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Speaking aboard Air Force One, Trump said he had 'demanded' that about seven countries reliant on Middle East oil help police the Strait of Hormuz, declining to name them. In a Financial Times interview he warned that a negative response would be 'very bad for the future of NATO.'
The Dubai Media Office said a drone struck a fuel tank at Dubai International Airport early Monday, starting a fire that civil defense crews contained with no injuries reported. Flights were suspended as a precaution and later partially resumed.
West Texas Intermediate traded at about $101.02 shortly after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reopened Sunday evening, up 2.3% from Friday's close, while Brent was at $106.39. Both benchmarks were up more than 40% since the war began.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told CBS' Face the Nation that Iran never asked for a ceasefire or negotiations and sees 'no reason' to talk with the Americans, but is open to talks with countries seeking safe passage through Hormuz. He said the strait is closed only to the U.S. and its allies and that Iran's nuclear material lies under rubble with no plan to recover it.
MarineTraffic said the Aframax tanker Karachi, carrying Abu Dhabi's Das crude, crossed the strait with its AIS transponder broadcasting, the first non-Iranian cargo to do so since the war began. It said the ship entered Iran's exclusive economic zone at 11:33 UTC and crossed at 14:43 UTC, suggesting select shipments may be getting negotiated safe passage.
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee ordered residents of Haret Hreik, Ghobeiry, Laylaki, Hadath, Burj al-Barajneh, Tahwitat al-Ghadir and Shiyah to leave immediately after a night of strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs. Lebanon's Health Ministry said at least 850 people, including 107 children, had been killed since March 2.
United Hatzalah said an Iranian barrage on Sunday damaged 23 sites around Tel Aviv, and Magen David Adom said two men were lightly wounded. A later barrage damaged an apartment in Bnei Brak and hurt people there and in Ramat Gan and Petah Tikva.
Iran's semi-official Fars and SNN reported 15 people killed in a strike on a factory making heating and cooling equipment in Isfahan on Saturday, a working day in Iran. Israel's military said it had not targeted the area and the U.S. military declined to comment.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said many countries would join the U.S. in sending warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and named China, France, Japan, South Korea and the U.K. as nations he hoped would help. He said the U.S. would keep 'bombing the hell out of the shoreline' and shooting Iranian boats out of the water.
Iran's judiciary news agency Mizan claimed without evidence that U.S. forces were using the civilian ports of Jebel Ali, Khalifa and Fujairah, called them legitimate targets and told people nearby to evacuate. Earlier Saturday a drone interception sparked a fire near Fujairah's port, and Iran's joint command threatened U.S.-linked oil facilities if its own energy sites were hit.
India's Foreign Ministry said the gas carriers Shivalik and Nanda Devi had passed through the strait, after Iran's ambassador to India said some Indian vessels were being allowed through. Reuters, cited by CBS, reported 22 Indian-flagged gas carriers were making the passage.
A missile struck a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone, two Iraqi security officials said, and video obtained by AP showed smoke rising from the compound; the embassy did not immediately comment. It had renewed its Level 4 security alert a day earlier, warning of attacks by Iran and aligned militias.
Trump said U.S. Central Command had 'obliterated every MILITARY target' on Kharg Island, the terminal for about 90% of Iran's oil exports, but chose not to hit its oil infrastructure and would reconsider if Iran interfered with shipping in Hormuz. CENTCOM later said more than 90 targets, including mine and missile storage, were hit; Iranian media reported at least 15 explosions and no damage to oil facilities.
Lebanon's Health Ministry said an Israeli strike on the primary health care center in Burj Qalaouiyah, Bint Jbeil district, killed 12 doctors, paramedics and nurses on duty, hours after another strike killed two paramedics in Souaneh. It put the toll since March 2 at 773 killed, including 18 paramedics.
U.S. officials said elements of the Japan-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were ordered to the region; CBS said such a group typically numbers about 5,000 sailors and Marines across several ships. AP said the force was more than a week's sailing from the waters off Iran.
U.S. Central Command said all six airmen aboard a KC-135 refueling plane that went down in western Iraq on Thursday were dead and that the loss was not due to hostile or friendly fire. U.S. officials told CBS a second KC-135 was damaged but landed safely, while Iran-backed Iraqi militias claimed they shot the plane down.
At a Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. and Israeli forces had struck more than 15,000 targets, Iran's missile launches fell 90% and drone launches 95% on Thursday, and Mojtaba Khamenei was 'wounded and likely disfigured.' He gave no evidence for the leader's condition and said Friday would bring the highest volume of U.S. strikes yet.
Iranian state TV reported a large blast near Ferdowsi Square, down Enghelab Street from Tehran University, as crowds marked Quds Day; earlier that morning Israel had posted a Farsi warning to evacuate the area. The Israeli military later suggested the strike was its own, noting that the judiciary chief was at the rally, which security official Ali Larijani also attended.
Magen David Adom said one person was moderately hurt and 57 lightly injured, mostly by glass, when a strike hit the Arab-Israeli village of Zarzir early Friday, damaging homes and cars. Hezbollah said it had fired rocket salvos toward northern Israel that morning; AP's first report described it as a missile attack.
President Emmanuel Macron said Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion of the 7th Alpine Chasseurs Battalion died after a drone struck the Mala Qara base in Iraq's Irbil region, a Kurdish base where French troops were training Iraqi units. France's armed forces ministry said six other soldiers were in hospital.
The Treasury Department issued a one-month license authorizing delivery and sale of Russian crude and petroleum products loaded onto ships on or before March 12. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the narrow measure covers only oil in transit; analysts had estimated about 125 million barrels were at sea.
A U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran went down in western Iraq after an incident involving a second KC-135, which landed safely, Central Command said, adding that the loss was not due to hostile or friendly fire. Rescue efforts were underway and the crew's status was unknown that night; an Iraqi intelligence source told CBS News the plane went down near Turaibil on the Jordanian border.
Israeli military Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee told Lebanese residents to move north of the Zahrani River, which at its midpoint lies about 56 kilometers from the border, as Israel acted against Hezbollah. Earlier, Defense Minister Israel Katz said he and Netanyahu had ordered the military to prepare to expand operations in Lebanon and warned Israel would "take the territory" if Lebanon's government did not stop Hezbollah.
In a statement read by a state TV anchor rather than by him, Iran's new supreme leader said "the lever of closing the Strait of Hormuz must certainly continue to be used," that attacks on U.S. bases in the region would continue, and that Gulf states should shut those bases down. He said Iran had studied opening "other fronts" and would take compensation from the enemy or "destroy its assets to the same extent."
Israel's military said it hit the Taleghan 2 facility at Parchin "in recent days." Israel had destroyed the site in an October 2024 airstrike, and satellite photos earlier this year had raised concerns Iran was working to restore it; Vantor imagery dated March 11 showed damaged buildings.
An airstrike on a Popular Mobilization Forces site belonging to the 19th Brigade of Ansar Allah al-Awfiya in the Akashat desert area near Iraq's western border killed at least 14 fighters and wounded 36 early Thursday, two PMF officials said, blaming the United States and Israel. It was the force's biggest loss since the war began.
UNHCR said preliminary assessments showed 600,000 to 1 million Iranian households, up to 3.2 million people, temporarily displaced inside Iran by the war, most of them from Tehran and other major cities toward the north or rural areas. It said the figure was likely to keep rising as hostilities persisted.
Two tankers, the U.S.-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged Safesea Vishnu and the Maltese-flagged Zefyros, were attacked and caught fire near Basra, killing an Indian sailor; Iraq's ports authority said 38 crew were rescued and halted operations at all of the country's oil terminals while commercial ports stayed open.
A strike on a car along Beirut's Ramlet al-Bayda seafront, where dozens of displaced families were sheltering in makeshift tents, killed at least seven people and wounded 21, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Israel's military said it was not aware of a strike at that location, AP reported.
Fire crews battled a blaze at fuel storage tanks at Oman's Port of Salalah, the Oman News Agency said, with videos showing thick black smoke and large flames. Kuwait's Foreign Ministry condemned what it called Iran's targeting of the port and its fuel tanks as a "dangerous escalation" that threatened global trade.
Israeli jets struck Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday evening after Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at once into northern Israel, one of its largest attacks of the conflict; the Israeli military said about 200 rockets from Lebanon were fired in coordination with Iranian ballistic missiles. Lebanon's Health Ministry said 634 people, including 91 children, had been killed and more than 1,500 wounded since the fighting began.
The Security Council voted 13-0, with China and Russia abstaining, for a Bahrain-drafted resolution demanding an immediate end to Iranian attacks on Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE and condemning any Iranian move to obstruct navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. A Russian draft urging all sides to halt hostilities, without naming any country, failed to get the nine votes needed.
The International Energy Agency said its member countries would release 400 million barrels from emergency reserves, the largest release in its history, a move G7 leaders backed. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the U.S. share would be 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, starting next week and taking about 120 days to deliver.
Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesman for Iran's central military command, said an alleged U.S.-Israeli strike on an Iranian bank was "forcing our hand to target economic centres and banks linked to the U.S. and Zionist regime in the region," and told people to stay at least a kilometer away from such banks.
The Thai-flagged bulk carrier Mayuree Naree was hit by two projectiles about 10 nautical miles off Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, damaging its engine room and starting a fire; Oman's navy rescued 20 of its 23 Thai crew and three were believed trapped. Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed the attack, saying the ship ignored its warnings, hours after a container ship was hit off the UAE's Ras al-Khaimah.
U.S. officials told CBS News that Iran appeared ready to lay naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz using small craft carrying two or three mines each. Trump then said U.S. forces had destroyed 10 "inactive" mine-laying boats, and Central Command later put Tuesday's tally at 16 minelayers among multiple Iranian naval vessels destroyed.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the U.S. Navy had not escorted any tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, contradicting a quickly deleted post by Energy Secretary Chris Wright that had moved oil markets, though she said escorts remained "an option." The U.S. International Development Finance Corp. said it was providing $20 billion in reinsurance on a rolling basis to cover ships in the Gulf against political-risk losses.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said about 140 U.S. service members had been wounded in the war's first 10 days, most of them lightly, with 108 already back on duty and eight severely injured. Seven U.S. troops had been killed in Iranian attacks in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
The UN refugee agency said more than 667,000 people had registered on Lebanon's displacement platform in a week, with the number rising by over 100,000 in a single day, and that Syria reported more than 78,000 Syrians crossing back from Lebanon. France called an emergency Security Council meeting on Lebanon for the next day.
At a Pentagon news conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday would be "yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran" and that Iran had fired its fewest missiles of the war in the previous 24 hours. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said U.S.-Israeli strikes had hit some 5,000 targets and cut Iran's missile launches by 90%.
Abu Dhabi authorities said a drone attack caused a fire at a facility in the Ruwais industrial complex, with no injuries. ADNOC shut the Ruwais refinery, which can process up to 922,000 barrels a day, as a precaution while other operations at the complex continued, a source told Reuters.
IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naeini said Iran "will not allow the export of even a single liter of oil from the region to the hostile side and its partners until further notice," calling U.S. efforts to control oil and gas prices "temporary and ineffective." The Guard also said "it is we who will determine the end of the war."
Trump posted that if Iran "does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz" it would be hit "TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far," threatening targets that would make it "virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation." At a news conference earlier Monday he warned Iran would pay an "incalculable" price.
Oil whipped from nearly $120 a barrel back toward $90 on Monday and the S&P 500 erased a 1.5% drop to close up 0.8% as Trump told CBS News the war was "very complete, pretty much" and "very far ahead of schedule," and said he was "thinking about taking over" the Strait of Hormuz.
Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov said Putin offered "a few ideas aimed at a quick political and diplomatic settlement" of the Iran conflict, drawing on his talks with Gulf leaders and Iran's president, in a call of about an hour that also touched on Venezuela and the oil market. Trump confirmed the call and said he told Putin he could help most by ending the war in Ukraine.
International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said at least seven mariners had been killed and several others gravely injured in recent attacks on merchant ships around the Strait of Hormuz. He did not assign blame and urged shipping companies to use "maximum caution."
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters in Paris that the campaign had caused "a couple" of impacts at Natanz and one at Isfahan, close to a tunnel, and called the damage "not a very major one." He did not say when the sites were hit or by whom.
Turkey's presidential office said a ballistic missile fired from Iran toward Turkey was "engaged and neutralized by NATO air and missile defense elements" over Gaziantep's Sahinbey district, with no casualties. Ankara summoned Iran's ambassador to demand an explanation; NATO had also intercepted an Iranian missile over Turkey on March 4.
Submunitions from an Iranian missile's cluster warhead struck at least six sites in central Israel on Monday morning, including Yehud, Or Yehuda, Holon and Bat Yam. One man was killed at a construction site in Yehud and a second worker there died of his wounds the next day; both were Petah Tikva residents.