- Three oil tankers caught fire after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday, according to state news agency IRNA and state broadcaster IRIB.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said Iran was “facing extraordinary economic pain” from sanctions imposed by America, adding that US sees no need for “major combat operations” at present.
- The Brent benchmark dropped below $90 on Tuesday for the first time since August 31, even as US President Donald Trump said he plans to hold off from new military strikes against Iran.
- Iran on Tuesday urged the United States to address its demands and engage in diplomacy to reach a solution for the conflict, rather than intensifying military actions.
- US President Donald Trump met Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Monday. Following the meeting, the US President suggested that — at least for now — he’s not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated Tehran and caused reverberations across the global economy, according to AP.
- Jassim Al Thani made an unscheduled stop at G7 leaders meet to inform its allies after Trump talks on Iran.
US-Iran war LIVE: An oil tanker caught fire after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday, according to state broadcaster IRIB.
Two other tankers had caught fire earlier on Tuesday after hitting naval mines in the strait, according to the Revolutionary Guards.
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday said
claims of a meeting between Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei and US
Vice-President JD Vance were “baseless media speculation,” news agency Reuters
reported.
US-Iran war LIVE: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said Iran was “facing extraordinary economic pain” from sanctions imposed by America.
“The economic pain that is being inflicted on Iran right now, on that regime, is extraordinary. It compounds, it's growing every day. These sanctions get worse over time, they get more painful as time goes on,” Rubio said.
He added, “It's all brought about by the fact that this radical regime of lunatics is imposing this on their own people. They're destroying their own country.”
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran has rejected the French government's accusations that it was responsible for cyberattacks on supermarket fridges last month.
“Iran's foreign ministry categorically rejects the French government's baseless and one-sided accusations against Iran regarding alleged cyber activities in France,” it said in a statement, according to AFP. It added that it “strongly condemns this hackneyed policy of levelling accusations against the Islamic Republic.”
US-Iran war LIVE: United Kingdom foreign minister on Tuesday urged an “all-out diplomatic effort” to end the conflict between United States and Iran, AFP reported.
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran's chief of staff of armed forces Ali Abdollahi has said that if the “enemy” commits any wrongs against Iran, its military will “respond without restrictions and beyond the region,” Al Jazeera reported.
“We will have many surprises for the enemy during the future war. If the Zionist entity makes any mistake against us, we will destroy it,” he said. The remarks come despite Trump’s announcement on Monday that the war was “effectively over.”
US-Iran war LIVE: Iraq has barred a plane carrying Iran's national soccer team from landing at Basra airport on Tuesday, with its civil aviation authority saying the decision was linked to US sanctions imposed on Iranian airlines, two officials said, according to news agency Reuters.
The plane returned to Iran and landed at Abadan airport, and the team will now travel overland to Basra, an Iranian consulate official in Basra said. The Iranian team was travelling to Iraq to participate in a four-nation tournament in Basra also involving Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.
US-Iran war LIVE: Multiple explosions were heard over the Saudi capital Riyadh early on Tuesday, with the coalition fighting Yemen's Houthis saying it shot down a missile targeting the city.
According to AFP, its journalists heard several blasts, as residents received a mobile-phone alert urging them to shelter from an "aerial threat". The Saudi-led coalition later said it intercepted a ballistic missile.
“Air defences intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the terrorist Houthi militia towards Riyad,” the coalition said in a post on X.
US-Iran war LIVE: A majority of Americans want the newly elected Democratic-majority US Congress to act to end the war with Iran and to repeal tariffs put in place by President Donald Trump, news agency Reuters reported.
The four-day poll, completed on Monday, showed 71% of Americans -- including 93% of Democrats and 51% of Republicans -- want US Congress to pass legislation ending the conflict with Iran that Trump launched alongside US ally Israel in February.
US-Iran war LIVE: Canada on Tuesday said it was reimposing sanctions against 11 Iranian companies in the energy and banking sectors for contributing to the Islamic republic's nuclear drive, ballistic missile programme or the financing of “malign activities”, AFP reported.
The companies, which include the National Iranian Oil Company and leading banks Mellat and Melli, were delisted from Canadian sanctions in 2016. However, the measures have been reimposed to “disrupt Iranian financial networks supporting its nuclear program”, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Paris.
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy on Tuesday said two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz had caught fire after hitting naval mines, news agency Reuters reported.
US-Iran war LIVE: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states have approved the establishment of an advanced headquarters for their unified military command in Kuwait and the deployment of "appropriate" forces to it, the bloc's secretary-general said, according to Saudi state television Al Ekhbariya, news agency Reuters reported.
No further details on the command or the forces to be deployed were immediately available.
US-Iran war LIVE: The Brent benchmark dropped below $90 on Tuesday for the first time since August 31, even as US President Donald Trump said he plans to hold off from new military strikes against Iran.
“The market continues to prioritise President Trump's more conciliatory tone toward Iran since the midterms,” news agency Reuters cited Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade, as saying.
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran on Tuesday urged the United States to address its demands and engage in diplomacy to reach a solution for the conflict, rather than intensifying military actions.
“The conflict with Iran will not be resolved through military means, nor by intensifying sanctions,” Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told news agency IRNA. Tehran has proposed reopening Hormuz, which it has blockaded since the start of the war, within two days in return for Washington meeting a raft of conditions, AFP reported.
“The only solution is to adopt a language of respect, engage in diplomacy, and address Iran's demands and conditions -- which were outlined in the two-day proposal and remain on the table,” Araghchi said.
US-Iran war LIVE: Qatari's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani made an unscheduled stop at G7 leaders meet to inform its allies after Trump talks on Iran.
US-Iran war LIVE: Last week, Iran sent a nuclear proposal to the US via Qatar, subject to Washington meeting seven conditions laid out by Tehran.
Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has accused the US of spreading fake news and alleged that Washington is acting like a “desperate gambler”. It urged Washington to "surrender" to its seven demands.
"The war on Iran has already wrecked the US government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler," Rezaei wrote on X. "FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks. Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER. Time to SURRENDER to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out,” Rezaei wrote in a post on X.
US-Iran war LIVE: US President Donald Trump met Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Monday, marking a key development in the talks between the US and Iran.
Following the meeting, the US President told reporters he believes the war in Iran “militarily is effectively over." He further suggested that — at least for now — he’s not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated Tehran and caused reverberations across the global economy, according to AP.
However, Trump has also continued his aggressive rhetoric against Iran, saying the US was "locked and loaded" to launch another operation.
"We're building more weapons right now in our military than we've ever built before. If we have to do the rest of the Iran thing, we're very much locked and loaded," Trump said on Friday.
Speaking to C-SPAN on Tuesday, Trump said the timeline for ending the conflict would depend on developments on the ground and the progress of diplomatic efforts.
"It depends. I mean, we could knock it out fast, or we could knock it out over a short—not a long period of time," Trump said on the Washington Journal Primetime while responding to a question about how long the Iran war would continue.
US-Iran war LIVE: The US evacuated American aircraft from an air base in England on Monday in the wake of a threat from Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.
The precise nature of the threat to RAF Mildenhall—whether imminent or more general—remains under discussion among U.S. officials, the people said.
Two US refueling tankers that were using Mildenhall diverted to Germany earlier in the morning, while several other tankers at the base were moved to Germany and other locations later in the day, according to flight-tracking data and another official familiar with the matter.
-WSJ
US-Iran war LIVE: The monthly tally of laden liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers exiting the Strait of Hormuz reached its highest in October since the US-Iran conflict disrupted shipping this year, vessel tracking data showed.
-Last month, 31 LNG tankers went through the key waterway, according to data from S&P Global Energy, of which 23 were loaded at Ras Laffan in Qatar and eight at Das Island in the United Arab Emirates.
-October exports were the highest since February when the war started and were up from September's corresponding tally of 23 vessels exiting the strait, the data showed.
-Reuters
US-Iran war LIVE: US President Donald Trump has suggested that the ongoing conflict with Iran could end soon, reiterating that Washington would not allow Tehran to develop nuclear weapons.
Speaking to C-SPAN on Tuesday, Trump said the timeline for ending the conflict would depend on developments on the ground and the progress of diplomatic efforts.
"It depends. I mean, we could knock it out fast, or we could knock it out over a short—not a long period of time," Trump said on the Washington Journal Primetime while responding to a question about how long the Iran war would continue.
US-Iran war LIVE: Oil prices fell on Tuesday, adding to the previous day's losses after US President Donald Trump downplayed the need for military action against Iran "at this point", easing fears of sustained supply disruptions in the Middle East.
Brent crude futures declined 70 cents, or 0.75%, to $91.88 a barrel by 0246 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures fell 78 cents, or 0.90%, to $86.07 a barrel. Both benchmarks had fallen 1% earlier in the session.
Brent settled down 5.85% in the previous session after sliding to its lowest since August 31.
-Reuters
US-Iran war LIVE: US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the Associated Press on Monday that he agrees with Trump's assessment that despite the costs in the US midterms, he would "do it again." Hegseth said, "It doesn’t have to be necessarily popular, but it can be necessary."
Hegseth's comments echoed that of Marco Rubio's on Sunday afternoon before he departed for the G7 meeting in France.
“He addressed it even though oftentimes the right thing to do for the country — confronting difficult challenges for the security of our country — doing it isn’t necessarily popular, but necessary,” Rubio said
US-Iran war LIVE: US President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Iran was talking “very politely” and ruled out military action.
"They're talking to us, and they're talking very politely, And we'll see what happens," Trump said. He added, "The military action doesn't seem to be a very necessary thing, but we're locked and loaded, ready to go for any reason that changes."
US-Iran war LIVE: US President Donald Trump told the press after the meeting with Qatar's PM Sheikh Mohammed that the Iran war is “militarily effectively over.”
"Iran militarily is effectively over," Trump said. “We're just keeping it the status quo,” he told reporters on Monday.
US-Iran war LIVE: Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has issued directives on ending the state of “neither war nor peace” with the US.
Pezeshkian also signalled Tehran’s willingness to engage in diplomatic talks, while making it clear that Iran will not bow to external pressure. He maintained that any dialogue must be conducted on fair and equal footing, without coercion, Iranian news agency ISNA reported.
US-Iran war LIVE: US President Donald Trump came out in support of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth amid calls for his impeachment, arguing that Hegseth should not be targeted over recent military operations.
Trump also claimed that Hegseth had won two wars.
"Pete Hegseth won two wars. 'Oh, let's impeach him!' What about impeaching the people who ran the Vietnam War? What about impeaching those who ran Iraq, Afghanistan, and all of these other wars where thousands of lives have been lost? We lost 18 people. Eighteen. They lost 65,000 in Vietnam. We're in there for seven months; they were in there for 21 years," Trump told reporters on Monday, news agency ANI reported.
US-Iran war LIVE: US President Donald Trump on Monday said he believes the war in Iran "militarily is effectively over," suggesting that -- at least for now -- he's not prepared to resume the bombardment that caused reverberations across the global economy.
The president made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room after meeting earlier in the day with Qatar's prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.
"Iran militarily is effectively over," Trump said. "We're just keeping it the status quo."