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Main PointsIran has rejected<\/a> a 15-point US proposal for ending the war in the Middle East. Iran imposed five conditions of its own, including a conclusion of the war on all fronts, payment of war damages and sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.Irish consumers face months of rising prices as the conflict squeezes oil supplies and fuels inflation, ESRI and Central Bank warn<\/a>.Key Reads<\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 2 minutes ago<\/p>\n

The conflict is causing a rise in tourist cancellations and a dive in new bookings in Cyprus and to \u200ca lesser extent other countries whose economies rely heavily on summer visitors.<\/p>\n

Daily cancellation \u200brates for short-term rentals in Cyprus shot up from around 15 per cent before the conflict to as high as 100 per cent in the days after, according to data from US-based \u2060AirDNA, which tracks such bookings. <\/p>\n

That figure has since dropped, but remained around 45 per cent by March 21st. Greece and Turkey saw \u200cslight rises \u200cin \u200bcancellation rates too.<\/p>\n

Cyprus\u2019 Hoteliers Association has seen a near 40 per cent drop in March bookings and a similar reduction in April, the association\u2019s director general Christos Angelides said. <\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 16 minutes ago<\/p>\n

US president Donald Trump has also posted on Truth Social to again criticise Nato countries and say the US does not need its help with the war in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO NATIONS HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP WITH THE LUNATIC NATION, NOW MILITARILY DECIMATED, OF IRAN,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cTHE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO, BUT \u2018NEVER FORGET\u2019 THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 43 minutes ago<\/p>\n

Israel says it has killed the commander of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)\u2019s Navy, Alireza Tangsiri.<\/p>\n

Defence Minister Israel Katz said Tangsiri was \u201cdirectly responsible for the terrorist act of bombing and blocking the Strait of Hormuz\u201d, and has been \u201cblown up\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from Katz\u2019s office, Tangsiri was killed in a \u201cprecise and deadly\u201d attack and a number of other \u201csenior Navy command officials\u201d have also been killed.<\/p>\n

Iran has not yet commented.<\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 48 minutes ago<\/p>\n

US president Donald Trump has \u200csaid Iranian negotiators were \u201cbegging\u201d for \u200ba deal despite what he described as \u200bhaving been \u201cmilitarily obliterated,\u201d \u2060rejecting Tehran\u2019s public stance \u200cthat \u200cit \u200bis only reviewing Washington\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranian negotiators are very different and \u201cstrange\u201d,\u201d he \u200csaid in \u2060a Truth Social post on \u200cThursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are \u201cbegging\u201d us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only \u201clooking at our proposal.\u201d WRONG!!! They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won\u2019t be pretty!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"USUS resident Donald Trump said Iranian negotiators were \u201cbegging\u201d for \u200ba deal. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP Footage from the scene captures the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the Ras al Ain neighbourhood in the Lebanese city of Baalbek. Video: Sally Hayden <\/p>\n

Cyprus \u200cwill cut \u200bVAT on electricity bills, \u200breduce fuel \u2060taxes and \u200csubsidise \u200ctourism industry \u200bsalaries \u2060amid \u200ba fear \u200bof \u200ccost increases \u200bdue to \u2060the \u2060Iran conflict, its \u200bpresident Nikos Christodoulides \u200chas said.<\/p>\n

\"Cyprus'Cyprus’ president Nikos Christodoulides (left) and Croatia’s prime minister Andrej Plenkovic at an EU Summit in Brussels this month. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 2 hours ago<\/p>\n

Eurozone banks have limited direct exposure \u200cto the war in the Middle East, but the conflict could still generate systemic \u200cstress given interconnected vulnerabilities, European Central Bank vice president Luis de Guindos said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Financial markets \u200bhave come under stress in recent weeks from the impact of the US and Israeli war on Iran, but the selloff outside the Middle East has been \u200blimited, even as some assets remain overvalued.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpillovers to the euro area financial sector have \u2060so far remained contained,\u201d de Guindos said in a speech. <\/p>\n

\u201cDirect bank exposures \u200cto \u200cthe \u200bregion are limited, and the banking system is well positioned with strong profitability and robust capital and liquidity \u2060buffers.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Guindos argued that \u200beven market infrastructure operators, like central \u200bcounterparties whose services include energy markets, have managed margin requirements effectively, despite the \u200cvolatility.<\/p>\n

Still, there was a broader \u200brisk, given interconnections in the financial system, said de Guindos, whose \u2060roles at the ECB include monitoring \u2060financial stability.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmid \u200balready elevated global uncertainty, this conflict could trigger the unravelling of interconnected vulnerabilities and cause systemic stress,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"LuisLuis de Guindos, vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB), at a news conference in Frankfurt this month. Photograph: Alex Kraus\/Bloomberg <\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 3 hours ago<\/p>\n

US president Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will hold their highly anticipated summit in Beijing between May 14th and 15th, following a delay that brought fresh uncertainty to relations between the world\u2019s largest economies.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the rescheduled dates on Wednesday and said Xi would visit Washington at a date later this year.<\/p>\n

Trump was due to visit China later this month but the US president postponed the meeting to remain in Washington and focus his attention on the war with Iran. The war brought fresh strains to US-China ties, even as the two economies sought to navigate lingering issues from a trade detente struck last year and simmering tensions over Taiwan. Iran is a major trading partner for China, the world\u2019s biggest crude importer.<\/p>\n

Leavitt said the administration has \u201calways estimated approximately four-to-six weeks\u201d for the conflict when asked if the new dates indicated Trump would look to wind down the war by that point. She sidestepped a question about whether concluding the war was a precondition for rescheduling the summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a discussion about the rescheduling of the meeting between the president and president Xi. President Xi understood that it\u2019s very important for the president to be here throughout these combat operations right now. He understood, obviously, the request to postpone and accepted it, which is why we have new dates on the books,\u201d Leavitt said.<\/p>\n

\"USUS president Donald Trump speaks at the swearing-in ceremony for secretary of homeland security Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington this week. Photograph: Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 3 hours ago<\/p>\n

Iran has rejected a 15-point US proposal for ending the war in the Middle East. In doing so, it imposed five conditions of its own, including a conclusion of the war on all fronts, payment of war damages and sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

An Iranian security official said Tehran is determined to continue defending itself and will deliver \u201csevere blows\u201d until its demands are met. He said the conditions presented by Washington are \u201cexcessive and detached\u201d from what he described as the US failure on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s response came after reports Washington had transferred to Iran, via Pakistan, a plan to end the fighting.<\/p>\n

Three Israeli cabinet sources said \u2060Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu\u2019s security cabinet had been briefed on the US proposal. They said \u200bits terms included removing Iran\u2019s stocks of highly enriched uranium, halting enrichment, curbing its ballistic missile \u200bprogramme and ending funding for regional allies.<\/p>\n

\"RescueRescue workers at a residential building hit in an overnight strike in Tabriz, Iran. Photograph: Matin Hashemi\/AP <\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 3 hours ago<\/p>\n

Iran and the United States hardened their positions as diplomacy aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the war in the Middle East appeared to be faltering on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Tehran moved to formalise its control over the crucial Strait of Hormuz while Washington prepared for the arrival of US combat forces in the region that could be used on the ground in the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

Iran is instituting a \u201cde facto \u2018toll booth\u2019 regime\u201d, industry experts say, with some ships paying in Chinese yuan to pass through the strait, where 20 per cent of all traded oil and natural gas is transported in peacetime.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a strike group anchored by the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli drew closer to the Middle East with some 2,500 Marines.<\/p>\n

\"AA man surveys the damage to a car following a projectile strike in the Arab-Israeli city of Kfar Qassem on Thursday. Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich\/AFP via Getty Images \"IsraeliIsraeli rescuers and security personnel survey the site struck by a projectile in the Arab-Israeli city of Kfar Qassem on Thursday. Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 3 hours ago<\/p>\n

The outlook in the Gulf looks deeply uncertain, with the US suggesting it is seeking a peace deal with Iran, while at the same time moving thousands of troops and equipment to the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president\u2019s preference is always peace. There does not need to be any more death and destruction,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told a press conference on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if Iran fails to accept the reality of the current moment, if they fail to understand that they have been defeated militarily and will continue to be, president Trump will ensure they are hit harder than they have ever been hit before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her comments came after Iran apparently rejected the US proposals for ending the war, responding with five conditions of its own, including a conclusion of the war on all fronts, payment of war damages and sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

\"AA man surveys the damage at the site struck by a projectile in the Arab-Israeli city of Kfar Qassem on Thursday. Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich\/AFP via Getty Images \"RescueRescue workers at a residential building hit in an overnight strike in Tabriz, Iran. Photograph: Matin Hashemi\/AP \"AA thick plume of smoke rises from an oil storage facility hit by a US-Israeli strike in Tehran. Photograph: Vahid Salemi\/AP <\/p>\n

Sarah Burns – 3 hours ago<\/p>\n

Consumers are facing months of rising prices as the conflict in the Gulf squeezes oil supplies and fuels inflation, two heavyweight forecasters have warned.<\/p>\n

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), an independent think tank, and the Central Bank both issued sharp warnings of inflationary pressures across the economy as higher oil prices begin to bite.<\/p>\n

Their warnings come as Iran poured scorn on US claims that it was considering peace proposals, though Tehran stopped short of rejecting efforts out of hand. In Washington, the White House said that president Donald Trump favoured a peace deal but was also willing to \u201cunleash hell\u201d against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main PointsIran has rejected a 15-point US proposal for ending the war in the Middle East. Iran imposed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10748,969,5485,42,11829,3410,150432,14396,43,40,38,41,39,90],"class_list":["post-366117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-binyamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy-costs","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-iran-conflict","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}