LIVE: Nato shoots down Iranian missile after it crosses into Turkey

Donald Trump has threatened to blow up Iran’s oil wells and desalination plants unless a deal can be reached to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, the President said the US is in ‘serious discussions’ with a ‘more reasonable regime’ to end the war but said he will take action unless an agreement is made

‘Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched,”’ Trump penned.

Here are the latest developments as the US-Israel war with Iran enters its fifth week:

• Donald Trump has threatened to blow up Iran’s power plants, oil wells, desalination plants and Kharg Island unless the Strait of Hormuz is reopened
• His latest remarks come hours after he told The Financial Times he could ‘take Iran’s oil’ and added Kharg Island could be overtaken ‘very easily’
• A power station worker in Kuwait was killed following a missile strike which caused significant damage at the energy site
• An Israeli oil refinery has caught fire after a missile strike
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirm the death of navy commander Alireza Tangsiri after he was targeted in an Israeli airstrike last week
• Iran has restored electricity across Tehran and nearby areas after strikes damaged power grids and briefly disrupted supply, the deputy energy minister said
• Indonesia has confirmed that one of its peacekeepers was killed in Lebanon where Israel is fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah
• Attacks are continuing on Gulf states as Saudi Arabia intercepts five ballistic missiles while air defences have also been operating in Dubai
• Pakistan has said it is ready to broker and host ‘meaningful talks’ between the US and and Iran to bring an end to the war
• A teenager has become the sixth Israeli soldier killed in southern Lebanon since fighting broke out with Hezbollah on March 2

Stick with us as we bring you the latest developments throughout the day.

Marco Rubio has accused America’s NATO allies of abandoning the US in an hour of need.

The US Secretary of State complained that NATO ally Spain had barred US jets involved in the war against Iran from overflying its airspace.

Rubio has generally been supportive of NATO even as Trump has lashed out against alliance members for not stepping up during the war.

But on Monday he lashed out at Spain’s leftist leaders for ‘bragging’ about cutting off its airspace even as the US has pledged to defend their country.

He said the alliance is useful for the US. because it allows America to station troops and equipment in Europe, ‘but if NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked but then denying us basing rights when we need them, that’s not a very good arrangement.’

Benjamin Netanyahu has said he doesn’t want to ‘put a schedule’ on when the war with Iran is likely to end.

The Israeli prime minister said the conflict is ‘definitely beyond the halfway point’ and the Islamic republic will eventually ‘collapse internally’.

The British Defence Ministry says Royal Air Force jets operating in a ‘high-threat area’ in the Middle East successfully downed multiple Iranian drones, without providing further details.

In its daily update on UK military activity in the region, the ministry said UK Typhoons and F-35 jets, together with Wildcat helicopters, continued ‘defensive’ missions overnight over Cyprus, Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

It added that UK pilots and aircrew have now exceeded 1,200 flying hours during operations since the conflict began.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has told Saudi Arabia it is ‘high time to eject US forces’.

In a post on X, Araghchi says Iran ‘respects’ Saudi Arabia and considers it a ‘brotherly nation’.

Iran’s operations are aimed at ‘enemy aggressors who have no respect for Arabs or Iranians’, he says.

Araghchi posted his comments alongside a picture that appears to show a destroyed plane with US Air Force markings.

‘Just look at what we did to their aerial command,’ he writes.

Protesters carried Iranian flags and photos of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike, and were chanting slogans against the US and Israel in Tehran, Iran.

Al Jazeera Arabic has reported that an air strike has targeted a military base used by the Iran-aligned Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in Iraq’s western town of al-Karma in the province of Anbar.

The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Defence says its air forces are actively engaging with missiles and UAV (unidentified aerial vehicle) threats.

Sounds being heard across the country are the result of ‘ongoing engaging operations’, the country’s defence ministry says.

It urges the public to ‘remain calm’ and follow ‘safety and security instructions’.

The leaders of wealthy Gulf states, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as key US ally Jordan, held an in-person meeting on Monday to discuss regional tensions and ways to avoid further escalation.

After the summit in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, the three leaders put out statements warning that continued Iranian attacks, including strikes on civilian and critical infrastructure, mark a dangerous escalation.

The talks focused on coordinating a regional response, backing diplomatic efforts to ease tensions, and managing the economic fallout of a conflict that has disrupted energy markets and trade routes across the region.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it struck an Israeli container ship that was carrying a flag ‘of a third country,’ according to the semi-official news agency Fars.

Itamar Ben-Gvir was seen wearing a noose-shaped pin as he attended a memorial service held for Ran Gvili, an off-duty police officer who was killed fighting militants that had infiltrated Israel during the deadly October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.