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Trump again criticized European allies for not getting involved in the war, saying they should"just take" the Strait of Hormuz themselves for fuel., the highest since 2022. Average prices at the pump are now higher than at any point during President Donald Trump’s two terms.
for not getting involved in the war, demanding the UK and other countries in need of jet fuel go to the Strait of Hormuz and “just TAKE IT.”US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the US military aims “to be unpredictable” when it comes to having American boots on the ground in Iran. “You can’t fight and win a war if you tell your adversary what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do - to include boots on the ground,” he said. “Our adversary right now thinks there are 15 different ways we could come at them with boots on the ground. And guess what? There are,” Hegseth continued. If needed, the US could “execute those options,” he said. “Or maybe we don’t have to use them at all. Maybe negotiations work. Or maybe there’s a different approach. The point is to be unpredictable in that - certainly not let anybody know what you’re willing to do or not do.” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine also told reporters that “the range of military options” that US forces can implement is “extensive,” and that adding troops to the region doesn’t just provide options for land operations. “I wouldn’t want to take away the president’s decision space, but there are a multitude of things, not the least of which is, Iran should note, that they’re out there and that they are a pressure point, and so they should carefully consider, I think, at the diplomatic level … to consider what’s in front of them” he said.US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, right, listens during a press briefing at the Pentagon on Tuesday.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the “primary” focus from the United States is pursuing a deal that will end its war with Iran. “Our job is to ensure that we compel Iran to realize that this new regime, this regime in charge, is in a better place if they make that deal,” the defense secretary said during a press briefing at the Pentagon. “We’re working hand in hand, but the primary effort is a deal. “We want that deal to be accomplished, if at all possible, if not, then we’re prepared to continue,” he added. Hegseth later said that it would be President Donald Trump’s “determination alone” when the US objectives in Iran “are complete, and when it serves the interest of the American people to cut that deal.”US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged that the US is aware that rival countries are providing intelligence on US assets to Iran. “There’s some things adversaries are doing to provide info and intel that they shouldn’t. We’re aware of it and ultimately we move things around,” Hegseth said, when asked about measures the US military is taking to protect assets following Iran’s destruction of aHe added, “One of the biggest principles you learn in the military is to not set patterns, predictable patterns. And so we’re, commanders are working hard to adjust in real time with those systems and make sure they’re in the right places and not easily targetable.”by providing intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft. Sources previously told CNN that the US also has intelligence suggesting that China may be preparing to provide Iran with financial assistance, spare parts and missile components.Authorities in Italy prohibited a US aircraft bound for the Middle East from landing at a military base in Sicily, according to Italian media. Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto denied a US request for aircraft to use the Sigonella base that was received when they planes were already in the air, state broadcaster RAI reported on Tuesday. “No one had requested authorization or consulted the Italian military leadership,” RAI said. “The plan had been communicated while the aircraft were already in flight, and checks revealed that these were not normal or logistical flights and therefore not covered by the treaty with Italy,” the broadcaster added. An Italian defense ministry spokesperson confirmed the reports to CNN, but declined to comment further.authorize the use of its military bases or airspace for any activity relating to the US and the Israeli joint offensive in Iran, calling it “profoundly illegal.”US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he visited US Central Command over the weekend and met with troops, though he declined to share which bases he traveled to. Hegseth said during his visit, two missiles were successfully shot down. He added that he spoke to members of the US Air Force and Navy, some of whom “had just returned from the skies of Iran.” “I asked each young American, what do you need? And nobody said better equipment, nobody said more comfortable living conditions, nobody said, ‘Send me home.’ Well, of course, eventually we want all those things. They do too,” Hegseth said. “But what those Americans said to me — young and old, officer and NCO , male and female, Black and White — was, ‘Let’s finish the mission. Get us even more bombs, bigger bombs, more targets. Let us finish this.’”“This new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last,” Hegseth said. “President Trump will make a deal. He is willing, and the terms of the deal are known to them.” But if Iran is not willing to abide by those terms, Hegseth added, the US military “will continue with even more intensity.”, the son of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was elevated to the position his father held for nearly four decades after the elder Khamenei’s death in US-Israeli air strikes. But Khamenei has not yet been seen publicly since the start of the war. While the US government says it is conducting talks with leaders in Iran,The pair last held a public briefing about the war effort on March 19. We’ll bring you any significant updates as and when we get them, and you can watch it via the livestream at the top of this page.King Charles’ first state visit to the United States will go ahead next month despite calls for the trip to be delayed over objections to the Iran war. Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday that King Charles and Queen Camilla are making the trip across the Atlantic on the advice of the UK government and at the invitation of US President Donald Trump. “Their Majesties’ programme will celebrate the historic connections and modern bilateral relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States, marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence,” the palace said. Although the visit wasn’t confirmed until today, the King’s trip to Washington this spring has been widely speculated in British media for weeks.whether it would be wise for Charles to continue with the visit, with some calling for the trip to be scrapped or postponed, as the conflict in the Middle East enters its second month.UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated his position on Monday, saying, “This is not our war and we’re not going to get drawn into it.” “What we have done is taken defensive action: so we’ve had our pilots up in the air since an hour or two after this war started, defending British lives, British interests and, of course, our allies in the region,” Starmer said, according to Britain’s PA Media news agency. After the King’s trip to the US, Charles will travel on to Bermuda for his first visit as a monarch to a British Overseas Territory, the palace also said.President Donald Trump took to social media this morning to once again criticize European countries for not stepping up more in the war in Iran. One post on Truth Social Tuesday morning demanded the UK go to the Strait of Hormuz and “just TAKE IT” and said countries would need “to start learning how to fight for yourself.” “All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil,” he said.European Council President António Costa said he called for de-escalation and restraint during a phone call with Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday. “Today, in my phone call with the president of Iran, @DrPezeshkian, I urged for de-escalation and restraint, the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, and the need for all parties to fully respect international law,” Costa wrote in aHe expressed regret for the loss of life throughout the conflict, saying he’d called on Iran to stop its attacks on countries in the Middle East. “To de-escalate the situation, I urged Iran to stop the unacceptable attacks on countries in the region and to engage positively on the diplomatic track, notably with the UN to ensure the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,” he wrote.Qatar said on Tuesday that the future of the Strait of Hormuz is “primarily a regional” one that needs to be resolved by “regional consensus.” “It has been clear from day one that leaders in the Gulf region have sent clear messages regarding making the region a party in any future agreement about the safety of the region, which includes of course the Strait of Hormuz,” Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari told a news conference. Responding to a journalist’s question about reports that US President Donald Trump may try to end the war with Iran without reopening the key waterway, Al-Ansari said: “It is an international issue, in the sense that the whole world is affected by it, but it is primarily a regional issue that needs regional consensus.”reported on Monday that Trump told aides he’s willing to end the US military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed.The damage appeared to be from a cluster munition, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told CNN. Israeli security forces and rescue teams inspect a site struck by an Iranian missile in Petah Tikva, Israel on Tuesday.Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children look at the damage inside a house following an Iranian strike over Bnei Brak in central Israel on Tuesday.Countries in the Persian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have reported the interception of several missiles and drones today.A fire broke out on a Kuwaiti oil tanker off the coast of Dubai after it was hit by a reported in the early hours of this morning that four ballistic missiles launched toward the Riyadh region were intercepted and destroyed. Some hours later, debris from an intercepted drone fell on six houses in a neighborhood in the Al-Kharj Governorate,, citing the country’s Civil Defense. The country has also shot down drones and missiles throughout the day, its defense ministry has said in updates“I think it’s going to go much higher,” Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, told CNN in a phone interview. McNally, a former energy adviser to President George W. Bush, said oil prices will likely keep rising if the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively shut by Iran. “I wouldn’t bet my life on it, but there are good chances” gas prices take out the 2022 record high of $5.02 per gallon, McNally said. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 sent gas prices above $5 a gallon, contributing to the worst inflation in four decades. Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, told CNN gas prices are not done rising and he expects at least another 10-cent jump in the coming days. “What’s really scary is not what’s happening here in the US but that we’re already seeing rationing happening in less developed countries,” Lipow said. Of course, oil and gasoline prices could crash back to earth if a settlement is reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and ease security fears in the region.Portraits of Hezbollah's late leaders Hassan Nasrallah, right, and his cousin, Hashem Safieddine, are seen, as smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon on Monday.Israel’s defense minister reiterated plans to keep control of parts of southern Lebanon after the current operation there ends, saying the military will “position itself in a security zone” inside the country and “maintain security control” over the entire area up to the Litani River, some 15 to 20 miles north of the Israeli border. Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a video statement on Tuesday that Israeli forces are currently operating in southern Israel, where they “are entering the villages with great force, using all means, clearing them of Hezbollah militants, destroying the terrorist infrastructure established there and the weapons, and demolishing houses that are effectively used as Hezbollah outposts.” “At the end of the operation, the IDF will position itself in a security zone inside Lebanon—along the defensive line against anti-tank missiles—and will maintain security control over the entire area up to the Litani River,” he added. Katz also reiterated that the more than 600,000 residents of southern Lebanon who were evacuated would be “completely prohibited south of the Litani until the safety and security of northern Israeli residents is ensured, and all houses in villages near the border in Lebanon will be destroyed – according to the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza – in order to permanently remove border-area threats from the residents of the north.” Katz has previously compared the plan Israel has for southern Lebanon with what it did in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza. The two large cities were mostly destroyed in Israel’s war on Hamas and the IDF has maintained presence there even after the ceasefire.Three Chinese vessels have recently passed through the Strait of Hormuz, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday, alluding to coordination with Iranian authorities. “After coordination with relevant parties, three Chinese ships recently transited the Strait of Hormuz. We express appreciation for the assistance of relevant parties,” Mao said in a news conference. “The Strait of Hormuz and waters nearby are an important route for international goods and energy trade. China calls for an immediate end to hostilities to restore peace and stability in the Gulf.”if they coordinate with Iran. Some vessels with ties to Iran, China, India and Pakistan have made it through the strait in recent days. Iranian officials have also said they will charge fees for the safe passage of some tankers through the strait. Those comments came after Lloyd’s List Intelligence released aSeveral cars have caught fire after being struck by missile fragments that fell in central Israel after a new barrage was fired by Iran.There were reports of debris falling at various sites in the Tel Aviv district, a police spokesperson said. “Search and rescue forces… are on their way to sites in central Israel where reports of impact have been received,” said the Israel Defense Forces earlier.The damage appeared to be from a cluster munition, an IDF spokesperson told CNN. Iran had earlier claimed to have fired a new wave of missiles towards Israel.Human Rights Watch has described Iran’s reported attempts to recruit children as young 12 for military and security related tasks as a “war crime”. “The military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when the children are under 15,” The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is reportedly trying to enlist civilians - including minors - to provide “cooking services and medical care, distribute items, and deal with damaged homes”. They are also being called on to carry out security-based duties such as “staffing checkpoints, operational patrols, intelligence patrols, and vehicle convoys,” according to HRW. “There is no excuse for a military recruitment drive that targets children to sign up, much less 12-year-olds,” said Bill Van Esveld, associate director in the children’s rights division of HRW. “What this boils down to is that Iranian authorities are apparently willing to risk children’s lives for some extra manpower.”Iranian officials described the campaign as a way to mobilize public assistance and draw on citizens’ abilities across several fields, including defense-related tasks, logistical support and relief work.of “two children, a boy and a girl, alongside two adults, including a man in a military uniform,” HRW said.A desalination plant on Iran’s Qeshm Island has been taken out of service in an airstrike, according to semi-official media outlet ISNA, citing an Iranian health ministry official. “Drinking water on Qeshm Island is supplied by desalination plants. Unfortunately, one of the island’s desalination facilities was targeted and has been fully taken offline, as it cannot be repaired in the short term,” said the head of Iran’s Ministry of Health’s Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, according to ISNA. The island of Qeshm, separated from the Iranian mainland by the Clarence Strait, makes up part of what researchers have calledfor drinking water. Early in the conflict, Bahraini officials said an Iranian drone had damaged a desalination plant, although the attack had not affected water supplies. And Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed on March 7 that the US hit the same desalination plant on Iran’s Qeshm Island. The US denied involvement in that attack.Parents in Tehran danced and played music to try and distract their children from thunderous bombing overnight, after the Israeli military launched another wave of attacks on the Iranian capital. One resident recalled “really intense” bombardment last night, as windows broke loose and partially shattered onto an apartment. “The kids were still awake so we had to play music, pretend to dance around and try to drown out the sound as much as we could,” they told CNN, speaking on the condition of anonymity for their safety. “I don’t know how much longer we can live like this.” As the US-Israeli assault on Iran is enters it second month, human rights advocates are repeating warnings to warring parties to protect civilian infrastructure under international law. Israeli forces unleashed another barrage of strikes on Tehran overnight, the military said. At least 14 people were killed in Iran the past 24 hours alone, according to state media, including three children in the city of Mahallat, about 200 miles south of Tehran. Another Iranian described the strikes as repeating “over and over again.” “You think it’s over… Once you hit a spot there’s no reason to come back,” they told CNN. “But they bomb the same place again, a couple days later sometimes.”
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