Iran fires on targets across Mideast while Israel and US hit Tehran
UK to send air defence system to Kuwait
French-owned vessel crosses through the Strait of Hormuz
Abu Dhabi gas complex shut as fire erupts after intercepted attack
Iran says second US F-35 downed: Mehr news agency
US President Donald Trump said Iran had 48 hours left to make a deal on opening the vital Strait of Hormuz or face "Hell."
"Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT," Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to his ultimatum issued on March 26.
"Time is running out -- 48 hours before all Hell will reign (sic) down on them," the president said, adding: "Glory be to GOD!"
Two family members of slain Iranian general Qassem Soleimani have been arrested in the United States after their residency permits were rescinded, the US State Department said.
"Last night, the niece and grand niece of deceased Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qassem Soleimani were arrested by federal agents following Secretary of State Marco Rubio's termination of their lawful permanent resident (LPR) status," a department statement said.
Three people were killed and scores of others injured in the US-Israeli attack in Iran's western Kermanshah province, Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported.
The US-Israeli attack on civilian residential areas in Kermanshah killed three people and injured several others, the news agency said.
At least 11 people were killed and several others wounded in a series of Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon, the country’s state news agency NNA reported.
Israeli strikes killed nine people and wounded five in Nabatieh and Tyre, including in attacks on a house, a motorcycle and a town junction.
Two warheads from an Iranian fragmentation missile reportedly exploded near the Kirya base in Tel Aviv, close to the Israeli Defence Ministry, Israeli Channel 12 says, with no independent confirmation.
Russia started a planned evacuation of 198 workers from Iran's Bushehr atomic plant shortly after a US-Israeli projectile hit near the facility, Russian state media said.
This was a third evacuation from the facility in southern Iran on the Gulf coast, which was built with Moscow's help, with about 100 Russian staff remaining there by now.
The area around Bushehr has been struck four times during this war. The latest attack on Saturday saw one person -- a guard at the facility -- killed, but did not damage the plant itself, according to Iranian state media.
Azerbaijan has sent another humanitarian aid shipment to Iran amid the ongoing US-Israeli war, state news agency Azertag reports.
The 200-ton package includes food, medicines and medical supplies, dispatched by order of President Ilham Aliyev to support people in neighbouring Iran.
Austria’s vice chancellor said Vienna will not be drawn into US policy during the war on Iran, stressing neutrality is “non-negotiable,” including on military overflights.
Andreas Babler says even flights supporting military operations must face scrutiny, as Austria upholds its longstanding neutral stance.
An Iranian psychiatric hospital in the capital Tehran was struck during ongoing US-Israeli attacks, but no casualties were reported, authorities said.
Delaram Sina Psychiatric Hospital sustained damage in the strike and is currently unable to operate, according to Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency, which cited the head of the facility.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they targeted an Israel-linked ship in the Gulf in a drone attack, setting it on fire.
On their Sepah News website, the Guards said they targeted a commercial vessel, the MSC Ishyka, "owned by the Israeli regime and flying the flag of a third country" at the Khalifa Bin Salman port in Bahrain.
The Guards naval forces had earlier said in a post on X that the ship was attacked "in the Strait of Hormuz".
"A drone struck the vessel ... linked to the Zionist regime in the Strait of Hormuz; the ship caught fire," they said.
Following deadly US-Israeli strike on Bushehr nuclear plant, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says attacks on petrochemical facilities reveal "real objectives".
Israel's military issued an evacuation warning for several neighbourhoods in and around Tyre in south Lebanon, after the health ministry reported a hospital damaged in strikes on nearby buildings.
"Urgent warning to the residents of the city of Tyre... Hezbollah's terrorist activity compels the IDF to operate against it with determination," the Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesman Colonel Avichay Adraee said on X.
US-Israeli strikes have hit more than 30 universities across Iran since the war broke out in late February, Iran's science minister said.
"To date, more than 30 universities have been directly targeted," Hossein Simai Sarraf told reporters during a visit to the Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran, which was struck on Friday.
Ongoing US and Israeli air strikes targeted a cement factory in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan, a senior official said.
The Bandar Khamir cement factory was targeted in a drone attack, and there were no casualties, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported, citing the deputy provincial governor.
The factory remains operational, and no disruption was caused to the supply chain, it added.
Iran approved the passage of ships carrying humanitarian and essential goods through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a letter by the Agriculture Ministry’s trade development office, Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported.
Backed by the government and the armed forces, the directive permits vessels carrying essential goods and livestock feed to pass through under designated protocols, the report said.
After the approval, industry associations informed their member companies to proceed with sending cargo ships to southern Iranian ports following the removal of the previous restrictions, it added.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran has never refused to attend mediation talks in Islamabad.
He stressed that Iran’s priority is securing terms for a “conclusive and lasting end to the illegal war” imposed on the country.
The US Air Force has lost at least seven aircraft in its war with Iran, CNN reported, after two fighter jets — an F-15 and an A-10 — were downed in separate incidents on Friday.
Earlier in the conflict, three F-15s were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defences in a friendly-fire incident, while six US personnel were killed in a KC-135 tanker crash in Iraq. An E-3 Sentry aircraft was also destroyed in an Iranian strike in Saudi Arabia, and an F-35 was damaged in a separate incident.
The shipping ministry confirmed that LPG carrier Green Sanvi had transited through the chokepoint.
"Green Sanvi has safely transited the Strait of Hormuz, carrying 46,650 MT of LPG cargo with 25 seafarers on board", a statement said, without giving further details on its final destination.
It added that 17 Indian-flagged vessels, with 460 Indian seafarers, "remain in the western Persian Gulf region".
Iran's oil exports from the key island of Kharg have increased even as the war with the US and Israel rages, Iranian media reported.
"Following the visits carried out and meetings held on Kharg island, I must say that in recent days not only have oil exports not decreased, but they have increased," ISNA news agency quoted Moussa Ahmadi, the head of the Iranian parliament's energy commission, as saying.
A US-Israeli strike hit a trade terminal at the Iran-Iraq border, killing one person, Iranian media reported.
"At 11:00 am, the commercial terminal of the Shalamcheh border crossing in the southwestern city of Khorramshahr was targeted in an air attack by American and Zionist enemies," Iran’s Mehr news agency said, citing the deputy governor for Khuzestan province, Valiollah Hayati.
ISNA news agency cited Hayati as saying that "an Iraqi driver was killed and two Iranian workers were wounded" in the attack.
Following the airstrikes near the frontier, Iraq closed the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran, security sources said, after the attack also struck a passenger reception area and prompted authorities to suspend trade and traveller movement through the crossing.
Iran fires on targets across Mideast while Israel and US hit Tehran
UK to send air defence system to Kuwait
French-owned vessel crosses through the Strait of Hormuz
Abu Dhabi gas complex shut as fire erupts after intercepted attack
Iran says second US F-35 downed: Mehr news agency



