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Iran War Live Updates: Trump Disparages Allies for Rebuffing His Requests for Military Assistance
“We don’t need anybody,” the president declared, even as he said several countries had agreed to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The Israeli military escalated ground attacks against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
President Trump on Monday disparaged U.S. allies that he said had relied too long — and too expensively — on American defense, as several of those countries have declined to meet his call to send warships to escort merchant vessels in and out of the Persian Gulf.
“We don’t need anybody; we’re the strongest nation in the world,” Mr. Trump said. He suggested his request for assistance in reopening the Strait of Hormuz instead amounted to a loyalty test of America’s allies. “I’m almost doing it in some cases not because we need them but because I want to find out how they react,” he said.
Oil markets fell Monday, with international crude oil futures falling to $100.21 per barrel, down 2.8 percent for the day, but still up nearly 40 percent since the war began. WTI futures, the domestic oil benchmark, fell to $93.50 per barrel on Monday, down 5.3 percent for the day, but still up 40 percent since the war began.
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Stock prices rose on Monday, lifted by a drop in oil prices. The S&P 500 ended the day 1 percent higher, but still remains 2.6 percent lower since the beginning of the war with Iran.
The Israeli military is prepared for at least three more weeks of military operations and “even more if we need to,” said Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman. Those remarks, made in a briefing with reporters on Monday, echo the public messaging of Israeli government officials in recent days: to expect the war with Iran and Hezbollah to continue.
Major developments — March 16
The Israeli police said multiple sites in the old city of Jerusalem were hit by interceptor and missile fragments, following what Israel said was a missile barrage from Iran on Monday afternoon. Fragments fell in the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Compound and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, as well as in the Jewish Quarter, the police said. A spokesman for the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem said a fragment landed several hundred feet from the church. At least one person was injured, Magen David Adom, Israel’s rescue service, said.
Some Israeli schools reopened on Monday in areas the government has deemed relatively safe from missile and rocket attacks, with officials saying that many students were back in class for the first time since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began more than two weeks ago.
The reopenings mainly occurred in areas known as the periphery of Israel, far from its most populous cities, and excluding areas near the border with Lebanon, which are under attack in the conflict with Iran and the Iranian-backed militia, Hezbollah. Schools in the Negev desert, near the Gaza border, in settlements in the West Bank, and in some areas surrounding it were given the option by the government to reopen their doors.
Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a second statement today saying he would retain all the officials appointed by his slain father. The supreme leader, in addition to being a top religious and political figure, also serves as the commander in chief of the armed forces.
Trump returned to the topic of stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon with some of his strongest language yet. “You can’t let the most violent, vicious country in the last 50 years have a nuclear weapon, because the Middle East will be gone. Israel will go first without question,″ he said, “and they’ll certainly take a shot at us before we get our act together.” The statement was notable because Trump is considering a risky operation to send forces into Isfahan, a city of 2 million people in the center of the country, to recover 970 pounds of near-bomb-grade uranium.
President Trump’s remarks on Monday haven’t moved financial markets much. International oil futures are around $101 a barrel, down slightly for the day. U.S. oil futures are hovering below $95 a barrel. The S&P 500 is up 1 percent, recouping some of its losses from last week.
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“This is not Europe’s war, but Europe’s interests are directly at stake,” Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s top diplomat, said after meeting with foreign ministers from across the 27-nation bloc in Brussels on Monday. For now, she said, the European Union would not expand a maritime operation in the Middle East to help protect commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
Kallas had suggested that expanding Operation Aspides, a maritime effort in the Red Sea, might be the easiest way to help in the Strait of Hormuz. But Germany expressed skepticism before Monday’s E.U. meeting, and other members of the 27-nation bloc seemed to agree. “For the time being, there was no appetite in changing the mandate of the Operation Aspides, for now,” Kallas said.
Trump lashed out at Keir Starmer, prime minister of Britain. He said Starmer told him on Sunday that “I’m meeting with my team to make a determination” on potentially sending help to re-open the Strait of Hormuz. Trump says he responded: “Why do you have to meet with your team?”
President Trump dismissed the idea that Israel would conduct a nuclear strike on Iran. “Israel would never do that,” he said. Israel is believed to possess about 100 nuclear weapons; Iran has none, but the war was predicated, in part, on keeping it from producing nuclear weapons from its stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium.
Asked why, if the U.S. has destroyed all of Iran’s mine-laying ships as Trump claimed, the U.S. can’t immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said: “We could, but it takes two to tango.” He said that the U.S. needed to “get people to take their billion-dollar ship and, you know, drive it up.”
Trump has been saying repeatedly that other countries will help re-open the Strait of Hormuz — “we’re going to have some good help,” he says. But we still haven’t heard any clear details about which countries have agreed to help and how.
“We don’t know who their leader is,” Trump said of Iran. “Look, all of their leaders are dead, as far as we know.” He spoke of reports that Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since he was announced as his father’s successor, is “badly disfigured.” But then he added: “Nobody’s seen him, which is unusual.”
President Trump said he was open to talks with Iran but quickly added that “we don’t even know their leaders,” because the Iranian officials the United States had known had been killed. He added: “We have people wanting to negotiate. We have no idea who they are.”
President Trump, in reprising his gripes with NATO, declared that the U.S. is the reason that the alliance is powerful. “You can ask Putin,” he said. “Putin fears us,” he added, saying, “He has no fear of Europe whatsoever.”
On China, President Trump talked again about Beijing’s reliance on oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz. “It always amazed me that we did it,” he said of the U.S. protecting the strait. “We never asked for reimbursement and it was really there to serve other countries, not us.” Then he drifted off and never completed the thought about whether China would provide help in securing the strait.
Trump says he spoke to President Emmanuel Macron of France on Sunday and says, “I think he’s going to help” with securing the Strait of Hormuz, without explaining how.
“We don’t need anybody,” Trump says. “We’re the strongest nation in the world.” He characterized the security of the Strait of Hormuz as a test issue, “because I’ve been saying for years that if we ever did need them, they won’t be there.”
President Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio will soon provide a list of countries that have signed on to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said some “are really enthusiastic.” Earlier in his remarks, Trump named other countries — Japan, China, South Korea and “many of the Europeans” — that he said relied on the strait for oil more than the U.S. does, and that the U.S. wanted to help.
President Trump declines to say what countries are headed to help with the Strait of Hormuz. But then he goes directly after NATO member countries, saying “they should be jumping to help us.” NATO has not yet formally taken up the issue.
President Trump spoke of his frustration with U.S. allies that he has long criticized, and who are now rebuffing his calls to join a coalition to secure the strait, saying that he has always been critical of protecting other countries because, “if we ever needed help, they won’t be there for us.”
President Trump, who pressed Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why the United States could not immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz during an Oval Office meeting last week, uses his remarks to assert that he knew all along that the oil route could become a challenge. “I knew about the strait — that it would be a weapon, which I predicted a long time ago,” Trump said.
Missing from President Trump’s mocking treatment of the American allies who have been reluctant to contribute forces to escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz is any discussion of the fact that he did not consult them before he initiated the attacks on Iran. His essential argument is that “we protected them,″ and they are now not willing to help the U.S. with the Iran conflict.
President Trump veers into praising his relationship with Venezuela — “it’s been great, by the way,” he says. It’s a reminder that Trump launched the war on Iran brimming with confidence after what he saw as his success in January in removing President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela from power.
President Trump is now expressing his frustration that some countries — he isn’t naming them — are not enthusiastic about sending forces to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil route. “We would rather not get involved, sir,” Trump says, mocking what he says he has heard from world leaders. Of course, Trump entered the war having burned a lot of goodwill among American allies, and he consulted them minimally about going to war with Iran.
Trump says the United States has hit all 30 of Iran’s mine-laying ships, but warns that Iran could still use other boats to mine the waters of the Persian Gulf. He says it’s not clear if Iran has started laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. “We don’t know that they have dropped anything,” he says.
President Trump begins the news conference, saying that the Iranian regime had been “literally obliterated,” an echo of the claims he made after the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear program last summer.
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon
As Israel widens its ground assault in southern Lebanon, the town of Khiam has emerged as a focal point of the escalating offensive.
The town is situated on strategic high ground a few miles north of the border with Israel and has been coveted over decades of conflicts. It has been the site of some of the fiercest clashes between Iran-backed Hezbollah militants and Israeli ground forces as they made incursions into southern Lebanon over the past two weeks.
A fifth member of Iran’s national women’s soccer team rescinded her claim for asylum in Australia and left the country, the Australian government confirmed on Monday.
Seven members of the Iranian women’s national team had initially sought asylum in Australia, where they had been playing in the Asia Cup Tournament when the United States and Israel began attacking Iran on Feb. 28.
The Lebanese health ministry has updated its running toll of those killed and wounded in Israel’s military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to at least 886 dead and more than 2,000 injured.
Reporting from London
News Analysis
As President Trump’s assault on Iran enters its third week, European leaders are largely resisting his bellicose demands for help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
At the same time, they are trying to avoid irreparably damaging their relationship with the United States over their opposition to another war of America’s choosing.
Iran will hold a memorial ceremony on Monday for Ali Shamkhani, one of the top advisors to the country’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei and Shamkhani were both killed on Feb. 28, the first day of U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. Shamkhani previously commanded Iran’s regular navy and also the Revolutionary Guards naval force. He was severely wounded during the Israel-Iran war last year.
The International Energy Agency could release additional oil reserves “as and if needed,” Fatih Birol, its executive director, said on Monday. The agency previously said it would release 400 million barrels from member country reserves to shore up supplies and ease the market. The current release “can provide a buffer for now,” Birol said, but “it is not a lasting solution.” He added that the I.E.A. would still have over 1.4 billion barrels of oil after this release is completed.
Israel intends to continue attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon but is open to eventual talks with the Lebanese government to stop the fighting, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said in a news briefing on Monday. There have been efforts to mediate between Israel and Lebanon but, Danon said, “you can achieve talks and make them effective when you degrade the capabilities of your enemy.”
Reporting from Jerusalem
The Israeli military has denied reports that it is running out of missile interceptors more than two weeks into the war with Iran, saying it had “prepared for prolonged combat.”
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, a military spokesman, told reporters on Monday that Iran was firing far fewer missiles at Israel than the military had contended with at other times in the past two years of regional wars. He added that he was not aware of any “urgent problem” with the stock of interceptors, adding that Israel had prepared for a “larger threat.”
President Trump announced on social media that he would hold a news conference before an 11:45 a.m. meeting with members of the Kennedy Center board.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said on Monday that President Trump’s upcoming trip to China later this month may be delayed because of the war against Iran. Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to discuss a range of issues in the high-stakes meeting, including trade and Taiwan. “The dates may be moved,” Leavitt said. “As commander-in-chief, it’s his No. 1 priority right now to ensure the continued success of this operation, Epic Fury.”
On Sunday, Trump threatened in an interview that he may delay the meeting as he called on China and other nations to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Stefan Kornelius, the German government spokesman, reiterated Germany’s unwillingness to send its military to help defend the Strait of Hormuz and warned that Israel’s ground offensive in Lebanon could worsen humanitarian conditions. For that reason, “we are also urging our Israeli friends not to go down this path,” he said during a news conference in Berlin on Monday.
In Israel, criticism of the government’s strategy against Iran and Hezbollah has been muted so far. Opinion polls suggest most Israelis support the campaigns. But Yair Golan, leader of the left-wing Democrats party, said on Monday that the government’s decision to expand its ground incursion in Lebanon risked “a forever war.” Golan, a former general, said Israel “must exhaust every diplomatic option” before launching an invasion. So far, the Israeli government has publicly rebuffed Lebanese and French initiatives for a cease-fire.
U.N. human rights experts called on Monday for an immediate de-escalation of the war with Iran, citing the harm to civilians from U.S. and Israeli airstrikes and the ferocious repression of anti-government protests by the Iranian authorities.
Mai Sato, a U.N. expert monitoring Iran, told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that the U.S.-Israeli strikes were unlawful and had reportedly cost more than 1,000 civilian lives. The experts said that more than 7,000 Iranians were credibly reported to have died in the government crackdown earlier this year and that at least 30 protesters still faced execution.
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon
Like many others from the border area, Iman Ibrahim fears that the Israeli military is laying the groundwork for occupying parts of southern Lebanon, much like it did after invading in 1982. The Israeli military has issued sweeping evacuation orders for much of the south, stretching as far as 25 miles from the border, and Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, has warned that Lebanon could face territorial losses unless Hezbollah is disarmed.
“I feel like this is preparation for an occupation, and I’m afraid history will repeat itself,” Ibrahim said. “Everything we used to hear from our grandparents about occupation, we’re living it now.”
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon
Israel’s widening ground assault in southern Lebanon has heightened fears among Lebanese living in border villages that they will not be able to return home soon. “The idea that we might not return to our homes, to the people of the village, feels like a part of my identity is being taken away from me,” said Iman Ibrahim, 30, who fled her village, Blida, when the war between Hezbollah and Israel escalated this month.
Pope Leo XIV received a call from Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, on Monday, and their topics of conversation included the “alarming developments in the Middle East.” Pope Leo “reaffirmed the Holy See’s commitment to achieving peace through political and diplomatic dialogue, as well as through full respect for international law,” the Vatican said.
Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command, showed several before-and-after photos of American air strikes hitting Iran’s military industrial complex, including missile factories. The goal is to destroy Iran’s ability to fight back and threaten the region, he said.
Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command, said that Iran had carried out more than 300 attacks by missiles or drones at more than a dozen countries since the war started. Even as Admiral Cooper heralded the American military successes in the campaign, he offered no detailed explanation of how the U.S. would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway that Iran has effectively closed. He also did not say how much longer the war would last, and only repeated an earlier assessment: “Iran’s capabilities are declining as our capabilities and advantages continue to build.”
Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, said on Monday that the U.S. attack on Friday against Iranian military sites on Kharg Island, the country’s oil export hub, destroyed more than 90 targets, including bunkers for naval mines and missiles. In 16 days of combat, American attack planes have carried out more than 6,000 combat missions, destroying more than 100 Iranian naval vessels, he said.
Germany rejected a U.S. demand for military support to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after President Trump warned that it would be bad for NATO if American allies did not do more to help.“This is not our war; we did not start it,” Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, said at a news conference in Berlin on Monday. “We want diplomatic solutions and a swift end to the conflict, but sending more warships to the region will likely not help achieve that,” he said.
“What does Donald Trump expect from, say, a handful or two of European frigates in the Strait of Hormuz?” he added. “He needs them to achieve what the mighty U.S. Navy cannot manage on its own there, is that it? That’s the question I’m asking myself.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not say if Britain would send warships to the Persian Gulf after President Trump called for the government to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But Starmer urged a “swift resolution” to the conflict and said a “negotiated agreement” was needed to limit Iran’s nuclear program after the war ended.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said on Monday that his government was working with allies on a viable plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz but cautioned that Britain would not be “drawn into wider war,” hours after a call with President Trump.
Trump has repeatedly lashed out at Starmer for his initial refusal to join the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran. But Starmer said at a news conference that he had a good relationship with the president, and stood by his decision for British forces to only take part in defensive actions to protect British interests and regional allies.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested on CNBC that sanctions on Russian oil exports would be reimposed when the conflict in Iran is over, and oil supplies have recovered. Last week, President Trump lifted the sanctions as the administration scrambles to contain soaring energy prices because of the war with Iran.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed as rumors recent suggestions that the U.S. could intervene in oil markets financially, such as by shorting futures, and told CNBC that he was not sure under what authority Treasury could take such actions.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the U.S. has been allowing Iranian ships to transit through the Strait of Hormuz, and was hopeful that more ships would soon be able to pass through the vital oil supply route. “We’ve let that happen to supply the rest of the world,” he told CNBC.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that it was unclear if President Trump’s summit in Beijing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, set to begin at the end of this month, would be rescheduled. Bessent, who is in Paris meeting with his Chinese counterpart to discuss plans for the summit, told CNBC that any delay would be because Trump chose to stay in the United States while waging the war against Iran, not because of a disruption in U.S. relations with China. Bessent said that the U.S. and China would release a statement in the coming days, reaffirming the stability of the relationship between the world’s two largest economies.
Reporting from London
President Trump has threatened to postpone a long-planned summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as he called on China to send warships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, casting a new shadow over the relationship between the world’s two biggest economies.
Mr. Trump told the Financial Times on Sunday that he “may delay” the meeting, which is expected to start on March 31 in Beijing, if China does not answer his demand to help reopen the strait to shipping in the next two weeks. Mr. Trump said that waiting until the summit for an answer may be too long.
Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said on Monday that country’s military had launched a “ground maneuver” in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group, effectively expanding a ground invasion there. Israeli troops have been gradually widening a buffer zone they control inside Lebanon for days, the military said on Monday, before ramping up the assault.
Israel has warned hundreds of thousands of Lebanese to flee their homes ahead of Israeli attacks since the conflict with Hezbollah escalated, displacing more than 800,000 people in the country. It is unclear, however, how far Israeli troops have been ordered to advance.
Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, vowed to continue the fight against the United States and Israel, saying in a statement on social media that the Iranian government planned “to continue the war as far as necessary.” He added that the Iranian government’s aim is to end the war “in such a way that our enemies will never again think of repeating these attacks and this aggression.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry warned on Monday that the Iranian government would not allow any ships from countries it deems hostile to pass through Strait of Hormuz. “The Strait of Hormuz will not be open to any country intending to harm Iran,” Esmail Baghaei, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, said in a statement carried by state media. “The armed forces are controlling the transit, and no country will be able to use the Strait of Hormuz to strike against Iran.”
The Israeli military said it was launching more attacks across Iran on Monday, including in Tehran and the cities of Shiraz and Tabriz.
Dan Jorgensen, the European Union’s energy commissioner, said on Monday that European officials were watching fuel markets warily. “We are very well aware that we need to not only monitor the situation,” he told reporters ahead of a meeting of European energy ministers in Brussels. “We need to also prepare, because the situation can escalate even further, and we need to be ready for also deploying short term measures to try and help member states in that situation.”
Kaja Kallas, the top European Union diplomat, responded on Monday to President Trump’s warning that NATO faces a “very bad” future if U.S. allies do not help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “It is in our interest to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, and that’s why we are also discussing what we can do in this regard,” she told reporters on Monday morning, ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels. What steps Europe can take to secure the key shipping route is high on today’s agenda.
The Israeli military said it was expanding its ground assault on Monday in southern Lebanon, where Israeli soldiers have been carving out a de facto buffer zone in their fight with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group.
While previous Israeli raids had mostly focused on the immediate border area, Nadav Shoshani, the Israeli military spokesman, said Israeli forces were now pressing into “new areas.” He declined to comment on the scope of the operation.
Many Lebanese fear Israel could soon launch a much more sweeping invasion of the country’s south — a scenario for which Israeli military planners have been preparing. The Israeli military has already demanded residents across southern Lebanon flee their homes, leading hundreds of thousands to evacuate. Asked whether Israeli forces intended to hold the areas into which they were advancing, Shoshani said that had yet to be determined.
Reporting from Hong Kong
Asked about Trump’s comment that he might postpone his planned trip to China later this month if Beijing does not help to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said that both sides were still discussing Trump’s visit.
“Head-of-state diplomacy plays an irreplaceable, strategic guiding role in China-U.S. relations,” Lin Jian, the spokesman, told reporters in Beijing. He added that China was “committed” to de-escalating the conflict in the Middle East and was maintaining communication “with all relevant parties regarding the current situation.”
Oil prices hovered near multiyear highs and stocks on Wall Street rose on Monday as investors continued to weigh implications of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
Australia does not intend to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz, Catherine King, the transport minister, said on Monday, after President Trump called over the weekend for other countries to help end the de facto Iranian blockade of the waterway. “We know how incredibly important that is, but that’s not something that we’ve been asked or that we’re contributing to,” King told Australia’s national broadcaster.
The local authorities said a missile fell on a civilian vehicle in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, killing a Palestinian national. The statement did not say where the missile was from, but Iran has lobbed scores of missiles and drones at the country as part of its retaliation for the American-Israeli air war.
Dubai International Airport is beginning to resume operations after flights there were suspended early Monday because a drone damaged a fuel tank near the airport, sparking a fire, the Dubai Media Office said. The fire has been brought under control and there were no injuries, the office said. Emirates said on its website that some flights scheduled for Monday have been canceled and that it expected to operate a limited schedule from 10 a.m. onward.
The Iran-allied militia, Kataib Hezbollah, said it launched two drone strikes at the U.S. diplomatic logistics site at Baghdad International Airport early Monday. An Iraqi official who was not authorized to speak publicly said both strikes were intercepted.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan is facing pressure on Monday to clarify how she would respond if President Trump pushes her to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz when she meets with him this week in Washington.
“The Japanese government is currently considering how to take the necessary measures,” she said during an appearance before Japan’s Parliament. “Of course, this will be within the scope of Japanese law, but we are considering how to protect the lives of Japanese-related vessels and their crews, and what we can do.”
The Israeli military has twice in about two hours said that it had detected Iranian missile launches toward Israel, told people in affected areas to seek shelter and less than a half hour later signaled the danger was over. Israel’s emergency services, Magen David Adom, said that no casualties were reported, but that its teams had treated some people injured on the way to shelters and others who suffered from anxiety following the first set of sirens. After the second set of sirens, it said that paramedics had “set out to scan the scene” and that an update would follow “if necessary.”
A fifth member of Iran’s national women’s soccer team who had sought asylum in Australia has reversed her decision and left the country, the Australian government confirmed on Monday. The country had granted seven members of the team humanitarian visas after they were labeled “traitors” in Iranian state media for failing to sing the national anthem at a time of war, in an apparent act of silent protest during an Asian Cup match in Melbourne.
The Dubai Media Office said early on Monday morning in the Middle East that authorities there were responding to a fire from “a drone-related incident in the vicinity of Dubai International Airport” that had caused damage to a fuel tank. Civil defense teams were bringing the fire under control and no injuries had been reported so far, it said. The airport is normally among the world’s busiest, but it has contended with multiple drone attacks in recent weeks.
The Israeli military said early on Monday morning in the Middle East that it was targeting government infrastructure in Tehran with a “broad wave of attacks,” after having conducted strikes earlier in Beirut, Lebanon.
Reporting from London
President Trump’s call for some countries not involved in the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran to send ships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz has received cautious responses.
Mr. Trump named China, Britain, France, Japan and South Korea in a social media post on Saturday, urging them to join an effort to guard the waterway, a conduit for a fifth of the world’s oil shipments.
More on the Fighting in the Middle East
Mood in Tehran: Residents say a heavy, lifeless atmosphere hangs over the streets of Iran’s capital, which has endured relentless attacks throughout the war.
U.S. Refueling Plane Crashes: A U.S. military refueling aircraft that was part of the war against Iran crashed in Iraq. The crash was not because of hostile or friendly fire, U.S. Central Command said. All six crew members died, bringing the number of U.S. service members killed in the war to at least 13.
Iranian National Soccer Team: Seven members of the women’s team had sought refuge in Australia after they were labeled “traitors” at home. Four have since changed their minds.
Testing Europe’s Military Might: To defend allies from Iran, the continent’s powers have mounted a rare show of force. But those efforts have also revealed the limits of Europe’s defense abilities, officials and analysts said.
Staying Underground in an Israeli Border City: The Israeli government evacuated Kiryat Shmona during the last round of fighting with Hezbollah in 2023. Residents who were told it was safe to return are again under fire.
Grounded Gulf Airlines: Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways have become some of the world’s largest and most profitable carriers because of their location at the center of busy travel routes. The war has forced them to cancel tens of thousands of flights.
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