US Iran war updates highlights: Tehran vows ‘swift response’ after US seizes vessel in Gulf of Oman

US Iran war updates LIVE: United States President Donald Trump has said that the second round of talks with Iran will be held on Monday in Pakistan.

Trump said that US representatives were headed to Islamabad, adding that they would be there on Monday evening for negotiations.

US Iran war updates LIVE: US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would get a peace deal “the nice or the hard war.”

“It will happen. One way or another. The nice way or the hard way. It’s going to happen. You can quote me.” Trump told ABC reporter Jonathan Karl.

US Iran war updates LIVE: United States President Donald Trump on Sunday told ABC reporter Jonathan Karl that Iran had violated the ceasefire terms with US.

This comes after Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz again, issuing warnings to ships looking to transit through it. Iran's state media reported that this was owing to the US blockade of Iranian ports.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Turkey on Sunday accused Israel of using the US-Iran negotiations as a “distraction” to create fait accompli.

“The ongoing Iran-United States negotiations seem to be overshadowing this situation (in Lebanon). Israel appears to be trying to take advantage of this distraction to create a fait accompli,” Turkey's foreign minister Hakan Fidan said, AFP reported.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran has reopened six airports, including Tehran's Imam Khomeini, Mashhad, Birjand, Gorgan and Zahedan, Reuters news agency cited the country's state media as reporting.

International flights will resume from Mashhad airport on Monday, the state media reported.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran's armed forces prevented two tankers from transiting through the Strait of Hormuz by issuing warnings, thus forcing them to turned back, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

Tasnim said that this was due to the continuous US blockade of Iranian ports, according to AFP. The vessels, sailing under the flags of Botswana and Angola, were forced to change course.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Turkey's foreign minister Hakan Fidan has said that the talks between Iran and US are “largely complete", adding that ceasefire would need to be extended owing to a couple of disagreements, Reuters news agency reported.

However, Fidan said that both sides had the will to continue talks.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Sunday said the speed of replenishing launchers during the ceasefire is greater than it was prior to the war, Reuters news agency reported.

US-Iran had agreed on a two-week truce which ends on April 22.

US Iran war updates LIVE: With the Strait of Hormuz closed again, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said US and Iran were still “far from the final discussion.”

In a televised address Saturday, Ghalibaf said that while there had been “progress”, “there are many gaps and some fundamental points remain”, AFP reported.

US Iran war updates LIVE: A senior Iran has flagged US' refusal to abandon “maximalist” demands, amid uncertainty over talks between both countries, the Associated Press reported.

Iran deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh also told AP that Tehran would not be giving up its enriched uranium to the US, rejecting US President Donald Trump's remarks.

US Iran war updates LIVE: With the Strait of Hormuz again at a near standstill after it was reopened, International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol has proposed a new oil pipeline linking Iraq’s Basra oil fields and Turkey’s Mediterranean oil terminal in Ceyhan, according to Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

This would shift the balance away from Hormuz. “I believe a Basra–Ceyhan pipeline could be extremely attractive and a very important project for both Iraq and Turkey, as well as for regional supply security—especially from Europe’s perspective,” Hürriyet cited Birol as saying, according to a Bloomberg report.

US Iran war updates LIVE: With the shipping in the Strait of Hormuz at a near standstill on Sunday, threatening to deepen the energy crisis and affecting the global economy.

Hormuz served as the waterway for a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas before the US-Iran war. However, Iran reversed its decision to reopen the waterway, firing the vessels attempting to pass, and warning it would block transits as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained. According to a Bloomberg report, the closure of the transit route will also undermine expectations of an imminent peace deal between US and Iran.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Negotiations between Iran and the US will be held next week, likely be held before Friday, Al Jazeera reported, citing two Pakistani security sources.

The report said that wo US heavy airlift aircraft, C-17 Globemasters, have landed at Noor Khan Airbase in Rawalpindi and roads from the airport to Islamabad’s Red Zone have been temporarily closed, indicating heightened security arrangements

Serena and Marriott hotels in Islamabad are being cleared of guests with no new bookings allowed until Friday, the report added.

Last round of talks between April 11 and 12 was held at Serena hotel.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran's deputy minister of science, research and technology, Mehdi Abtahi, said that access to the international internet for Tehran's academic community would be restored gradually, starting with university professors, reported Iran International.

Abtahi said the ministry had already taken measures to provide internet access to professors based on an existing list, adding that the move would gradually be extended to all faculty-members.

US Iran war updates LIVE: There were no casualties on the two Indian crude oil ships that came under fire by the Iranian navy, officials confirmed on Sunday, even as they said that the glass of one of the cabins on the ships was shattered in the incident, and Indian authorities have made it clear to Tehran that there will be consequences to such an act. It is understood that there’s a discrepancy between the stance of the Iranian diplomatic mission in India and that of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) regarding the incident. Sources said that the IRGC wants to levy a toll on all ships passing the Strait of Hormuz amid a conflict with the US and Israel, even as the Indian authorities are not willing to give in to any such demands.

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US Iran war updates LIVE: An employee of the Emirates Airlines is in a Dubai jail since March 8 for publishing photos of Iran's attacks, Tasnim news agency reported, citing Detention in Dubai organisation. The 32-year-old employee was arrested in the early hours of March 8, the report said, adding that he is lodged at the Al Qusais Police Station. Apprehensions are being made that he may be transferred to Abu Dhabi, where he could face a longer detention period and harsher penalties if convicted.

US Iran war updates LIVE: US President Donald Trump has no justification to deprive Iran of its nuclear rights, the Iranian Student News Agency quoted Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian as saying on Sunday, as Washington and Tehran continue to face disagreements over nuclear issues.

"Trump says Iran cannot make use of its nuclear rights but doesn't say for what crime. Who is he to deprive a nation of its rights?" Pezeshkian was quoted as saying.

US Iran war updates LIVE: ): Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has highlighted what he described as the Islamic Republic's growing military capability, claiming that its forces neutralised around 180 drones and targeted a US F-35 stealth fighter jet.

According to reports by Al Jazeera, citing Iran's Mizan News Agency, Ghalibaf made the remarks while briefing officials on the current status of indirect negotiations with Washington.

The Speaker said the reported engagement with the advanced stealth aircraft reflected deliberate planning and technical capability."Hitting the F-35 is not a one-off event; it is an operation across various dimensions of technical and design capabilities," Ghalibaf asserted in comments released by the Mizan News Agency, the judiciary's formal media wing.

He added that the incident was meant to signal Iran's progress in defence technology. "The missile that exploded near the F-35 made the enemy realise what capabilities we possess and in what direction we are heading," he said.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran’s parliamentary Speaker Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as long as the US imposes a naval blockade on Iran.

“It is impossible for others to pass through the Strait of Hormuz while we cannot,” he said in televised comments aired by Iranian semiofficial media late Saturday.

Qalibaf, who is Iran’s chief negotiator with the United States, said that the strait is now under Iran’s control, linking the choke point’s reopening to the US lifting of its blockade.

“If the US does not lift the blockade, traffic in the Strait of Hormuz will definitely be restricted,” he said.

He said that the ceasefire was on verge of collapse when the US attempted to mine-clear the strait.

He said Iran viewed the US attempt as a violation of the ceasefire.

“The situation escalated to the point of conflict but the enemy retreated,” he said.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Britain's government is set to announce legislation next month to move the country closer to the European Union, as the Iran war sours the UK's so-called special relationship with the United States.

President Donald Trump's unpredictability and stream of insults towards America's historic ally is adding impetus to Prime Minister Keir Starmer's bid to deepen ties with the 27-nation bloc, a decade after Britons narrowly voted to leave the EU.

"We have a government that is already eager to move closer towards the EU, and the events in Iran provide an opportunity to speed up that process," Evie Aspinall, director of the British Foreign Policy Group think-tank, told AFP.

Starmer's administration is preparing an EU "reset" bill that will give ministers powers to align UK standards with EU single market rules as they evolve -- something called "dynamic alignment".

US Iran war updates LIVE: Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has claimed that US President Donald Trump is ‘requesting ceasefire’. “Sometimes I hear from the dear people and even the national media saying that we have destroyed all their military power, so let's move forward and destroy the rest, and not negotiate; we must certainly have the upper hand on the battlefield, and that's precisely why Trump is requesting a ceasefire,” Ghalibaf said in a video posted by Iran's Mizan News Agency.

US Iran war updates LIVE: A French soldier was killed and three others wounded in an ambush on Saturday on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon that France's president blamed on Hezbollah, an accusation the group denied.

Israel's military reported that two of its soldiers had also been killed in combat in southern Lebanon since the start of a 10-day truce on Friday between Israel and Lebanon.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned that any attempt to pass through the strait without permission "will be considered cooperation with the enemy, and the offending vessel will be targeted".

A handful of oil and gas tankers crossed the strait early on Saturday during the brief reopening, tracking data showed, but others retreated and hardly any vessels were crossing the waterway by the late afternoon.

A UK maritime security agency said the Revolutionary Guards fired at one tanker, while security intelligence firm Vanguard Tech reported the force had threatened to "destroy" an empty cruise ship that was fleeing the Gulf.

In a third incident, the UK agency said it received a report of a vessel "being hit by an unknown projectile, which caused damage" to shipping containers but no fire.

The Indian foreign ministry said it had summoned the Iranian ambassador to lodge a protest over a "shooting incident" involving two Indian-flagged ships in the strait.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem asserted on Saturday that the current 10-day truce with Israel cannot be a unilateral arrangement.

According to a report by Al Jazeera, Qassem vowed that his fighters are prepared to retaliate against any Israeli strikes targeting Lebanese territory.

In his initial response on Saturday to the ceasefire brokered by the United States, Qassem characterised the diplomatic process as "an insult to our country and our homeland, Lebanon, that America dictates its text and speaks on behalf of the Lebanese government."

These remarks follow a significant diplomatic development in Washington, where ambassadors from Lebanon and Israel held meetings ahead of anticipated direct negotiations, the first such talks between the two nations in decades.

US Iran war updates LIVE: Pakistan has started making security arrangements for the US-Iran peace talks, though no dates have been officially announced. CNN on Friday reported that the talks were scheduled to be held in Islamabad on Monday. However, there has been no official confirmation on it.

The US and Iran held rare direct talks in Pakistan on April 11 and 12 aimed at ending their conflict, but the talks ended without any agreement.

Pakistan re-launched its diplomatic efforts to facilitate another round of talks in Islamabad for a final agreement to end the war between Washington and Tehran.