Iran-US war latest: Trump ‘not ready’ for ceasefire with Iran as Israel orders evacuations in Lebanon

Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar has denied reports that the military asked the United States for support after running low on interceptors.

Asked at a press conference about reports of discussions with Lebanon as well as the reports about interceptors, Saar said: “For the two questions, the answer is no.”

“We want to remove the existential threats from Iran for the long term. We don’t want to go every year to another war,” he told reporters.

A fragment of an Iranian missile struck a residential building used by the U.S. consul in Israel, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

The reports did not immediately provide further details on the incident.

Dozens of people have been accused of sharing sensitive information with Israel, local media reported on Sunday.

In northwestern Iran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that 20 people were arrested on accusations by the provincial prosecutor’s office of sending location details on Iran’s military and security assets to Israel.

Northeastern Iran, which has remained relatively untouched by air strikes, saw the arrest of 10 people on Sunday, with some accused of collecting information on sensitive locations and economic infrastructure.

“As the Zionist enemy (Israel) and the U.S. are attempting to invade Iran, they simultaneously activate mercenaries and spies to carry out riots as the next step,” a provincial branch of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence organisation said, according to Tasnim.

The Student News Network also reported on Sunday that three people were detained in the western province of Lorestan for “seeking to disturb public opinion (…) and burn mourning symbols.”

Israel has begun attacking checkpoints on the ground using information from local Iranians.

Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre has expressed his concern about a lack of strategy in the US-Israeli war on Iran.

“The plan over the Iran war seems pretty unclear,” he said on Sunday.

He added that he was “concerned that there seems to be an escalation.”

Clouds of toxic smoke unleashed into the atmosphere by US-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian oil facilities made a dangerous return to Earth in the form of “black rain,” prompting international health officials to warn of serious risks to the public.

Residents in Tehran complained last week of burning eyes and difficulty breathing when the dark and oily precipitation fell near the Iranian capital after several fuel oil depots and a refinery were struck.

Plumes of dark smoke have also been seen across other parts of the region over two weeks of war, as Iran retaliates against US-Israeli airstrikes by firing drones and missiles at the oil and natural gas facilities of its Persian Gulf neighbors.

Rain washes hazardous chemicals out of the atmosphere in a relatively short period of time, experts said, but people exposed to black rain should take precautions to avoid short- and long-term health risks.

Foreign minister Gideo Saar has said that Israel is not planning on holding any talks with the Lebanese government in the coming days as it continued to bomb southern Lebanon and Beirut.

It had previously threatened to take over parts of the territory due to what it said were threats from Hezbollah and the government’s inability to deal with the group.

He added of the ongoing conflict: “We share a decisiveness with the US to continue the war with Iran until we achieve our goals.”

Despite refusing to talk to the Lebanese government, he said Israel expects the government to “take serious steps to stop Hezbollah from shooting at Israel.”

On Sunday, the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to several neighbourhoods in southern Lebanon and Beirut.

Health officials say at least 826 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since 2 March.

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has said that the country’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in “good health” and “fully controlling the situation” according to an interview with Alaraby Aljadeed.

He welcomed any attempts to end the war but said “there is no particular initiative on the table so far to end the war”.

The second-oldest son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed on 28 February was appointed new supreme leader after his death. He has not appeared in public since the appointment and his first state broadcast was read by a presenter on 12 March.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the leader was “not alive” while US secretary of war Pete Hegseth said he had been “disfigured”.