Iran war updates: Trump instructs negotiators ‘not to rush into a deal’

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• US President Donald Trump stated that he has directed his negotiation team “not to rush into a deal” with Tehran because “time is on our side”, noting that the US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz “will remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed”.
• Nine individuals have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Bahrain for their alleged involvement in what officials labelled “hostile and terrorist acts” in collaboration with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
• An Israeli double-tap strike on a building in Lebanon’s al-Duwayr resulted in an unconfirmed number of civilian casualties, the country’s National News Agency said.
• The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that Israeli air strikes have killed 3,151 people and wounded 9,571 others since early March.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he held a conversation with Trump late on Saturday in which both leaders agreed that any potential agreement with Tehran must involve “dismantling Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites”.
• Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem has urged Lebanese authorities to “reverse the decisions it has taken to criminalise the resistance”.

The Wafa news agency reports that a 15-year-old Palestinian was shot during an Israeli raid on the town.

Security sources told the news agency that Israeli forces stormed the town and fired live ammunition at residents, hitting the child in the leg, after which he was taken to hospital for treatment.

For nearly 20 years, Mario Habib has run a barbershop in Beirut’s Furn el-Chebbak neighbourhood – through wars, economic collapse and political crises in Lebanon.

Mario says many customers now come not just for haircuts, but for relief, conversation and a sense of normal life in a country where, as he puts it, “normal life itself became the dream”.

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Oil prices continue to decline as continued uncertainty over a deal between Washington and Tehran fuels growing fears that prolonged restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will damage global economic growth.

Brent crude futures fell $4.64, or 4.48 percent, to $98.90 a barrel by 22:03 GMT.

Similarly, US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude dropped to $92.18 a barrel, down $4.42, or 4.58 percent.

What a difference 24 hours makes. There was a lot of optimism that potentially the deal could even be signed on Sunday, just about right now, but now we’re hearing more of a cautious tone from White House officials, saying that there are still a few areas that need to be negotiated.

They’re not casting doubt on that they are going to get there, but they are casting doubt on it being anytime very soon; they said it might be days.

As we’ve seen throughout this conflict, we’ll hear something from the Trump administration about something they believed to be settled, and then Iranians will say, “That’s not at all where we’re at.”

That continues, granted with much higher stakes because the world was starting to look at what the US president said was going to happen, which was the Strait of Hormuz was going to be reopened.

There’s been an internal intelligence report in the US that leaked to the major newspapers that said Iran can basically sustain its current state for three to four months. Whether or not the global economy can withstand these oil prices for that long without tipping into a deeper recession remains to be seen.

The president is sending the message that he believes the US is holding all the cards; Iran is sending the message that, no, they don’t.

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 28 separate operations on Sunday, targeting Israeli troops and positions operating within southern Lebanon.

In a statement, the group outlined its extensive use of rocket salvoes, artillery shells and attack drones to strike Israeli forces. The operations heavily focused on the town of Biyyada, where Hezbollah targeted Israeli troop clusters, forces stationed inside houses, technical equipment, and a newly established command centre multiple times.

Similar attacks using drones, rockets, and artillery targeted Israeli troop clusters and military vehicles around the Deir Siryan River, as well as positions in Rashaf, al-Quzah, Naqoura and a newly established site at Nimr al-Jamel.

The US is expressing deep regret that states party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) failed to reach a consensus on a final document at the conclusion of the 2026 Review Conference, specifically criticising the “inability of some NPT States Parties to take Iran’s threat to global nonproliferation seriously”.

The US State Department said that the failure to achieve a consensus was all the more disappointing given “Iran’s continued noncompliance with its NPT-required safeguards agreement with the IAEA” and its “escalating nuclear activities for which there is no credible civilian justification”.

Washington emphasised that for the NPT Review Conference to uphold its founding mandate, “States Parties cannot turn a blind eye to Iran’s noncompliance”. It added that violators cannot be allowed to “undermine the enforcement and accountability mechanisms at the core of the NPT”.

Bahrain has sentenced nine people to life in prison for carrying out what authorities describe as “hostile and terrorist acts” in cooperation with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Two other defendants were also jailed for three years each after being convicted of collaborating with the IRGC in what prosecutors described as “terrorist and espionage” activities, state media reported on Sunday.

The convictions were handed down during an intensified crackdown by Bahraini authorities on individuals accused of ties to Tehran. The crackdown followed a wave of Iranian strikes on Bahrain after the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran in late February. Iran began striking all of its Gulf neighbours in response, saying it was targeting American interests, including military bases.

Prosecutors said some of the defendants photographed vital and strategic sites in Bahrain on behalf of the IRGC. Others were accused of facilitating the transfer of funds from Iran to Bahrain, including through cryptocurrency transactions, to finance the operations. Authorities also alleged that individuals inside the country were recruited to support some of the plans.

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Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that three Palestinian fishermen are injured following gunfire from Israeli naval vessels in the sea off Gaza City.

Since the genocidal war on Gaza began, the local fishing industry, which long served as a crucial cornerstone for both livelihood and sustenance, has been completely devastated.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports that Israel bombed a building in al-Duwayr at around 10:20pm local time (19:20GMT), and then, 30 minutes later, attacked the same location, causing an unconfirmed number of civilian casualties.

Today, the town of al-Duwayr was subjected to three attacks by Israeli jets and four attacks from drones, which resulted in the death of one person and the wounding of eight others, NNA said. One person is still trapped under rubble.

Livestock traders in Pakistan say the war on Iran has hurt their sales ahead of Eid al-Adha.

Rising fuel prices have driven up transport and food costs for the traders, pushing animal prices higher and hurting sales at one of Islamabad’s biggest cattle markets.

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As we’ve been reporting, Donald Trump and his administration have faced pushback from both Republican and Democratic politicians over the last 24 hours.

Speaking with CNN, US Republican Senator Thom Tillis questioned why Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth and other officials claimed to have “obliterated” Iran’s capabilities nearly three months ago.

“Now we’re talking about a posture where we may accept the nuclear material may remain in Iran,” Tillis said. “How does that make sense at all?”

“There are a lot of things that need to be explained.”

His comments followed those of Senator Roger Wicker yesterday, who said the rumoured 60-day ceasefire agreement” would be a disaster”.

Hanan al-Hams was among the 3,000 Palestinians from Gaza scheduled to travel for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in 2024. But her lifelong dream to perform Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, was shattered by Israel’s war on Gaza, launched on October 7, 2023.

“I lost my son, my home was destroyed, and now I am deprived of the journey I waited decades for,” al-Hams, 65, told Al Jazeera, sitting inside a makeshift tent pitched over the ruins of her home in northern Gaza.

Entry and exit from Gaza were decided by Israel even before the war began. A partial opening in February of the Rafah crossing – the only connection to the outside world –  has allowed passage only for patients who need medical treatments abroad.

For any other travel requirement, including pilgrimage, study, and work, getting out of the enclave is near to impossible amid an Israeli land, air and sea blockade in place since 2007.

Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people remain displaced, living in tent camps and destroyed houses as Israeli forces have turned the besieged enclave into rubble, killing at least 72,775 Palestinians during the ongoing genocidal war that has drawn condemnation from across the world.

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Qatar’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani,  and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, have discussed ongoing negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

Their phone call also addressed “coordination of efforts to support mediation aimed at de-escalation, contributing to enhancing security and stability in the region”, according to the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A Qatari delegation recently travelled to Tehran to support Pakistan’s mediation efforts.

While the world is waiting to see whether the US and Iran have managed to reach a deal and put an end to a war that has killed thousands and rattled energy markets, violence committed by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank shows no sign of abating.

Here’s a roundup of what happened there today, according to reports collected by Wafa news agency:

• A Palestinian child was wounded by Israeli gunfire during a military raid into the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.
• Israeli forces stormed areas in the town of Dura, south of Hebron, closed shops, and detained a number of young men while firing tear gas canisters. Several residents suffered from suffocation.
• Settlers cut down more than 40 olive trees east of Salfit city. The owner, Nash’at Shtayyeh, said the trees had been planted decades ago and were his only source of income.
• The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has warned of a dangerous and rapidly escalating outbreak of scabies spreading amongst Palestinian inmates in sections of several major Israeli prisons, according to dozens of lawyers who visited the detention centres in April and May.
• Settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, herded their sheep in an area west of Bethlehem, causing damage to Palestinian-owned grapevines and olive trees.
• Israeli forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, demolished the one-storey home of citizen Abdullah Abdul Ghani Thabet in a town west of Ramallah. According to the monthly report of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Israeli authorities carried out 37 demolitions in April, targeting 78 structures.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports that two young men were killed this afternoon when the Israeli army bombed the town of Sir al-Gharbiya, in the Nabatieh district.

NNA named the two as Ali Hussein Maatouk and Hassan Kahil, and said they were in a house that was targeted by Israeli warplanes.

One person was also wounded in the attack, the report said

President Donald Trump was able to purge his most vocal critics within the Republican Party, as Americans voted for the congressional candidates who will run in November’s midterm elections.

One of the most prominent politicians to be unseated was Representative Thomas Massie, who pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the Democratic Party partially released a report about performance that noted “a persistent inability or unwillingness to listen to all voters”.

Host Steve Clemons asks former Trump aide Hogan Gidley and Matt Duss – former adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders – about the challenges facing both parties.

Watch the latest episode of Al Jazeera’s The Bottom Line here:

France has banned Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering its territory, citing his “unspeakable” behaviour of taunting Gaza flotilla activists who were arrested by Israeli police forces.

Ben-Gvir had posted footage on a social media platform showing himself gloating as activists from the flotilla knelt on the floor, blindfolded, with their hands bound, at the port of Ashdod.

“We cannot tolerate that French nationals can be threatened, intimidated or brutalised in this way – all the more so by a public official,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said yesterday.

So which other Israeli figures and entities have been barred, penalised or sanctioned in recent years?

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