US Iran War highlights: Israel, Lebanon to hold talks on Tuesday; Iran delegation arrives in Pak for peace talks with US

US Iran War LIVE Updates: US President Donald Trump on Friday posted “WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL RESET!!! President DJT” on Truth Social ahead of the peace talks with Iran set to be held in Islamabad.

Meanwhile vice president JD Vance left for Pakistan and said that Trump has given him clear guidelines for the negotiations, while also warning Tehran against trying to “play” the United States.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: US Vice President JD Vance left for Pakistan on Friday. Boarding Air Force Two on his way to Pakistan, the vice president said, “We’re looking forward to the negotiation. I think it’s gonna be positive. We’ll of course see.”

He cited Trump in saying, “If the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we’re certainly willing to extend the open hand.” But he added, “If they’re gonna try and play us, then they’re gonna find that the negotiating team is not that receptive.”

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Lebanese official media said Israeli strikes on Friday in the southern city of Nabatiyeh killed eight members of the country's State Security agency.

The state-run National News Agency said "enemy warplanes launched a series of heavy strikes" on the city, including one in the vicinity of the Nabatiyeh government building that hit the nearby State Security office, killing at least eight of its personnel.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Israel and Lebanon have no formal diplomatic relations and have technically been in a state of war since Israel's founding in 1948.

Israel and Lebanon held US-brokered talks in 2022 that led to a bilateral agreement establishing a maritime boundary between the two countries. In December 2025, the two sides held indirect talks with the US in Naqoura, in southern Lebanon, to try to solidify the deal that ended the 2024 Israel-Hezbollah fighting.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: An Iranian delegation is expected to arrive in Islamabad on Friday night, officials in Pakistan’s capital told Bloomberg, ahead of crucial peace talks with the US set for Saturday.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf will lead the delegation, one of the people said.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: While the Pakistan government has not confirmed the venue, the Serena Hotel, located next to the foreign ministry in the capital's high-security Red Zone, asked its guests to clear out on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

The same day authorities in the capital announced a two-day public holiday on Thursday and Friday.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Vice President JD Vance said on Friday he was looking forward to having positive negotiations with Iran as he left for talks in Pakistan with a warning to Tehran not to “play us.”

"As the president of the United States said, if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we're certainly willing to extend the open hand," Vance said. "If they're going to try to play us, then they're going to find the negotiating team is not that receptive," he said.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: US Vice President JD Vance said he is optimistic that upcoming negotiations with Iran will be positive and expressed eagerness ahead of the talks in Islamabad.

He noted that Donald Trump has laid out clear guidelines for the negotiations, while also warning Tehran against trying to “play” the United States. Vance said this as he departed for Pakistan to lead discussions aimed at ending the war

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday called on the Lebanese government to stop giving "free concessions" to Israel, with the two governments due to begin negotiations in Washington next week.

"We will not accept a return to the previous situation, and we call on officials to stop offering free concessions," Qassem said in a written message broadcast on the party's Al-Manar TV, AFP reported.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Visuals from outside the Serena Hotel in Islamabad, where the US and Iranian delegations are expected to meet for a meeting to discuss peace in Lebanon.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Two Israeli officials told Reuters that talks would be held in Washington between Israeli ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, and his Lebanese counterpart, Nada Hamadeh Moawad. One of the officials said the two would meet next week.

In the run-up to the talks, Netanyahu tapped Ron Dermer, a former foreign minister and close confidant, to lead any eventual negotiations with Lebanon, the report said.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Hezbollah said on Friday it had targeted Israel's Ashdod naval base with missiles, two days after deadly Israeli airstrikes on Beirut left more than 300 people dead, AFP reported.

"In response to the enemy's violation of the ceasefire and its repeated attacks on Beirut, and after the Resistance adhered to the ceasefire while the enemy did not, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted... the naval base in the port of Ashdod with missiles," the group said in a statement.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: The majority of ships that have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past day were linked to Iran, ship tracking data showed on Friday, with other vessels putting off making voyages despite a two-week ceasefire agreed this week between Tehran and Washington, according to data and shipping sources.

Three tankers – a crude supertanker that can carry 2 million barrels of oil, a bunkering tanker and smaller oil ship – all left Iranian waters in the past 24 hours, Reuters reported.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Kuwait, said it faced a drone attack Thursday night that it blamed on Iran and its militia allies in the region. Though Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard denied launching any assault, it has carried out attacks across the Mideast in the past that it did not claim, Reuters reported.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Saudi Arabia said a series of attacks on its critical energy infrastructure disrupted oil and gas production and hit supply to global markets that are already reeling from the Iran war.

Production, transportation, refining, petrochemicals and power generation were “recently” targeted in Riyadh, the Eastern Province and Yanbu Industrial City, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said Thursday, citing an energy ministry official.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: The Strait of Hormuz remained shut on Friday and Israel traded fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which the United States and Iran each described as violations of their ceasefire deal on the eve of their first peace talks of the war, Reuters reported.

The two-day-old ceasefire has halted the campaign of US and Israeli air strikes on Iran. But it has so far done nothing to end the blockade of the strait, which has caused the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies, or to calm a parallel war waged by Israel against Iran's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: MEA Official Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Friday said, “We are deeply concerned by reports of a large number of civilian casualties in Lebanon. As a troop contributing country to the UNIFIL that is invested in Lebanon’s peace and security, the direction of events is very disturbing.”

He also said that India has always emphasised the protection of civilians as the foremost priority. "Our Embassy in Lebanon remains in close touch with the Indian community for its safety and security"

US Iran War LIVE Updates: As talks between US-Iran were scheduled in Islamabad, Iranians are viewing the proposed US-Iran talks with a mix of fear, scepticism and uncertainty, doubting whether any ceasefire can turn into lasting peace.

Many told AFP that they feel caught between the risk of renewed war and dissatisfaction with their own government, which they see as becoming more aggressive. While some hope for change, others believe even a successful deal will not improve conditions for ordinary people.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday that he discussed military capabilities and the logistics of moving vessels though the Strait of Hormuz when he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump a day earlier.

"We've been pulling together a coalition of countries ... working on a political, diplomatic plan, but also looking at military capabilities and ... the logistics of actually moving vessels through the Strait," Starmer said during his visit to the Gulf.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Lebanon intends to take part in a meeting next week in Washington with U.S. and Israeli representatives to discuss and announce a ceasefire, a senior Lebanese official told Reuters on Friday, saying the exact date had not yet been confirmed.

The official said Lebanon's position was that a ceasefire was a precondition to further talks to reach a broader deal with Israel.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Since Washington and Tehran agreed to an initial 14-day ceasefire on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and the powerful army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir have been sharing messages about conversations with world leaders, highlighting their role as mediators.

Islamabad isn't often called on to act as an intermediary in high-stakes diplomacy, but it's stepped into the role this time for a number of reasons, both because it has relatively good ties with both Washington and Tehran and because it has a lot at stake in seeing the war resolved.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: The World Health Organization said on Friday it has received assurances that two hospitals in Beirut, Lebanon, featured in an Israeli evacuation order will not be targeted.

The estimated 450 patients inside the Rafik Hariri University Hospital and Al Zahraa hospital in Beirut have not been evacuated because it was not feasible, said Dr Abdinasir Abubakar, the WHO's Representative in Lebanon.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Dubai has restricted foreign airlines to just one daily flight to its airports until May 31 due to the Iran crisis, igniting revenue loss fears among Indian carriers that had planned more flights than airlines from any other country, Reuters reported citing a letter by FIA.

The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), which represents top carriers IndiGo, Air India and SpiceJet, has asked India to push Dubai authorities to lift the curbs and, failing that, to consider reciprocal measures on Dubai carriers including Emirates and flydubai.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: France and Pakistan condemn ‘ceasefire violations’ in Lebanon, according to Al Jazeera.

US Iran War LIVE Updates: Israeli air strikes targeted the towns of Al Shahabiya and Jabal Al Batm in southern Lebanon, according to a report by Al Jazeera.