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President Donald Trump<\/a> said the Senate vote on war powers related to Iran<\/a> had made his job more difficult, but vowed that he would get it done \u201cone way or the other\u201d.<\/p>\n The US<\/a> Senate backed legislation directing Trump to halt US military action against Iran, the latest rebuke of the Republican president from an increasingly restive Congress.<\/p>\n The Senate voted 50-48 in favour of the war powers resolution, which passed the House of Representatives early this month, reflecting growing concern even among some of Trump’s Republicans \u2060about the unpopular conflict.<\/p>\n Trump, in a post on Truth Social<\/a>, said: \u201cSo, I have Iran on the ‘ropes,’ ready to go down for the fall, willing to give us practically anything.\u201d<\/p>\n For \u201cthe first time in decades” Iran was “respecting the hell out of the United States and its President, ME, and the US Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War Powers Act Vote\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n This comes as Iranian banks were hit by a cyber attack just days afterTrump<\/a> said that frozen funds would be returned to the Islamic Republic as part of their initial deal to end the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Rubio kicks off Middle East trip<\/p>\n US secretary of state Marco Rubio has begun a Middle East tour in earnest today, seeking to reassure Gulf allies who view concessions in president Donald Trump\u2019s Iran \u2060deal that include a proposed $300bn fund as too generous to a regional foe.<\/p>\n Rubio is undertaking his first high-level diplomatic mission on the agreement reached last week to end the four-month-old US-Israeli war with Iran.<\/p>\n Asked on arrival in Abu Dhabi if he planned to address allies’ disquiet with the accord, Rubio told \u2060reporters: “That most certainly will come up in these discussions.” <\/p>\n He \u200bsaid \u2060they would also discuss issues not covered by the memorandum of understanding.America’s top diplomat has been largely absent from Iran-related discussions in recent weeks, with vice president JD Vance instead leading a \u2060round of talks with Iranian counterparts over the weekend in Switzerland.<\/p>\n Rubio’s remarks during his swing through the \u200bregion will \u2060be closely scrutinised to see how the man \u200conce known as a hawkish critic of Iran frames a deal that many congressional Republicans argue amounts to capitulation. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 June 2026 06:40<\/p>\n <\/a>UN nuclear agency chief says inspectors will visit Iran<\/p>\n The head of the UN’s nuclear agency today signaled that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a key component in the interim deal between the United States and Iran to reach an end to the war.<\/p>\n International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Mariano Grossi made the comments in Tokyo.”Whether this happens the day after tomorrow or in one week or in 10 days, it’s important, but not essential,” Grossi told reporters. <\/p>\n “This is going to happen.”Iran and the US have disputed whether or not bombed enrichment sites would be inspected. That’s key for the deal, which calls for Iran’s stockpile of uranium to be “downblended” from highly enriched levels. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 June 2026 06:26<\/p>\n <\/a>Trump instructs DOJ to probe oil companies over higher gasoline prices<\/p>\n US president Donald Trump this morning said that he has instructed the \u2060Department of Justice to look into oil companies for not lowering \u2060pump prices \u200bin \u2060line with falling crude costs.<\/p>\n “The big \u2060Oil Companies are not \u200bdropping \u2060their price \u200cat the pump commensurate with the sharply lower \u200cprices they are \u200cpaying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like \u2060a rock! In other words, customers are being “gouged,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n “I have instructed the DOJ \u200cto immediately start \u200blooking into this. \u200cGasoline prices \u2060better start going \u2060down a lot faster than what \u200cI\u2019m \u200bseeing.\u201d <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 June 2026 06:13<\/p>\n <\/a>Qatar to resume normal LNG production ‘within a few weeks’<\/p>\n Qatar\u2019s \u200bprime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said the \u2060Gulf state would resume normal liquefied natural gas production \u201cwithin \u2060a \u200bfew weeks\u201d, \u2060the Financial Times reported.<\/p>\n Establishing a \u200bhotline between \u2060the US \u200cand Iran is essential to reopen \u200cthe Strait of \u200cHormuz, he told the FT \u2060in an interview.<\/p>\n Qatar Energy suspended LNG production after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran \u200con 28 February following \u200ca drone attack \u2060on its \u2060huge Ras Laffan plant. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 June 2026 05:54<\/p>\n <\/a>Downed US pilot saw Iran drones flying in \u2018jellyfish\u2019 formation<\/p>\n The US fighter pilot rescued by commandos after he was shot down by Iran in April has described how Iranian drones swarmed him in what appeared to be a \u201cjellyfish\u201d formation before he ejected from his plane, according to a report.<\/p>\n Iranian forces opened fire on the $31m F-15E Strike Eagle on 3 April, triggering a major search for the missing weapons-system officer, who held out in the mountains for hours before his dramatic rescue.<\/p>\n During a debriefing with intelligence officials, the pilot described seeing a unified and overwhelming drone formation resembling a jellyfish, sources familiar with the matter told CNN in a report published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 June 2026 05:40<\/p>\n <\/a>Four Korean vessels cross Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n At least four vessels operated by South Korean shippers exited the Strait of Hormuz to sail to their destinations, the South Korean maritime ministry said.<\/p>\n The ministry said that 18 of the 26 vessels that had been stranded since the start of the Middle East conflict were still in the Persian Gulf. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 June 2026 05:25<\/p>\n <\/a>Oil falls below $77 a barrel<\/p>\n Oil prices fell this morning, extending this week’s losses and trading near four-month lows hit in the previous session, on signs that more oil tankers stranded \u200bin the Gulf since the start of the Iran war are set to \u200cmove out of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n Brent crude futures were down 37 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at $76.71 a barrel and US West Texas Intermediate slipped 36 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $72.85 a barrel.<\/p>\n Both benchmarks declined nearly 1 per cent on Tuesday, touching their lowest levels since early March. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 June 2026 05:17<\/p>\n <\/a>Watch: Trump claims Americans are ‘demanding’ $80bn more for his war with IranTrump claims Americans are ‘demanding’ $80bn more for his war with Iran<\/p>\n Rachel Dobkin24 June 2026 05:00<\/p>\n![\"US](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2282425855...jpeg\")
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media upon arrival at Al-Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi on June 23, 2026 (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n