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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the military would neither withdraw its forces nor suspend operations in the country, where troops entered in March alongside Israel’s wider conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, which helped establish Hezbollah in 1982, said Israel must, at a minimum, withdraw to positions it held before the war began.<\/p>\n
More moderate shooting<\/p>\n
Along with Lebanon, residents of Gaza, northern Israel and Kuwait have all come under fire this week, despite U.S.-brokered cease-fires that Trump said on Wednesday involved “shooting in a more moderate manner,” rather than a complete halt to fighting.<\/p>\n
Iranian and American forces traded attacks in the Gulf on Wednesday in one of the most intense bouts of fighting since early April, when a cease-fire halted large-scale hostilities.<\/p>\n
Iranian forces struck Kuwait’s airport, killing one person and injuring more than 60 others, authorities said, while the U.S. military launched strikes near the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
In Oman, an alleged drone attack forced the suspension of oil loading at the Mina al Fahal terminal after an explosion, two people familiar with the matter said Friday.<\/p>\n
A fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies pass through the strait under normal conditions, but it has been largely closed since the war began three months ago.<\/p>\n
Iranian oil exports have fallen to their lowest level in six years, shipping data show, but global oil prices fell about 3% on hopes that a cease-fire in Lebanon could help Washington and Tehran find a diplomatic off-ramp from the conflict.<\/p>\n
There has been little evidence of diplomatic progress, though Trump has repeatedly declared since late March that a deal is close.<\/p>\n
Trump, under pressure at home to lower fuel prices ahead of November congressional elections, received a rare rebuke from the House of Representatives on Wednesday when it voted to block him from continuing the war. The largely symbolic measure is unlikely to become law.<\/p>\n
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Thursday that Iran’s enemies had already been defeated on the battlefield and were now seeking to sow internal divisions.<\/p>\n
Khamenei has not been seen in public since succeeding his father, who was killed in an airstrike at the start of the war.<\/p>\n
Tehran wants access to billions of dollars in oil revenue, waivers on sanctions targeting crude exports, the lifting of U.S. restrictions on its ports and leverage over the strait.<\/p>\n
Trump, who has said his top priority is preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, told reporters Washington did not need a deal with Iran to secure its enriched uranium.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think they could stop us if we wanted, but there’s no reason to,” he said in the Oval Office. “It’s entombed.”<\/p>\n
Iran says its atomic program is for peaceful purposes. The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Thursday that it found Iran’s nuclear program largely unchanged despite three months of war.<\/p>\n
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