In a preview clip of a NBC interview, the US president<\/a> also claimed he knows \u201cexactly\u201d how many missiles Iran has left, but refused to give a figure.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m moving very fast, I\u2019m into three months,\u201d he said. \u201cVietnam lasted 19 years, I\u2019m into my third month. We have totally destroyed their military.\u201d<\/p>\n He added Iran has \u201cmaybe 21 or 22 per cent\u201d of their missiles left, saying it is \u201ca lot of missiles, but not what it was when we first attacked\u201d.<\/p>\n It comes after the US military said it downed six Iranian ballistic missiles launched towards its Gulf allies, while a seventh missile failed to reach its target.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted a US airbase in Kuwait and the US Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet in Bahrain, according to Iranian state media.<\/p>\n The attack came on Friday just hours after the US military also shot down four Iranian attack drones headed towards the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, with US Central Command saying they \u201cposed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/a>Tehran says US will be responsible for any consequences of its ‘illegal actions’ <\/p>\n Tehran has said the US will be responsible for any consequences that emerge from its \u201cillegal actions\u201d in the current conflict.<\/p>\n On Saturday, the country\u2019s foreign ministry said \u201crepeated\u201d ceasefire violations show the country has no intention of reducing tensions.<\/p>\n It comes after the US military said it downed six Iranian ballistic missiles launched towards its Gulf allies, while a seventh missile failed to reach its target.<\/p>\n The US later said it had attacked Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island along the strait \u201cto defend against further attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n Nicole Wootton-Cane6 June 2026 14:18<\/p>\n <\/a>Recap: Two men guilty of stabbing Iranian journalist in London<\/p>\n Two Romanian men have been convicted in a London court over the stabbing of a journalist from a Persian-language television station, an attack prosecutors say was carried out at the behest of authorities in Tehran.<\/p>\n A jury at Woolwich Crown Court found Nandito Badea, 21, and George Stana, 25, guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n Pouria Zeraati, a presenter at London-based Iran International, was stabbed in the leg in March 2024 outside his home in the Wimbledon area of London.<\/p>\n He recovered from the attack and returned to work.<\/p>\n Police said former professional soccer player Badea and another man attacked Zeraati before fleeing in a getaway car driven by Stana and then flying out of the country from Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n Badea and Stana were arrested in Romania in December 2024 and extradited to the UK.<\/p>\n The third suspect, David Andrei, is the subject of criminal proceedings in Romania.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was a targeted and violent attack and it was the prosecution\u2019s case during the trial that it was carried out on behalf of the Iranian regime,\u201d said Chief Superintendent Kris Wright of Counter Terrorism Policing London.<\/p>\n The jury\u2019s verdict does not conclude that the attack was conducted on behalf of Iran, though prosecutors said the judge may determine that when the defendants are sentenced on July 3.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s senior diplomat in the UK has denied Tehran was behind the attack.<\/p>\n Nicole Wootton-Cane6 June 2026 14:00<\/p>\n <\/a>Trump\u2019s \u2018crazy\u2019 call dents Netanyahu\u2019s image at key time of Israel\u2019s election<\/p>\n Benjamin Netanyahu has long portrayed himself to the Israeli public as being uniquely adept in dealing with Donald Trump, capable of winning and sustaining the president’s backing.<\/p>\n But an acrimonious phone call this week where the president called the prime minister “f***ing crazy”, first leaked to the media and later publicly confirmed by Trump himself, laid bare the strains that have at times emerged between the two leaders.<\/p>\n Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledged the call was among the most heated the premier has had with Trump. One of the officials said the leak had damaged Netanyahu politically ahead of this year’s national election.<\/p>\n Nicole Wootton-Cane6 June 2026 13:30<\/p>\n <\/a>Peace deal hinges on US agreeing to $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets, official says<\/p>\n A potential peace deal between the United States and Iran is dependent on the Trump administration agreeing to release $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets, a top Iranian official told CNN on Friday.<\/p>\n Mohsen Rezaei, military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, told CNN \u201cthe ball is in Trump\u2019s court\u201d as he warned negotiations are in a \u201cdeadlock\u201d.<\/p>\n He said the release of assets would act as a trust-building measure that could open a path to peace for Tehran. <\/p>\n Nicole Wootton-Cane6 June 2026 13:00<\/p>\n <\/a>Pope Leo says his message of peace is welcomed by people not ‘shut off’ by ideology<\/p>\n Pope Leo said on Saturday \u2060that the world is crying “from its depths” for \u2060peace \u200bin \u2060a forceful speech opening \u2060a week-long tour \u200bof \u2060Spain and \u200cthe Canary Islands.<\/p>\n Leo, who \u200chas attracted the \u200cire of US President Donald Trump after criticizing the Iran war, said his message of peace is \u200cbeing welcomed \u200bby \u200cpeople not “shut \u2060off” by \u2060ideology. <\/p>\n “Today, the temptation to gain popularity by fanning the flames of polarization seems to have grown rather than diminished, and human dignity continues to be violated,” Leo said in a speech before King Felipe VI \u2060at the Royal Palace in Madrid.<\/p>\n “I invite everyone to set aside the divisive and \u200bpolarising narratives \u2060of your societal reality and history, so as to overcome sterile simplifications through the fruitful appreciation of complexity,” he added.<\/p>\n Technology was partly to blame for creating an environment which magnifies prejudices and weakens critical thinking, Leo said. The world was crying “from its depths \u2060for peace,” he said.<\/p>\n He drew on Spain’s history as an example of peaceful co-habitation between religions and cultures, making reference to how Christians, \u200bMuslims and \u2060Jews cooperated during medieval times to enhance human knowledge \u200cby translating Arabic texts into Latin, Spanish and Hebrew at the School of Translators in Toledo.<\/p>\n “Your own history suggests that a culture of encounter, not confrontation, is what fosters stability and prosperity. In reality, the message of peace, which at present unfortunately strikes some as na\u00efve and others as \u200cconfrontational, is welcomed by those who do not shut themselves off in preconceived ideologies, but \u200care rather open to the truth,” he said.<\/p>\n Nicole Wootton-Cane6 June 2026 12:30<\/p>\n <\/a>Iran says IAEA is politicising oversight of Tehran’s nuclear programme<\/p>\n Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said that the \u2060UN nuclear watchdog should avoid turning technical reports into “tools \u2060of political pressure” \u200bif \u2060it wanted to contribute \u2060to a diplomatic \u200bsolution.<\/p>\n He \u2060said that \u200cthe loss of the agency’s oversight \u200cat some facilities resulted \u200cfrom the attacks rather than a \u2060lack of cooperation by Iran, adding that the International Atomic Energy Agency was using the consequences \u200cof US and \u200bIsraeli strikes \u200con Iranian nuclear \u2060sites to create “ambiguity” \u2060about Tehran’s nuclear programme. <\/p>\n Nicole Wootton-Cane6 June 2026 12:00<\/p>\n <\/a>Trump says he is ‘moving fast’ on Iran but declines to say how many missiles are elft<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/a> has said he is \u201cmoving fast\u201d on Iran<\/a> and claimed its military is \u201ctotally destroyed\u201d – but declined to say how many missiles he believes Tehran has.<\/p>\n In a preview clip of an NBC interview, the US president<\/a> claimed he knows \u201cexactly\u201d how many missiles Iran has left, but refused to give a figure.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m moving very fast, I\u2019m into three months,\u201d he said. \u201cVietnam lasted 19 years, I\u2019m into my third month. We have totally destroyed their military.\u201d<\/p>\n He added Iran has \u201cmaybe 21 or 22 per cent\u201d of their missiles left, saying it is \u201ca lot of missiles, but not what it was when we first attacked\u201d.<\/p>\n When asked to give a ballpark figure, he declines.<\/p>\n Nicole Wootton-Cane6 June 2026 11:31<\/p>\n <\/a>Russia’s Sechin accuses US companies of benefitting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin has said US energy companies are benefitting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and accused Washington of trying to change the fundamental contours of the global energy markets to suit US interests.<\/p>\n Iran blockaded the Strait, the main route for about a fifth of world oil supplies and other vital goods including fertilisers, after the United States and \u2060Israel attacked Iran and killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah \u200bAli \u2060Khamenei in February. The US has blockaded Iranian ports.<\/p>\n The closues of the Strait has rattled global markets, sending oil prices to multi-year highs, stoking global inflation and undermining \u2060economic growth world-wide.<\/p>\n Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Mr Sechin, a long-standing ally \u200bof \u2060President Vladimir Putin, also said that the \u200cOPEC+ group of leading oil producers has lost some of its potential with the withdrawal of the United Arab Emirates from the alliance.<\/p>\n “The closure of the Strait of Hormuz \u200cis an attempt to reshape global energy market regulations to \u200cbenefit the United States. The measures taken to block the strait were aimed at Iran, but backfired on the entire world. The strategic risks were underestimated,” Mr Sechin said.<\/p>\n “The main beneficiaries, of course, were American companies, who gained non-competitive \u2060advantages and the ability to secure high-cost supplies,” he added.<\/p>\n He warned that following Strait of Hormuz closure, other major global routes, such as Malacca, Bad El Mandeb and Gibraltar straits could also be under the risk of disruption.<\/p>\n Nicole Wootton-Cane6 June 2026 11:00<\/p>\n![\"Mohsen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1805363610...jpeg\")
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Chief Executive of oil producer Rosneft Igor Sechin (Reuters)<\/p>\n
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