Summary of the day so far<\/p>\n
Israel struck the southern suburbs of Beirut earlier today despite its ceasefire agreement with Lebanon. The Lebanon health ministry says this attack killed two people and wounded 20 others.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military later said it identified missiles launched from Iran toward the state of Israel in an apparent retaliation. It was the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April. The Israeli military warned of a second barrage of missiles fired from Iran soon after the first.<\/p>\n
The Iranian missiles came shortly after Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei warned in a post on X that Tehran will give a \u201cpainful\u201d response to Israel\u2019s attack on Beirut\u2019s Dahiyeh southern suburb, after the Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah<\/a> infrastructure in the area.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, issued a threat to US bases and assets in the region, claiming that the latest military action turned them into \u201clegitimate targets.\u201d<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the Israeli military must stop its attacks on Lebanon and warned that if Israel escalates its offensives in Lebanon or responds to Iran\u2019s actions, it will face \u201cmore crushing and regretful blows.\u201d<\/p>\n Donald Trump told Fox News when asked about the incoming Iranian missiles that \u201cIt\u2019s certainly not going to help negotiations.\u201d He added: \u201cWhat I would suggest to Iran: You\u2019ve shot your missiles, that\u2019s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal.\u201d When asked about Israel striking Beirut earlier today, Trump replied: \u201cI\u2019m not happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.30 EDT<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Donald Trump has told Benjamin Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iran\u2019s missile attack and to allow more time for diplomacy, Axios is reporting.<\/p>\n The news site<\/a> quotes a senior US official as saying the US president told the Israeli prime minister on a call to hold off on because \u201cwe are close to doing something good in terms of a deal\u201d.<\/p>\n Netanyahu pushed back but ultimately \u201cpseudo agreed\u201d to stand down, according to the unnamed official.<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s call was calmer than last week\u2019s heated exchange<\/a> and Trump did not raise his voice at Netanyahu, Axios quotes the official as saying, adding:<\/p>\n double quotation markWe think the president bought a little bit of time. He is pretty adamant that we are close to a deal with Iran. I don\u2019t think anything is imminent in terms of an Israeli strike.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.06 EDT<\/p>\n The US embassy in Jerusalem will be shut on Monday because of \u201cthe current security situation in Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n The embassy said in a security alert posted on X<\/a> that its branch office in Tel Aviv would also be closed and directed all American government employees and their families to \u201cshelter in place\u201d until further notice.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Oil prices jump after Iran strikes at Israel<\/p>\n Oil prices have climbed more than 3% amid the escalation in the Middle East war.<\/p>\n In early trading on Monday after the weekend, the price of Brent crude \u2013 the international benchmark \u2013 rose 3.29% to $96.15 a barrel.<\/p>\n Its US equivalent, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), was up 3.25% to $93.48 a barrel.<\/p>\n Iran fired missiles at Israel<\/a> in apparent retaliation after Israel hit Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs earlier in the day, with the Iranian barrage the first since the fragile truce took effect in early April.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.09 EDT<\/p>\n Trump says Netanyahu will have to accept US deal with Iran because ‘I call the shots’ \u2013 report<\/p>\n Donald Trump has said Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have no choice but to accept whatever deal the US negotiates with Iran because \u201cI call the shots\u201d, according to a report.<\/p>\n \u201cHe won\u2019t have any choice,\u201d the Financial Times<\/a> quoted Trump as saying. \u201cI call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn\u2019t call the shots.\u201d<\/p>\n The US president was speaking shortly after Iran launched missiles at Israel in the most serious escalation of the war since the April ceasefire.<\/p>\n Trump has reportedly said he will tell Netanhayu not to strike back against Iran so as not to jeopardise a possible peace deal with Tehran.<\/p>\n Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump at talks in Florida in December. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters<\/p>\n Trump told the Financial Times that Iran\u2019s strikes had not changed his desire to conclude the US-Iran negotiations.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not going to have any impact on the deal,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n double quotation markWe\u2019ll see how it ends up. But they [the missile strikes on Israel] were attacks that did not kick at all. It\u2019s one of those things that\u2019s been going for 3,000 years, or 47 years, depending on how you count.\u201d<\/p>\n He did not, however, sound upbeat about the prospects of an imminent deal, saying in the interview: \u201cI think the deal is going on. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked what would happen if any such deal failed \u201con its merits\u201d, Trump told the FT he would consider a commando raid on Iran:<\/p>\n double quotation markIt means [one of] two things. Number one, it would mean that possibly we would go in and take care of the rest of the place that we didn\u2019t take care of militarily. Or it would just mean that we would keep the blockade on Iran because the blockade has been probably more powerful than any attack that was ever made on that country.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.53 EDT<\/p>\n Tehran suspends flights at international airport – reports<\/p>\n Tehran\u2019s international airport has suspended all incoming flights after Iran\u2019s missile strikes on Israel, according to local media.<\/p>\n \u201cThe civil aviation authority announced the suspension of all flights bound for the airport until further notice,\u201d said the Iranian news agency Mehr said, cited by AFP.<\/p>\n It is the latest closure for Khomeini international airport, which is one of two serving the Iranian capital and re-opened only in April after being shut for weeks over the Middle East war.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.22 EDT<\/p>\n The Israeli government\u2019s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said it is closing all crossings into Gaza after the missile attack by Iran.<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing the missile attacks launched by Iran against the State of Israel, a number of necessary security measures have been implemented, including the closure of the crossings into the Gaza Strip, among them the Kerem Shalom Crossing and the Rafah Crossing, until further notice,\u201d a statement<\/a> posted on social media said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Iran\u2019s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi discussed the latest events in the region on Sunday night with his counterparts in Britain, France, and Turkey, as well as with Qatar\u2019s leader and Pakistani mediators.<\/p>\n The separate conversations focused on Iran\u2019s response to Israel\u2019s \u201crepeated violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon\u201d, his ministry said in a brief statement to AFP.<\/p>\n The telephone calls, reported by the IRNA news agency citing the Iranian foreign ministry, came as Iran launched salvoes of missiles at Israel<\/a> after an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs.<\/p>\n Araghchi spoke to Qatar\u2019s prime minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the French, British and Turkish foreign ministers, and members of the Pakistani team attempting to mediate an agreement between Tehran and Washington to end the Middle East war.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Summary of the day so far<\/p>\n Israel struck the southern suburbs of Beirut earlier today despite its ceasefire agreement with Lebanon. The Lebanon health ministry says this attack killed two people and wounded 20 others.<\/p>\n The Israeli military later said it identified missiles launched from Iran toward the state of Israel in an apparent retaliation. It was the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April. The Israeli military warned of a second barrage of missiles fired from Iran soon after the first.<\/p>\n The Iranian missiles came shortly after Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei warned in a post on X that Tehran will give a \u201cpainful\u201d response to Israel\u2019s attack on Beirut\u2019s Dahiyeh southern suburb, after the Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah<\/a> infrastructure in the area.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, issued a threat to US bases and assets in the region, claiming that the latest military action turned them into \u201clegitimate targets.\u201d<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the Israeli military must stop its attacks on Lebanon and warned that if Israel escalates its offensives in Lebanon or responds to Iran\u2019s actions, it will face \u201cmore crushing and regretful blows.\u201d<\/p>\n Donald Trump told Fox News when asked about the incoming Iranian missiles that \u201cIt\u2019s certainly not going to help negotiations.\u201d He added: \u201cWhat I would suggest to Iran: You\u2019ve shot your missiles, that\u2019s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal.\u201d When asked about Israel striking Beirut earlier today, Trump replied: \u201cI\u2019m not happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.30 EDT<\/p>\n The Israeli military vowed on Sunday to press ahead with its military campaign in Lebanon and said it would step up operations against Hezbollah<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe (Iranian) regime is attempting to establish a new equation through direct attacks on Israeli territory in response to IDF operations in Dahiyeh,\u201d military spokesman brigadier general Effie Defrin said, in a televised statement.<\/p>\n \u201cWe struck in Dahiyeh in response to Hezbollah\u2019s relentless attacks on the communities of northern Israel. The IDF will continue to operate throughout Lebanon<\/a> and will intensify its actions against the Hezbollah terrorist organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Iranian terrorist regime has made a grave mistake by once again choosing the path of terror,\u201d Defrin said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Barak Ravid, correspondent for Axios, said Trump told him during a phone call Sunday: \u201cThe Iranian missile fire didn\u2019t hit anyone. I hope Israel<\/a> doesn\u2019t respond. If Bibi attacks them back, it\u2019ll just drag on like it has for the past 47 years, or the past 3,000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re very close to a final deal with Iran. It\u2019ll be a good deal. I don\u2019t want it to blow up because of what\u2019s happening now,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n He also said: \u201cI\u2019m about to call Bibi right now and tell him not to respond. Both of them have already done their part. Israel had its strike and Iran had its strike. We don\u2019t need another one.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Iran closed the airspace over the west of the country on Sunday after launching a salvo of missiles towards Israel in response to its latest strike on Lebanon<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cDue to safety and security assessments… the western part of the country\u2019s airspace was declared closed until further notice,\u201d said Majid Akhavan, the spokesman for the National Civil Aviation Organisation, in a statement carried by the news agency IRNA.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The Syrian Civil Aviation Authority has announced a temporary closure of its airspace for 12 hours, suspending operations at Damascus International Airport amid escalating tensions between Iran and Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Iraq has also temporarily closed its airspace and suspended air navigation, civil aviation officials told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Iran\u2019s military central command said Sunday that Israel\u2019s latest strike on the southern Beirut suburbs had \u201ccrossed all red lines\u201d, demanding a halt to its campaign in Lebanon<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Israeli army must stop its attacks on southern Lebanon and the suburbs, and if it expands its attacks to that region or responds to Iran\u2019s action, it will face more devastating and regrettable blows,\u201d said general Ali Abdollahi, the head of the Khatam al-Anbiya command, without directly mentioning missile salvos that Israel<\/a> said it was intercepting.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Trump tells Iran: ‘You’ve shot your missiles … get back to the table’<\/p>\n Trey Yingst, a correspondent for Fox News, says he spoke<\/a> with Trump following the reports of Iranian missiles launched at Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I would suggest to Iran: You\u2019ve shot your missiles, that\u2019s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s certainly not going to help negotiations,\u201d Trump told Fox News when told about the incoming Iranian missiles<\/p>\n When asked about Israel<\/a> striking Beirut earlier today, he replied: \u201cI\u2019m not happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.12 EDT<\/p>\n Mohsen Rezaei, the military adviser to Iran\u2019s supreme leader, has posted on social media about the missiles launched towards Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran had repeatedly declared that it would not tolerate violations of the ceasefire or aggression against Lebanon,\u201d he wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cTonight, the aggressors received their response. This response is a warning for them to cease their villainy; every new action will be met with a more crushing response and heavier costs.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The Israel<\/a> military says it has intercepted all missiles fired by Iran so far, multiple outlets are reporting.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Axios reported that Donald Trump has been briefed on the situation as Israel<\/a> reports a second wave of missiles fired from Iran.<\/p>\n Barak Ravid, a correspondent for Axios, said in an X post<\/a> that an Israeli official told him Israel plans to retaliate to the Iranian attack.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say Israel must stop Lebanon attack<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said the Israeli military must stop its attacks on Lebanon<\/a> and warned that if Israel escalates its offensives in Lebanon or responds to Iran\u2019s actions, it will face \u201cmore crushing and regretful blows\u201d, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n