US-Iran ‘war’ live updates: Iran cleric says Trump should apologize for Khameinei killing
Iran news LIVE updates: A senior Iranian cleric, Ali Shirazi, has said that US President Donald Trump must apologise over the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on February 28. Ali Shirazi, head of the ideological-political organisation of Iran’s police, said Trump “must apologise to the Iranian people and admit before the world that killing our leader was a mistake.” He added that hostility toward Israel is “a Quranic and unchangeable principle” and warned that Iran’s armed forces are prepared to deliver a strong response to any enemy action….Read More
Iran took a dig at US President Donald Trump on Thursday after he made a comment calling India and China ‘hellhole.’ The Iranian embassy in Hyderabad, in an X post, said “China and India are the cradles of Civilization. In fact, the hellhole is where its war-criminal president threatened to decimate the civilisation in Iran.”
Trump late Wednesday posted on social media saying, “A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from China or India or some other hellhole on the planet.”
Israel attacks Lebanon after ceasefire announcement
Hours after US President Donald Trump announced a three-week extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, Israeli warplanes carried out new strikes on southern Lebanon on Friday, Al Jazeera reported citing local media.
Two raids targeted the town of Touline, while a separate strike hit Khirbet Selm, the Lebanon 24 news outlet said.
US deploys third carrier near middle east
US military on Thursday confirmed that USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, bringing the number of the massive American warships operating in the region to three.
The Bush was sailing “in the Indian Ocean in the US Central Command area of responsibility, April 23,” the military command responsible for the Middle East said in a post on X. The post also had an image of the carrier with its deck packed with warplanes.
A second carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, was operating in the Red Sea on Thursday, while a third carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, is also in the region.
The deployment of the third aircraft carrier to the Middle East comes during a more than two-week ceasefire that paused the devastating US-Israeli air campaign against Iran that was launched in late February.
Israel Lebanon extends ceasefire
US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between by three weeks after talks at the White House.
Trump said the meeting between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the United States, the second in the past week, went “very well,” but during an Oval Office gathering he acknowledged that “they do have Hezbollah to think about.”
Trump rules out using nuclear weapons on Iran
Trump on Thursday said that he would not use a nuclear weapon in the war against Iran. Talking to the reporters at White House he said, “Why would I use a nuclear weapon? We’ve totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it.”
US President also added that nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody. When asked how long he was willing to wait for a long-term peace deal with Iran, Trump said, “Don’t rush me.”
Trump says ‘could knock out’ Iran’s weaponry
Trump said Iran might have loaded up their weaponry “a little bit” during the two-week ceasefire, but added that the U.S. military could knock that out in about one day.
“Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone, their anti-aircraft is gone …maybe they loaded up a little bit during the two-week hiatus, but we’ll knock that out about one day, if they did,” Trump added.
Meanwhile, prospective peace talks in Pakistan were hanging in the balance, with no sign of a return to diplomacy to end a standoff in the Strait of Hormuz. Second round of talks could not take off as Iran refused to attend the negotiations in Pakistan over its demands, including insistence on nuclear rights.
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Apr 24, 2026 3:35:21 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport to resume international flights from Saturday
Iran news LIVE updates: Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport will resume international flights from Saturday, AFP cited the ISNA news agency as reporting.
This comes after Iran reopened its airspace during the ceasefire with US and Israel. The first flights to resume will be to Istanbul and Muscat.
Officials announced last week that Mashhad airport, which serves the country’s second city in the far northeast, would reopen on Monday.
Apr 24, 2026 3:30:38 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Kuwait said two drones from Iraq hit its border posts, no casualties
Iran news LIVE updates: Kuwait’s army said Friday that two drones launched from Iraq had targeted its two northern border posts, Reuters news agency reported.
However, while the drones caused damage at the border posts, no casualties were reported in the incident.
Apr 24, 2026 2:58:31 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Ukraine’s Zelensky to visit Saudi Arabia, hold talks with Crown Prince
Iran news LIVE updates: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Saudi Arabia on Friday and hold talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, AFP reported citing a senior official from Kyiv as saying.
Zelensky has forged close ties with several Gulf countries amid the US-Israel war with Iran, striking defence deals to share Kyiv’s expertise in downing drones. Kyiv had also earlier dispatched dozens of military specialists and drone interceptors to several countries in the region, where they were used to shoot down incoming Iranian drones.
Apr 24, 2026 2:41:04 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Amid ceasefire extension, Israel destroys houses in southern Lebanon town
Iran news LIVE updates: The Israeli army has destroyed houses in the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, located north of the Israeli border, Al Jazeera reported.
This comes even as US President Donald Trump announced a three-week extension to the fragile truce in Lebanon.
Apr 24, 2026 2:36:52 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: China rejects Trump’s claims that intercepted Iranian ship was a “gift”
Iran news LIVE updates: China’s foreign ministry on Friday rejected the claim made by US President Donald Trump that the Iranian ship intercepted by American military was “gift from China.”
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters that the accusation was not based on facts, Al Jazeera reported.
Apr 24, 2026 2:34:31 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Iran FM speaks to Pak officials, discusses ‘issues related to ceasefire’
Iran news LIVE updates: Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi held a phone call with Pakistani officials, inluding Deputy Prime Minister and minister of foreign affairs Ishaq Dar, and Field Marshal Asim Munir.
The officials discussed “regional developments and issues related to the ceasefire”, Al Jazeera cited Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency as reporting.
Apr 24, 2026 2:30:24 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Second tanker arrives at Iraq’s Basra offshore terminal since Hormuz closure
Iran news LIVE updates: Tanker Helga arrived at Iraq’s Basra offshore terminal to load 2 million barrels of crude on Friday, Reuters news agency reported citing sources.
Helga is only the second tanker to reach the Basra terminal since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Apr 24, 2026 2:22:51 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: EU leaders seek to do more to ‘de-escalate’ in Middle East
Iran news LIVE updates: European leaders vowed on Friday to do more to de-escalate conflicts in the Middle East, as they prepared for discussions with regional counterparts from Egypt, Lebanon and Syria in Cyprus.
“Europe must do even more,” French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters in Nicosia before heading into talks with fellow European Union leaders.
Apr 24, 2026 2:12:59 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: EU preps ‘blueprint’ for mutual aid clause as Trump doubts NATO’s commitment
Iran news LIVE updates: The EU will lay out a “blueprint” for how its mutual assistance clause works if a country is attacked, Cyprus’ leader said Friday, as President Donald Trump casts doubt on the US commitment to NATO.
Attention has increased on Article 42.7 of the EU’s governing treaty — meant to help any member state that comes under attack, as Trump has deepened questions over whether Washington would help defend NATO allies.
Apr 24, 2026 2:01:20 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: China rejects Trump accusation that intercepted Iran ship was ‘gift from China’
Iran news LIVE updates: China’s foreign ministry on Friday rejected an accusation by US President Donald Trump that an Iranian-flagged cargo ship intercepted by US forces was a “gift from China.”
The US said it fired on and seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to evade its blockade of Iranian ports. Iran’s military said the ship had been travelling from China and vowed retaliation against what it called “armed piracy by the US military.”
Apr 24, 2026 1:44:52 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Iran war to keep gas market tight for 2 more years, IEA says
Iran news LIVE updates: The global natural gas market is set to remain tight well beyond this year, as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and damage to regional infrastructure continue to disrupt supply, according to the International Energy Agency.
In a report published Friday, the IEA said the war has delayed a long-anticipated glut in liquefied natural gas, even as new capacity comes online. The impact of that expansion, driven largely by the US, is being pushed back “by at least two years.”
Apr 24, 2026 1:27:35 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Pope urges US and Iran to return to peace talks
Iran news LIVE updates: Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war Thursday and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home from his trip to Africa.
He said the question wasn’t whether the Iran regime should change or not. “The question should be about how to promote the values we believe in without the deaths of so many innocents.”
Apr 24, 2026 1:12:26 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Mideast’s swift return to stability ‘in everyone’s interest,’ says Macron
Iran news LIVE updates: French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday it was in “everyone’s interest” for stability to return to the Middle East, as the spillover of the Iran war rattles the global economy.
“It is in everyone’s interest for stability to return as soon as possible and for the world’s economies to be reassured,” Macron said as he arrived at an European Union summit in Nicosia, where talks with Middle East leaders are also scheduled.
Apr 24, 2026 1:05:20 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Iran cleric demands apology from Trump over Khamenei’s killing
Iran news LIVE updates: Months after the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a senior Iranian cleric reportedly wants Donald Trump to apologise over the killing. Ali Shirazi, head of the ideological-political organisation of Iran’s police, said Trump “must apologise to the Iranian people and admit before the world that killing our leader was a mistake,” Iran International reported.
The cleric also said warned that Iran’s armed forces are ready to deliver a strong response to any enemy action. He said that hostility toward Israel is “a Quranic and unchangeable principle.”
Apr 24, 2026 12:59:29 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Talks with Iran should include nuclear experts, EU foreign chief says
Iran news LIVE updates: Talks with Iran should include nuclear experts otherwise “we will end up with a more dangerous Iran”, EU’s foreign chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday.
“If the talks are only about the nuclear and there are no nuclear experts around the table, then we will end up with an agreement that is weaker than the JCPOA was,” Kallas said, speaking ahead of an informal summit of EU leaders in Cyprus.
Apr 24, 2026 12:40:57 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: IEA sees ‘tight’ liquefied natural gas markets through 2027
Iran news LIVE updates: Liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies are likely to remain strained through the end of 2027 due to disruptions and infrastructure damage from the US-Iran war, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
“The combined effect of short-term supply losses and slower capacity growth could result in a cumulative loss of around 120 billion cubic metres of LNG supply between 2026 and 2030,” the Paris-based agency said in a new report.
Apr 24, 2026 12:04:06 PM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Pentagon email floats suspending Spain from NATO over Iran rift, says report
Iran news LIVE updates: An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing the U.S. position on Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, a U.S. official told Reuters.
President Donald Trump has harshly criticized NATO allies for not sending their navies to help open the Strait of Hormuz, which was closed to global shipping following the start of the air war on February 28.
Apr 24, 2026 11:41:25 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Iran war hits Asia’s polyester suppliers to global fast fashion
Iran news LIVE updates: A surge in fossil fuel prices since the Iran war is squeezing polyester suppliers and garment makers across India and Bangladesh, threatening to raise costs for fast-fashion retailers like Zara and H&M.
Filatex, one of India’s biggest polyester yarn producers, is paying nearly 30% more for the petroleum-derived feedstocks – purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and monoethylene glycol (MEG) – that it needs to make yarn, as Chinese suppliers raise prices and Middle East supply is disrupted, managing director Madhu Sudhan Bhageria told Reuters.
Apr 24, 2026 11:23:36 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Oil rises fifth day as Iran talks deadlock adds to uncertainty
Iran news LIVE updates: Oil climbed for a fifth day, its longest string of gains since January, as uncertainty over talks between the US and Iran threatened to further delay flows from the Persian Gulf.
Brent was near $105 a barrel, headed for a weekly gain of about 17%, while West Texas Intermediate traded around $96.
(Bloomberg)
Apr 24, 2026 11:07:46 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Israel, Lebanon extend ceasefire as Trump seeks ‘best deal’ with Iran
Iran news LIVE updates: Israel and Lebanon extended their ceasefire for three weeks at a meeting at the White House brokered by President Donald Trump, who said he was prepared to wait for “the best deal” to end his conflict with Iran.
Fighting between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon has been one of a number of sticking points to resolving the wider eight-week regional conflict, along with Iran’s nuclear ambitions and control of the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
Apr 24, 2026 10:53:37 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Iran takes dig at Trump after his ‘hellhole remark’ on India
Iran news LIVE updates: Iran took a dig at Trump after his ‘hellhole’ comment on India and China. Trump late Wednesday posted on social media saying, “A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from China or India or some other hellhole on the planet.”
Apr 24, 2026 10:48:26 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Mojtaba Khamenei remains in hiding, severely injured
Iran news LIVE updates: A severely injured Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to become the Supreme Leader of Iran after the February 28 US-Israeli strikes assassinated him, is reportedly not very accessible now and remains in hiding since the attack.
He had surgery on one hand and is slowly regaining function, said a New York Times report on Iran’s new power structure, with interviews with six senior Iranian officials, two former officials, two members of the Revolutionary Guards, a senior cleric familiar with the inner workings of the system and three individuals who know the Supreme Leader well.
Apr 24, 2026 10:39:31 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Pentagon email outlines options to punish NATO allies failing to support US, says report
Iran news LIVE updates: An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support US operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing the U.S. position on Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, a US official told Reuters.
The policy options are detailed in a note expressing frustration at some allies’ perceived reluctance or refusal to grant the United States access, basing and overflight rights, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the email.
Apr 24, 2026 10:22:30 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Israeli military says ‘several rockets’ fired towards north
Iran news LIVE updates: The Israeli military reportedly said “several rockets” were launched towards Shluhot, in the north of the country, hours after US President Donald Trump announced a three-week extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, Aljazeera reported.
It also said the launcher that fired the rockets was struck within minutes, and a second launcher – “loaded and ready to launch” – was also hit by Israeli forces, report said.
Apr 24, 2026 10:13:33 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: West Asia crisis, Strait of Hormuz blockade to be focus of Heads of Mission conference
Iran news LIVE updates: On-going war in West Asia, its economic, political, and diplomatic impact on the Gulf countries, changing equations with US and China will be the focus of the three-day Heads of Mission conference in New Delhi, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi joining the deliberations on April 30. The conference, which will be attended by all top Indian envoys to other countries, will be held in New Delhi on April 28-30.
Day one of the HOM conference will be led by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, who will open the deliberations by giving a broad overview of India and the world with focus on the crisis in West Asia
Apr 24, 2026 10:05:37 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Trump says US in no rush but ‘clock is ticking’ for Iran
Iran news LIVE updates: President Donald Trump said Thursday the United States is in no rush to end the war with Iran but “the clock is ticking” for the Islamic Republic, as a third aircraft carrier arrived in the Middle East.
Iranian media reported blasts over the capital Tehran, a first since an increasingly tenuous ceasefire in the Middle East war came into effect two weeks ago.
Apr 24, 2026 9:53:22 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: US-sanctioned supertanker with Iranian oil tries Hormuz transit, says report
Iran news LIVE updates: A US-sanctioned supertanker laden with Iranian oil appeared to be attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, with traffic through the waterway otherwise at a virtual standstill, Bloomberg reported.
The Yuri, carrying 2 million barrels of crude loaded from Kharg Island, re-appeared on ship-tracking platforms Kpler and Vortexa off Sirri Island earlier this week, after having stopped signaling its location for days. The tanker then began heading toward Hormuz late Thursday, and has just sailed past Larak Island.
Apr 24, 2026 9:35:56 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: US envoy compares Hezbollah to a kid throwing rocks
Iran news LIVE updates: Mike Huckabee, the US envoy to Israel, who was on hand for the White House talks said on Thursday, “The people of Lebanon, the people of Israel are neighbors and they want to get along.”
“They can get along,” he said. “But it’s like neighbors who have a rough little kid living in the neighborhood who keeps throwing rocks at everybody’s window. And if the kid will quit throwing rocks, the neighbors can get along and start actually working together.”
Apr 24, 2026 9:22:45 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Who are Iran’s ‘mosquito fleet’ targeted by Trump in ‘shoot and kill’ order
Iran news LIVE updates: Trump in a latest order said “I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be.”
The target — Iran’s so-called “mosquito fleet,” has been known to US officials for years and weapons testers have regularly evaluated new warships’ ability to counter it. During tensions in 2020, Trump instructed the Navy to target “Iranian gunboats” harassing US vessels.
Apr 24, 2026 9:12:10 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: Trump says leaders of Lebanon and Israel could meet in next 3 weeks
Iran news LIVE updates: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the leaders of Lebanon and Israel could meet at the White House during the next three weeks, the period for which a ceasefire between the two countries has been extended.
Trump also told reporters that Iran will have to cut funding for Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Apr 24, 2026 9:06:55 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: US puts $10 million bounty on Iranian-backed Shiite militia
Iran news LIVE updates: The United States has placed a $10 million bounty on the leader of an Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Iraq, Associated Press reported.
The US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program issued a notice it sought the leader of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada. It said Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji led the group, whose members “killed Iraqi civilians and attacked U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq.”
Apr 24, 2026 9:01:40 AM IST
Iran news LIVE updates: ‘Can’t bring IRGC terrorists,’ says US on Iran’s World Cup entry
Iran news LIVE updates: United States signalled on Thursday that Iranian players will be allowed to participate in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, even as it drew a firm line on who can accompany them.
Secretary of state Marco Rubio said there is no objection to the team’s presence, but individuals linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) would not be permitted entry. “Nothing from the US has told them they can’t come,” Rubio told reporters.
Apr 24, 2026 8:56:42 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iran dismisses Trump’s claims of division in leadership
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iranian officials cited in state media dismissed claims by Trump of divisions in Iran’s leadership, and Khamenei said in a post on X that “enemy” media operations were aiming to undermine unity and national security.
“Due to the strange unity created among compatriots, a fracture has occurred in the enemy. With the practical gratitude for this blessing, cohesion has become even greater and more steel-like, and the enemies will become more wretched and diminished,” he said in the post.
Apr 24, 2026 8:50:18 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Trump says Iran may have reloaded during two-week truce
US Iran war LIVE updates: – US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran may have loaded up their weaponry “a little bit” during the two-week ceasefire, but added that the US military can knock that out in about one day.
In another statement Trump ruled out use of nuclear weapons on Iran stating that US has decimated Iran through conventional means.
Apr 24, 2026 8:42:17 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: What Trump said on use of nuclear weapons on Iran?
US Iran war LIVE updates: US President Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out striking Iran with a nuclear weapon, after his previous threats to completely destroy Iranian civilization.
“No, I wouldn’t use it,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Why would I use a nuclear weapon when we’ve, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it?” he asked. Trump also added that nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody.
Apr 24, 2026 8:37:47 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iran’s central bank confirms Hormuz toll revenue deposited in cash
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iran’s central bank has confirmed that revenue from newly introduced transit fees for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz has been successfully deposited, putting to rest speculation over the form of payment, Iranian state media reported.
The clarification follows earlier media claims suggesting that Iran was collecting transit fees in digital currencies such as Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
Apr 24, 2026 8:33:50 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: ‘We have complete control,’ Trump says on blockade against Iran
US Iran war LIVE updates: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the United States has full control over its blockade measures against Iran, calling them effective.
Speaking to the reporters in White House, Trump said, “That is very top secret… What we have done with the blockade is amazing, and nobody gets through. Nobody wants to get through; nobody’s trying… We have complete control, he was quoted as saying.
Apr 24, 2026 8:31:35 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Trump says it’s a ‘must’ for Iran to end funding for Hezbollah
US Iran war LIVE updates: US President Donal Trump reiterated that the US continues to demand that Iran stop it’s backing of proxy groups in the Mideast, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, as part of any deal between Washington and Tehran to end the U.S. war on Iran.
“Yeah, they’ll have to cut that,” Trump said to a reporter’s question about aiding the militant group. “That’s a must.”
Apr 24, 2026 8:23:57 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: US Iran tensions grow over Strait of Hormuz
US Iran war LIVE updates: US and Iran tensions grew over the Strait of Hormuz with both sides maintaining their blockades of the critical waterway. US President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the US Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the strait, while the military said it intercepted two oil supertankers that tried to evade its effort to prevent passage to and from Iran’s ports.
Later, an Iranian ship carrying rice safely passed through the Sea of Oman and reached Iran after being escorted by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported.
Apr 24, 2026 8:13:17 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: ‘Don’t rush me,’ says Trump on timeline for ending conflict with Iran
US Iran war LIVE updates: US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) said he would not set any deadline for ending the conflict with Iran, stating “don’t rush me” while claiming that Iran’s military capabilities have been severely weakened.
He asserted that Iran is in a weakened position militarily and economically, and said he is in no hurry to conclude talks, adding that Tehran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
Apr 24, 2026 8:01:30 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: ‘Pak talks with US was strategic mistake,’ says Iranian lawmaker
US Iran war LIVE updates: A member of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Mahmoud Nabavian, has said that the negotiation talks held with the US in Pakistan was a mistake.
Nabavian posted a snippet of his interview to SNN TV, where he noted that discussing its nuclear issue in Pakistan was a ‘strategic mistake’. In a post on X, he said, “Putting the nuclear issue on the negotiation table in Pakistan was a strategic mistake.”
Apr 24, 2026 7:48:14 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Italy dismisses replacing Iran at the World Cup after suggestion by US official
US Iran war LIVE updates: Italian sports officials say four-time champion Italy is not interested in replacing Iran at the upcoming World Cup following a suggestion to that effect by a Trump administration official.
The Financial Times reported that Paolo Zampolli, the US special envoy for global partnerships, had suggested the swap to President Donald Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
Apr 24, 2026 7:37:23 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Oil prices rise with no progress on Iran
US Iran war LIVE updates: Crude oil rose for a fifth straight day as concerns grew that the US and Iran were making little progress toward resuming talks on de-escalation, keeping the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed.
Brent, the global crude benchmark, rose 1.5% to above $106.50 a barrel, Bloomberg reported.
Apr 24, 2026 7:31:03 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iran fast-boat swarms adds to Hormuz threats on shipping
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iran’s use of a swarm of small, fast boats to seize two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz could undermine suggestions US forces have disabled its naval threat and reveals the challenges facing reopening one of the world’s most important oil export routes.
US President Donald Trump on Monday acknowledged that while Iran’s conventional navy had been largely destroyed, its “fast-attack ships” had not been considered much of a threat.
Apr 24, 2026 7:21:01 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Lebanon-Israel ceasefire extended by three weeks after Oval Office meeting
US Iran war LIVE updates: Lebanon and Israel extended their ceasefire for three weeks after a high-level meeting at the White House, US President Donald Trump said on Thursday.
Trump hosted Israel’s ambassador to Washington Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese ambassador to the U.S. Nada Moawad in the Oval Office for a second round of U.S.-facilitated talks, a day after Israeli strikes killed at least five people including a journalist. “The Meeting went very well! The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Apr 24, 2026 7:11:03 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Mojtaba in touch with Iranian regime via letters, says report
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has been somewhat missing from the public sphere ever since he took charge as the country’s top leader. Mojtaba is consciously as he does not want to appear vulnerable or sound weak in his first public address, the New York Times reported quoting an Iranian official.
According to the report, to avoid being tracked down by US and Israel, messages to Mojtaba are handwritten, sealed in envelopes and passed on via a human chain from one trusted courier to the next, who travel on highways and back roads, in cars and on motorcycles until they reach his hide-out.
Apr 24, 2026 7:06:09 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: US says Iran allowed to play in World Cup but people with ties to IRGC won’t be allowed
US Iran war LIVE updates: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday Washington had no objections to Iranian players participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup but he added the players will not be allowed to bring with them people with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“Nothing from the U.S. has told them they can’t come,” Rubio told reporters. President Donald Trump also said his administration “would not want to affect the athletes” in comments he made at the White House.
Apr 24, 2026 6:54:48 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iran seizes vessel in Hormuz, defying US naval superiority
US Iran war LIVE updates: Iran flaunted its tightened grip over the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday with a video of commandos in a speedboat storming a huge cargo ship, after the collapse of peace talks that Washington had hoped would open one of the world’s most important shipping corridors.
US President Donald Trump dismissed the threat posed by Iran’s “little wise-guy ships” and told reporters that he believed Tehran wanted to make a deal but that its leadership was in turmoil.
Apr 24, 2026 6:53:33 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: Trump orders to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian small boats choking Hormuz
US Iran war LIVE updates: President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, announcing the move Thursday a day after Iran again displayed its ability to thwart traffic through the channel.
“I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be … putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump posted, adding that U.S. minesweepers “are clearing the Strait right now.”
Apr 24, 2026 6:39:38 AM IST
US Iran war LIVE updates: USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier deployed in Mideast region
US Iran war LIVE updates: The USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, the US military said Thursday, bringing the number of the massive American warships operating in the region to three.
The Bush was sailing “in the Indian Ocean in the US Central Command area of responsibility, April 23,” the military command responsible for the Middle East said in a post on X that included an image of the carrier with its deck packed with warplanes.
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