Iran-US war live: Trump extends pause on energy plant strikes by 10 days

Kuwait this morning stated it shot down Iranian drones in an assault focusing on the small, oil-rich nation.

The United Arab Emirates sounded a missile alert over Dubai across the identical time, although there was no sound of an interception heard within the city-state as rain blanketed it.

Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff advised a cupboard assembly earlier there have been “robust indicators” that Tehran was prepared to barter, confirming publicly for the primary time that Washington had handed a 15-point “motion record” to Tehran via Pakistani officers.

“We are going to see the place issues lead, and if we will persuade Iran that that is the inflection level with no good options for them, aside from extra dying and destruction,” Mr Witkoff stated.

The US president yesterday pushed again his deadline for strikes on Iran’s vitality property to six April, saying the transfer got here following a request from Tehran and that talks on ending the struggle had been “going very nicely”.

“As per Iranian Authorities request… I’m pausing the interval of Power Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Japanese Time,” he posted.

Iran has despatched a letter to the UN over claims that the nation’s international minister and parliament speaker had been “targets for assassination”.

The letter, dated Thursday and signed by ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, centered on media reviews that international minister Abbas Araghchi and speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf each had been spared in the interim by Israel and the US as negotiations to succeed in a ceasefire within the struggle go on.

“The reviews point out the existence of an operational framework considering the assassination of the highest-ranking political officers of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the letter learn.

It added that “the conditional nature of the purported ‘suspension’ additional underscores that the menace stays actual, deliberate and ongoing”.The letter known as any such programme “state-sponsored terrorism”.

US Central Command has shared pictures of apparatus utilized in its navy marketing campaign towards Iran, which it has dubbed “Operation Epic Fury”.

US Senator Richard Blumenthal has stated he thinks President Donald Trump is leaning towards placing boots on the bottom in Iran.

“I might say the dynamic is towards troops on the bottom as a result of the President of United States by no means sends armed forces to a area with out some plan to make use of them”, the Connecticut Democrat advised CNN.

The Pentagon is contemplating sending one other 10,000 troops to the Center East, The Wall Road Journal has reported, on high of the 1000’s of service members which have reportedly already been dispatched to the area.

Oil costs fell in early commerce this morning after US president Donald Trump stated talks with Iran to finish the struggle had been going “very nicely” ​and introduced he would pause assaults on the nation’s vitality vegetation for 10 days.

Brent ‌futures fell 90 cents, or 0.8%, to $107.11 per barrel, whereas US West Texas Intermediate futures misplaced 83 cents, or 0.88 per cent, to $93.65 per barrel.

The autumn additionally comes after Mr Trump stated Iran allowed 10 oil tankers to move via the Strait of Hormuz this week as a “current” to the US.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio spoke with Kurdistan Regional Authorities (KRG) prime minister Masrour Barzani, the state division stated, including ⁠he expressed “gratitude” to KRG for enabling oil from Iraq, together with from Iraq’s Kurdistan, to succeed in world markets.

The Iran struggle has raised ⁠oil costs and shaken world markets.

The state division stated Mr ​Rubio “provided ⁠his condolences to the households ‌of the Peshmerga killed in an Iranian missile assault on 24 March and wished a speedy restoration to ‌these injured.”

Not less than six Kurdish Peshmerga fighters ‌had been killed and 30 wounded in a rocket assault on their base north of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Peshmerga assertion stated ⁠on Tuesday.

Patrick Murphy, a former democratic US congressman and Military veteran, has reacted to President Donald Trump droning on about pens throughout a Cupboard assembly Thursday because the nation is at struggle towards Iran.

“It’s infuriating for these of us who put on the fabric of our nation…are you actually going to spend 5 minutes speaking a couple of rattling pen?” Murphy advised CNN.

Watch Trump’s ramblings about pens right here:

Matt Gaetz, former Florida congressman turned One America Information Community host, stated Thursday a floor invasion of Iran will make the US “poorer and fewer secure”.

“A floor invasion of Iran will make our nation poorer and fewer secure. It would imply increased fuel costs, increased meals costs. And I am unsure we might find yourself killing extra terrorists than we might create”, Gaetz stated on the primary day of the Conservative Political Motion Convention.

Oil costs have surged for the reason that US and Israel started placing Iran greater than three weeks in the past. Iran has successfully closed off the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that carries a couple of fifth of the world’s oil.

Senator John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, believes the US ought to finish the struggle in Iran, telling reporters, “It is time to come residence”, per CBS Information.

When requested how quickly he’d wish to see the US exit the struggle, Kennedy stated, “I can’t reply that as a result of I don’t know to what extent we have completed our mission”.

In an replace Wednesday, Admiral Brad Cooper, the chief of U.S. Central Command, stated American forces have hit greater than 10,000 navy targets for the reason that struggle started greater than three weeks in the past.