Live updates: Iran and Israel vow to keep fighting as markets react as Trump says war should end

A ship was likely attacked by Iran in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, off the coast of the United Arab Emirates capital, according to a notice from the British Army’s Maritime Trade Authority.

A day after President Trump issued a new warning to Iran to stop inhibiting the flow of crude oil through the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping route, the apparent attack on the bulk carrier not far west of the Strait’s western entrance could signal an expansion of the Islamic Republic’s attacks on shipping in the region.

The UK’s Maritime Trade Operations center said a captain aboard the cargo ship reported seeing “a splash and heard a loud bang very close” to the ship, which was not immediately identified.

Iran launched new attacks on Arab Gulf countries on Tuesday as it maintains pressure on the region.

Incoming missile sirens sounded early in the morning in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates and in Bahrain, as Saudi Arabia said it had destroyed two drones over its oil-rich eastern region and Kuwait’s National Guard said it had shot down six drones.

An Iranian drone strike hit a residential building in Bahrain’s capital Manama overnight, killing a 29-year-old woman and wounding eight other people, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

The UAE Ministry blamed the deaths on “flagrant Iranian aggression against a residential building in Manama.”

Iran has repeatedly attacked Bahrain, which hosts the US Fifth Fleet.

Israeli strikes also hit southern and eastern Lebanon overnight, state media reported Tuesday, as Israel targets the Lebanese group Hezbollah, a powerful proxy for Iran.

In addition to firing missiles and drones at Israel and US bases in the region, Iran has been attacking energy infrastructure which, combined with its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, caused oil prices to soar earlier this week.

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The United Arab Emirates said its consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil came under drone attack on Tuesday, after Iran vowed to continue its attacks against US interests and allies in the region.

“The United Arab Emirates has strongly condemned and denounced the unprovoked terrorist drone attack that targeted the Consulate General of the United Arab Emirates in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which caused property damage with no reported injuries,” the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, adding that “such acts represent a dangerous escalation and a threat to regional security and stability.”

The Kurdistan Regional Government of the semi-autonomous Iraqi region also issued a statement strongly condemning what it called illegal attacks against civilians, civil institutions and diplomatic missions, citing the overnight attack on the United Arab Emirates mission.

The US military has a significant number of troops and equipment deployed at bases at Erbil International Airport and on the outskirts of the city, and there is also a US consulate in the city. US bases have been attacked by Iranian drones since the war began, but there have been no casualties.

“I don’t think talking to the Americans is on our agenda anymore,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told PBS News on Monday, stating that Tehran had a “very bitter experience” during previous negotiations with the US.

Iran has responded to attacks by the United States and Israel with drone and missile attacks against Israel and the interests of the United States and the Arab Gulf States throughout the region. Maritime traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which almost 20% of the world’s crude oil usually transits, has practically stopped.

Iranian forces have repeatedly attacked oil tankers passing through the strategic waterway since the war began.

In the interview with PBS News, Araghchi insisted that Iran was acting in “self-defense,” and insisted that the Islamic Republic was “prepared to continue attacking them with our missiles for as long as it takes and as long as it takes.”

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Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mocked President Trump’s apparent attempt to lessen the economic impact of the war, warning: “The Iranian military… will not allow the export of a single liter of oil from the region to the hostile side and its partners until further notice.”

“It is we who will determine the end of the war,” the IRGC, considered close to Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mokhtaba Khamenei, said in a statement carried by Iranian state media. “The equations and future status of the region are now in the hands of our military. American forces will not end the war.”

Trump indicated Monday that he would decide when the war would end and threatened to hit Iran “TWENTY TIMES HARDER than what they’ve gotten so far” if it continues to block the flow of crude oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel’s military offensive against Iran is “not over yet,” saying the operation was degrading Iran’s clerical leadership.

“Our aspiration is to get the Iranian people to throw off the yoke of tyranny; it is ultimately up to them. But there is no doubt that with the actions taken so far, we are breaking their bones, and we are not done yet,” Netanyahu said during a visit to the National Health Command Center on Monday night, according to a statement released Tuesday.

Netanyahu’s rhetoric came after slightly contradictory signals from the Trump administration. President Trump said Monday that the war was “going to be over soon” and that the United States’ goals were “pretty complete.”

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President Trump said he is the only one in his administration who has suggested that Iran bombed a girls’ school “because I just don’t know enough about it.”

A preliminary American assessment suggests that the United States was ‘probable’ responsible for deadly attack but he did not intentionally target the school and may have hit it by mistake, a person briefed on the preliminary intelligence told News themezone.

“It’s something I’m told is under investigation,” Trump said. “But Tomahawks are used by others… Many other nations have Tomahawks. They buy them from us.”

Trump said he would accept “anything” the investigation shows.

“I’m willing to live with that report,” he said.

Without providing evidence, the president had said Saturday that the United States believes the bombing “was carried out by Iran” and cited information he had seen.

President Trump warned Iran not to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial point for the global oil industry, as the war with Iran has virtually paralyzed shipping traffic in the strait, causing oil prices to soar since the war began.

“If Iran does anything to stop the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz, the United States of America will hit them TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit so far,” he said on his Truth Social platform. “In addition, we will eliminate easily destructible targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to rebuild as a nation again. Death, fire and fury will reign upon them. But I hope and pray that does not happen!”

Trump has repeatedly threatened to intensify attacks against Iran if it disturbs the Strait of Hormuz, which lies between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula and through which approximately 20% of the world’s oil circulates. Earlier Monday, he told News themezone he was considering taking over the waterway.

Vice President JD Vance participated in a transfer worthy of Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, the seventh US service member to die in the US-Iran conflict.

Vance flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to receive Pennington’s remains. The vice president was seen saluting during the ceremony, along with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.

Pennington, 26-year-old Kentucky native was assigned to the 1st Space Battalion in Colorado. He was wounded during a March 1 attack on a base in Saudi Arabia and died from his wounds a week later, according to the Pentagon.

A fitting transfer took place last weekend for six more American service members who died. President Trump present.