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ITV News correspondents have the latest as the war in the Middle East enters its second week.
Trump accuses Starmer of trying to ‘join’ the Iran war ‘after we’ve already won’.
Iran said the US’ demand for surrender is a ‘dream that they should take to their grave’ and apologised for attacks on surrounding countries.
The apology was aired amid attacks on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Meanwhile, the UK’s aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been placed on advanced readiness.
Emirates said it would resume operations at Dubai airport after temporarily halting them following what appeared to be a drone attack in the area.
Protesters calling for the US and Israel to end their strikes on Iran marched through London, while counter-demonstrators were also seen waving Israeli flags
UK government plans to charter a commercial flight out of the UAE, which would leave Dubai early next week, subject to the situation on the ground.
A series of major explosions rocked Tehran late Saturday as Israel launched new strikes and Donald Trump warned the US would hit Iran “very hard”.
Video footage taken by the Associated Press showed a Tehran oil facility engulfed in flames, in what appeared to be the first time a civil industrial facility has been targeted in the war.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it struck “several fuel storage complexes” in what it called a “significant strike”.
The latest attack came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the next phase of the week-old conflict.
Earlier in the day, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian apologised for attacks on neighbouring Gulf states, saying it would not target them “unless attacked first”.
Explosions were heard in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates hours later, and hard-liners asserted that Tehran’s war strategy would not change.
One person was killed in Dubai after debris from an aerial interception fell onto a vehicle. Emirates briefly suspended flights to and from the city after several blasts were heard.
Watch: Smoke rises into the sky as explosion heard near Dubai International Airport
Incoming missiles from Iran had people heading to bomb shelters across Israel, and loud booms sounded in Jerusalem. There were no immediate reports of casualties by Israel’s emergency services.
Meanwhile, Israel says it used more than 80 fighter jets to carry out its “broad-scale wave of strikes” on Iran in the early hours of Saturday.
One week ago, Israel and the US launched what they described as “pre-emptive” strikes against a Tehran government they viewed as intent on acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran denies this, and some legal experts have said the attack violates international law.
Iran has insisted it will not surrender, with Pezeshkian dismissing Trump’s demand for the Islamic Republic’s unconditional surrender as “a dream they should take to their grave”.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, Trump, in an apparent reference to Pezeshkian’s comments, said Iran “has apologised and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors (sic), and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore.”
He continued: “This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries.”
Trump arrives at Dover Air Force Base, where he is privately meeting with the families of the six US soldiers killed early in the conflict. Credit: AP
Trump was in Delaware on Saturday to witness the return of the six US soldiers’ bodies killed in the war.
Shortly after leaving Dover Air Force Base, Trump told reporters he wanted to “pick a president” for Iran that would not be “leading the country into war”.
“The US does not want to come back every five years”, he added.
He also took a swipe at Sir Keir Starmer in a Truth social post, accusing the prime minister of trying to “join” the Iran war “after we’ve already won”.
UK puts one of its aircraft carriers on ‘advanced preparedness’
It comes after four American bombers landed in the UK and the US started using British bases for “specific defensive operations” on Saturday.
The US president was referring to reports that the UK was preparing an aircraft carrier in response to the Middle East crisis.
The Ministry of Defence said it was increasing the preparedness of HMS Prince of Wales and reducing the time it would take to set sail.
No decisions have been taken, but ITV News understands HMS Prince of Wales is now at five days’ notice to sail, down from ten.
Sir Keir Starmer has allowed ‘defensive’ US strikes on Iranian missile sites from UK bases Credit: PA
A Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesperson said: “We have been bolstering our UK military presence in the Middle East since January, and we have already deployed capabilities to protect British people and our allies in the region, including Typhoons, F-35 jets, air defence systems and an extra 400 personnel into Cyprus.
“Since the strikes began, we’ve had British jets in the sky shooting down drowns and have sent additional assets to the region to further reinforce our air defences, including more Typhoons and Wildcat helicopters with drone busting missiles.
“HMS Prince of Wales has always been on very high readiness and we are increasing the preparedness of the carrier, reducing the time it would take to set sail for any deployment.”
The MoD said the US had started using British bases for “specific defensive operations” to prevent Iran from firing missiles into the region.
A Merlin helicopter is also being sent to the region to support air surveillance, and RAF Typhoons and F-35 jets are continuing air operations over Jordan, Qatar and Cyprus.
A Rockwell B-1 Lancer, a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force arrives at RAF Fairford on Friday. Credit: PA
Three B-1 Lancer bombers landed at an air force base in Gloucestershire earlier on Saturday, following the arrival of one on Friday.
Armed forces chief Sir Richard Knighton said he would expect the US to launch missions from the Gloucestershire base “within the next few days”.
Britain has been criticised by allies over its response to the crisis, particularly over the defence of Cyprus, where a UK base was struck by a drone earlier this week.
Starmer has defended his decision not to permit the US to use British bases in the opening assault against the Tehran regime, suggesting it could have been unlawful and arguing the government must keep a “cool head”.
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The prime minister agreed on Sunday to allow the US to strike Iran defensively from RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has warned that strikes were “about to surge dramatically”, referring to “more fighter squadrons, more defensive capabilities and more bomber pulses more frequently”.
The fighting has killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, and more than 200 people in Lebanon, where Israel has resumed strikes on Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah since the latest round of conflict in the Middle East began.
Around a dozen people have been killed in Israel, according to officials in those countries, while six US troops were killed in an attack on Kuwait.
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