Iran war news highlights: Trump says Netanyahu will have ‘no choice’ but to accept a deal with Iran

Iran war news LIVE: Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs without warning on Sunday, days after a ceasefire agreement in Washington went into effect and despite a US request not to attack Lebanon 's capital. Lebanon’s health ministry said two people were killed and 20 wounded in the strike on a residential building. (AP)

Iran war news LIVE: Iran's deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi said that regional governments were "not in a position to demand reparations", responding to reports the US could use Iranian assets to compensate regional allies for war-related damages. Gharibabadi added in a post on X that Iran's assets were "neither war spoils for Washington nor a payment fund for its allies".

Iran war news LIVE: Iran's top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday accused the US of not being “committed” to the ceasefire.

“They are neither committed to a ceasefire nor believe in dialogue, and by demonstrating through the naval blockade and violation of agreements regarding Lebanon that they only understand the language of power,” he said in a post on X.

Iran war news LIVE: Hours after Israeli strikes on Beirut suburbs, considered a stronghold of Hezbollah, and US President Donald Trump calling for a “more surgical attack” on the group, Iran's top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf issued a warning.

“The naval blockade against the Iranian nation and America's green light today…. turn American and regime bases and assets in the region into legitimate targets. The hand of our armed forces is open, as always,” Ghalibaf said in a post on X.

Iran war news LIVE: US President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed the idea that launching the war with Iran this year betrayed his refrain of “no new wars”.

“First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Trump told NBC in an interview.

Iran war news LIVE: Hamas’s armed wing announced on Sunday that the attack on central Israel was carried out by one of its fighters, Al Jazeera reported.

“This operation, along with last night’s car-ramming attack, was an act of self-defence and a response to the aggression of the occupation and its settlers,” the Qassam Brigades said in a statement.

Iran war news LIVE: Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei said in a post on X on Sunday that Tehran will give a "painful" response to Israel's attack on Beirut's Dahiyeh southern suburb.

The Israeli military earlier today said it had struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the area.

Iran war news LIVE: US President Donald Trump in an interview with NBC called for a “more surgical attack” on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“I'd like to see Lebanon have a better life. I'd like to see a more surgical attack on Hezbollah. I think it should be more surgical,” Trump said, according to a transcript of the interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," recorded Friday.

Iran war news LIVE: OPEC ministers decided Sunday to increase oil quotas by a total 188,000 barrels per day for July, AFP reported.

The hiked production output was agreed in a video meeting of oil ministers from key OPEC countries Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman, a statement from the organisation said.

Iran war news LIVE: The United States is lobbying other countries on the UN nuclear watchdog's Board of Governors to back a draft resolution ordering Iran to inform the agency of the fate of its bombed nuclear sites and the enriched uranium that was stored there, Reuters news agency reported.

Iran must "provide the Agency with precise information on nuclear material accountancy and safeguarded nuclear facilities in Iran" and "grant the Agency all access it requires to verify this information," the text seen by Reuters said.

Iran war news LIVE: US President Donald Trump on Sunday told NBC he had not asked for Lebanon to be part of the short term deal with Iran. This comes even as Iran has reiterated that a deal should stop fighting on all fronts, including Lebanon.

Iran war news LIVE: US President Donald Trump Sunday rejected lifting any sanctions and unfreezing Iranian assets as part of a ceasefire deal. When asked if these would come after, Trump said, “Comes after, yeah. If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking.”

Iran war news LIVE: Iran could issue a 30-day deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a member of Iran’s negotiating team said in an interview with he country’s semi-official Fars news agency, CNN reported.

“Under this proposal, Tehran should announce that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian administration will only be possible 30 days after all threats from the United States and its allies have been removed,” Majid Shakeri, a member of Iran’s negotiating team during recent Islamabad talks, said.

While Iran has effectively closed Hormuz after the conflict began, the US has imposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports since April.

Iran war news LIVE: The Israeli military on Sunday said it had struck “terrorist” headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs. The strikes targeted a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh, Reuters news agency reported.

The strikes came in response to Hezbollah's fire toward Israeli territory, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement.

Iran war news LIVE: Ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian permission are charged an average fee of between $1.5 and $2 million, Mohsen Zangeneh, a member of the Iranian parliament’s Budget and Planning Commission, said, according to CNN.

Iran has set up a management body called the Persian Gulf Strait Authority which said last week that since it began operations in early May, more than 300 non-Iranian vessels had submitted information to obtain safe passage permits through the Strait, most of them oil tankers. “Revenues collected under the scheme are deposited into the state treasury,” Fars reported Sunday. It said some payments were made in goods and services rather than cash, CNN reported.

Iran has maintained that it has the right to monitor and supervise traffic through the strait, with leaders also bringing up the setting of a toll system for vessels passing through Hormuz.

Iran war news LIVE: Pakistan’s interior minister has delivered a message from Islamabad intended for Iran’s Supreme Leader, according to Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi’s Telegram channel, Al Jazeera reported.

The written message from Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addressed to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was handed over to Iran’s top diplomat.

Iran war news LIVE: The Israeli police Sunday retracted a previous statement wherein they said two suspects were involved in the shooting. They have said that only one person was involved and identified the alleged gunman as coming from the village of Taiybe, Al Jazeera reported.

Iran war news LIVE: OPEC is set to agree on Sunday a fourth increase in oil output targets in as many months, Reuters news agency quoted three OPEC sources as saying. Since the West Asia conflict began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 earlier this year, oil flows via the Strait of Hormuz have dipped significantly.

This has created the world's biggest ever supply crisis as key OPEC members including Saudi Arabia have been unable to supply customers in full since the end of February. The crisis for OPEC deepened when the United Arab Emirates left the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after almost 60 years.

Iran war news LIVE: Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei on Sunday said the US “must understand that they have to recognize Iran’s rights.”

This includes the right to peaceful nuclear enrichment under the international non-proliferation treaty, Baghaei told CNN.

Iran war news LIVE: The Israeli military on Sunday issued an evacuation warning to the residents of Lebanon's Tyre city and its surrounding areas, Reuters news agency reported.

Iran war news LIVE: After a second suspect in the shooting attacks in Israel was “neutralised”, the weapon used in the shooting at the petrol station in Kochav Yair was recovered, Israeli police said in a statement, according to Al Jazeera.

Iran war news LIVE: Israeli air strikes targeted a motorcycle on Zifta Road in the Nabatieh district killing one person in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported.

Two strikes in the Ghamiqah neighbourhood in the town of Duwair destroyed a house, while the city of Nabatieh was also targeted, the National News Agency reported.

Iran war news LIVE: Iran's foreign minister spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei on Sunday told CNN that the main problem in negotiating with the US is Washington’s changing and contradictory positions.

“The main problem of negotiating with this administration is that you have to face so many changing positions, moving the goal posts, different statements, contradictory remarks by different officials, so it makes the whole process very cumbersome,” Baghaei said.

Iran war news LIVE: The Israeli army’s Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, according to a statemen on Telegram, received an initial briefing on the shooting attack in central Israel and issued directives for the continuation of operations in the West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.

l Zamir held a telephone “situational assessment” with commanders while touring the Gaza Strip. The shootings took place in three ⁠separate areas in central Israel close to the ⁠West Bank city ⁠of Qalqilya.

Iran war news LIVE: Pakistan's interior minister Mohsin Naqvi met Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran Sunday, and held dicussions on peace talks with the United States, CNN reported citing Iran media.

Naqvi met with his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni on Saturday night, and said he was in Iran to deliver a message from Pakistani army chief Asim Munir to the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.