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Iran sent its response to the US peace text through Pakistan, focusing on ending the war on all fronts, especially Lebanon, and on maritime security; Tasnim said it sought guarantees, sanctions relief and release of frozen assets within 30 days, with nuclear issues left for later. Trump wrote that he had read it and 'TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!', and Brent rose about 4% to $105.45 on Monday morning.
Lebanon's Health Ministry said Israeli attacks directly targeted two emergency response centres in the Bint Jbeil district, killing a paramedic in Qalawiya and another in Tibnin and wounding five. It said 2,846 people had been killed since March 2, including 552 since the ceasefire began on April 16; the UN relief chief said the next day that Israel carried out more than 100 strikes on Lebanon in 24 hours.
Qatar's Defense Ministry said a drone hit a cargo ship arriving from Abu Dhabi in Qatari waters, causing a limited fire and no injuries, and Qatar called for an investigation. Kuwait said hostile drones entered its airspace at dawn and the UAE said it intercepted two drones launched from Iran; the UAE blamed Iran, and nobody immediately claimed the attacks.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel built a clandestine outpost in Iraq's desert, with US knowledge, to support its air campaign against Iran, and used air strikes to keep away Iraqi troops who nearly found it in early March. Iraq's military said the reports stemmed from a March 5 clash with unidentified forces that had air cover, in which one Iraqi soldier was killed, and denied any unauthorized bases were present.
Putin said Russia was ready to repeat its 2015 removal of Iran's enriched uranium and that all sides had initially agreed, until the US insisted the material go only to US territory and Iran then hardened its position. He said Ali Larijani, who has since died, had proposed diluting it jointly with Russia inside Iran, and that the issue had reached an impasse.
Israeli attacks killed at least 18 people across Lebanon, including seven killed and 15 wounded in a strike on a building housing displaced families in Saksakiyeh, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Israel said it hit Hezbollah members in a structure used for military purposes and was reviewing reports of civilian harm.
Bahrain's Interior Ministry said it arrested 41 people linked to a group affiliated with the IRGC and that investigations were continuing. Bahrain, home to the US Fifth Fleet, has also stripped dozens of citizenship for allegedly backing Iran; rights groups accuse it of using the war to crack down on dissent.
Satellite images reviewed by AP showed a slick of about 27 square miles spreading from the west side of Kharg Island, with Windward estimating about 80,000 barrels spilled since it was first detected on Tuesday; the cause was unknown. Iran's Oil Terminals Company denied any leak on Sunday.
CENTCOM said a Navy F/A-18 fired precision munitions into the smokestacks of the empty tankers Sea Star III and Sevda to stop them entering an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman, after US forces disabled a third Iranian-flagged tanker on Wednesday. The IRGC navy warned that any attack on Iranian tankers would be answered with a strike on a US base.
Israeli air attacks killed at least 31 people across southern Lebanon on Friday, including five in Toura and a civil defence worker, Lebanon's National News Agency reported, one of the deadliest days since March 2. The Health Ministry put the overall toll at 2,759 dead and 8,512 wounded.
Iran's military said naval commandos boarded the Ocean Koi in the Gulf of Oman for trying to 'disrupt' Iranian oil exports and escorted it to Iran's southern coast. MarineTraffic data showed the tanker empty, and it had been sanctioned by the US under an earlier name as part of Iran's own shadow fleet.
The UAE Defense Ministry said it engaged two ballistic missiles and three drones launched from Iran, and debris moderately wounded three people. It said it has engaged 551 ballistic missiles, 29 cruise missiles and 2,263 drones since the war began, and the government says 10 civilians have been killed in the UAE.
CENTCOM said Iran fired missiles and drones and sent small boats at the destroyers Truxtun, Rafael Peralta and Mason as they transited the strait, none were hit, and US 'self-defense strikes' hit missile and drone launch sites and command nodes; US officials said Bandar Abbas and Qeshm were targeted. Iran said the US first attacked an Iranian tanker and struck coastal areas, and a local official said 10 sailors were wounded and five missing; Trump called the strikes a 'love tap' and said the ceasefire was still in effect.
Treasury sanctioned Iraqi Deputy Oil Minister Ali Maarij al-Bahadly, accusing him of helping pass Iranian oil off as Iraqi, along with four Iraqi companies and three leaders of the Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada and Asaib Ahl al-Haq militias. Iraq's oil ministry denied the accusations.
Israel struck a building in the Haret Hreik and Ghobeiri area of Beirut's southern suburbs, the first strike there in about a month, and Netanyahu and Katz said it targeted the commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Force. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that Radwan operations commander Malek Ballout was killed, and Israel's army said the next day it had killed the Radwan commander, whom it named as Ahmad Balut, and two other Hezbollah officials.
Axios and a Pakistani source quoted by Reuters said the sides were close to a one-page memorandum under which Iran would pause enrichment, the US would ease sanctions and release frozen funds, and both would lift Hormuz restrictions. Trump said Epic Fury would end if Iran agreed, but otherwise 'the bombing starts' at a higher intensity; Iran said it was reviewing the US proposal, and Brent fell more than 6% to about $103.
On his first trip to China since the war began, Araghchi met Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who said China was 'deeply distressed', that a resumption of hostilities was 'not acceptable' and that a comprehensive ceasefire was urgently needed; Tasnim quoted him calling the US-Israeli attacks 'illegitimate'. China's Foreign Ministry also urged a quick response to calls for safe passage through Hormuz.
Trump said that at the request of Pakistan and other countries, and because 'Great Progress' had been made toward a final agreement with Iran, the operation to move ships through Hormuz would be paused briefly while the blockade stayed 'in full force'. Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif welcomed the decision.
UKMTO said a cargo vessel was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz area; two US officials told CBS the CMA CGM San Antonio was hit by a possible land-attack cruise missile, injuring several Filipino crew. CMA CGM confirmed the attack, the injuries and damage to the ship.
The UAE Defense Ministry said its air defenses were again intercepting ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones launched from Iran. Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters said its forces had carried out no missile or drone operations against the UAE and warned against any action from Emirati soil, while the Foreign Ministry said Iran's actions were aimed 'exclusively' at the US.
Hegseth called Project Freedom 'separate and distinct' from the war and said 'right now, the ceasefire certainly holds', while Gen. Dan Caine said Iran had attacked US forces more than 10 times and fired on commercial ships nine times since April 8, below the threshold for resuming major combat. Rubio said that evening that Operation Epic Fury was 'concluded'.
US Ambassador Mike Waltz said Washington, Bahrain and Gulf allies were drafting a Security Council resolution requiring Iran to stop attacking ships, laying mines and charging tolls, and to disclose where mines are. The draft, obtained by AP on Tuesday, threatens sanctions or other measures if Iran does not comply.
The UAE Defense Ministry said it engaged 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles and four drones from Iran, the first attack on the country since the ceasefire; a drone started a fire at the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone and three Indian nationals were hurt. Oman said a workers' building in Musandam was hit and two people wounded, without naming the source, and the UAE said it reserves the right to respond.
Iran's army said it fired cruise missile, rocket and drone 'warning shots' near US destroyers approaching the strait, and CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper said Iran had launched cruise missiles, drones and small boats at protected ships and that the US destroyed six boats. Iranian media said US forces had fired on civilian cargo boats, killing five people, and Trump warned Iran would be 'blown off the face of the Earth' if it attacked US ships.
CENTCOM said Navy destroyers had crossed into the Gulf and two US-flagged merchant vessels had transited the strait, after a US-led center set up an 'enhanced security area' south of the usual lanes and warned of unmapped mines. The IRGC called the claim 'complete lies'; Maersk later said the US-flagged Alliance Fairfax had left the Gulf under US military escort.
The UAE said two Iranian drones targeted an ADNOC-affiliated tanker transiting the strait, with no injuries, and called it IRGC 'piracy'. The same day an explosion and fire hit the South Korean-operated bulk carrier HMM Namu with 24 crew aboard; Trump blamed Iran, Iran denied involvement, and Seoul later said two unidentified objects struck its stern.