
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Two drones heading towards RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus intercepted, spokesperson says
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US says three planes ‘went down’ over Kuwait ‘due to apparent friendly fire incident’
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Iran’s ‘reckless’ attacks threaten regional stability, say US and allied Gulf states
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Saudi Arabia halts some operations at Ras Tanura refinery after alleged attack
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Mass evacuation of cities across the Middle East may be necessary if nuclear plants are attacked, says UN nuclear chief
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IDF says ‘all options are on the table’ in response to question about possible ground invasion of Lebanon
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At least 555 people have been killed in Iran by US and Israeli attacks, says Iranian Red Crescent Society
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Saudi oil refinery reportedly halts operations after drone attack
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Kuwait says ‘several’ US warplanes crashed in country and all crew survived
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Summary
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Israeli military says fighting Hezbollah could take ‘many’ more days
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US Embassy in Kuwait warns of threat of attack and urges people to take cover
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Israeli attacks in Lebanon kill 31: report
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Iran launches another wave of attacks against Israel and Gulf cities
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Israeli general says attacks on Lebanon will intensify
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Iran’s security chief says he ‘will not negotiate’ with the United States
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At least 10 dead in Israeli attacks in Beirut: report
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Waves of people flee Beirut amid airstrikes and evacuation orders
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UK responds to suspected drone attack on Cyprus base, MoD says
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opening summary
Helena Smith
in Larnaca
Deeper Cyprus Local officials are confirming that almost all residents have been evacuated tonight from the town of Akrotiri surrounding the British RAF installation which has been attacked by combat drones.
“Everyone has left, except about 20 people who refused to leave,” the area’s deputy mayor, Giorgos Konstantinos, told The Guardian. “It has been a massive evacuation given the circumstances and the fear.”
Police forces had been reinforced this evening around the RAF base, from where non-essential personnel were also moved to other parts of the sovereign base areas – a legacy of colonial rule – for security reasons following Sunday’s midnight drone attack.
It is not yet clear whether the unmanned vehicles, two others of which were intercepted earlier on Monday, were deployed against the base from Iranor shot by Iranian proxy forces in Lebanon.
Trump claims Iran “would have had a nuclear bomb three years ago”
donald trump has stated, without evidence, that if he had not broken the nuclear deal with Iran signed by the former president of the United States barack obama In 2015, Tehran would have already had a nuclear bomb.
He wrote on his Truth Social platform:
If he had not ended Obama’s horrendous Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), Iran would have had a nuclear weapon three years ago. That was the most dangerous transaction we had ever made, and if it had been allowed to stand, the world would be a completely different place right now. You can blame Barack Hussein Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden. THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!
He IAEA It verified that Iran was complying with the JCPOA, which limited its uranium enrichment, at the time. It only violated those limits after Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2018.
In addition to our previous post, the Israeli The military said it had targeted the complex Iranstate broadcaster IRIB in Tehranafter an evacuation warning for the area.
US urges citizens to immediately leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries
The US State Department has urged Americans to immediately leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries amid US-Israeli attacks against Iran.
American citizens were urged to leave using commercial means of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israelhe [occupied] West Bank and Loop, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemenaccording Mora Namdarundersecretary of consular affairs of the department.
Hundreds of thousands of travelers are currently stranded in the Gulf States as airspace over some of the world’s busiest international airports, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, closed over the weekend.
He US embassy in Kuwait was attacked by drones, three diplomatic sources told AFP Earlier, smoke was seen coming from the diplomatic mission..
A Kuwait-based diplomat and a Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the embassy had been damaged by several drones, while a second Kuwait-based diplomat said the embassy building had been directly hit in the attack.
As an AFP correspondent saw smoke rising from the diplomatic mission on the third day of retaliatory attacks by Iran in the Gulf, the US embassy warned that people should not go to the facilities, warning of “a continuing threat from missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles”. [drone] attacks on Kuwait.”
The Israeli military has issued a new evacuation warning for residents of the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.
We will bring you the latest updates as we get them.
Israeli army says it has launched new waves of attacks on Tehran
The Israeli military says it has begun a new wave of attacks on Tehran. This came shortly after the military issued an evacuation warning for Tehran residents, especially those located near the headquarters of Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.
Israel’s Channel 12 reports that Iranian television is one of the targets of the latest attacks, citing an Israeli source.
The United States will take steps to mitigate rising energy prices after the conflict with Iran has driven up oil prices, Marco Rubio said Monday.
The US secretary of state said more details about the plans would be released on Tuesday. He spoke shortly after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz – critical to the global flow of oil shipments – and would fire on any ships that attempted to pass through.
Rubio told reporters: “Starting tomorrow, you’ll see us implementing those phases to try to mitigate that… We anticipate this could be an issue.”
Marco Rubio says the United States would not “deliberately” attack a school
united states secretary of state marcorubio insisted that the United States would not “deliberately” attack a school, after Iran said 168 people were killed in an alleged US-Israeli attack.
“The United States would not deliberately attack a school. Our objectives are the missiles, both the ability to manufacture them and the ability to launch them,” Rubio told reporters, while adding that the Pentagon was investigating the alleged incident.
The school attack appears to be the worst mass casualty event of the US-Israel-led bombing campaign against Iran so far.
Marco Rubio reiterated what Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth said earlier Monday that regime change in Iran was not the goal of the US-Israel combat operation.
But Rubio added that the United States hoped the Iranians would overthrow the regime.
“We hope that the Iranian people can overthrow this government and establish a new future for that country. We would love for that to be possible,” Rubio told reporters.
“But the objective of this mission is the destruction of its ballistic missile capabilities and its naval capabilities,” he added.
