Iran-US war latest: Trump to deliver prime-time address Wednesday as he claims conflict will be over in ‘two to three weeks’

High oil prices have caused gas prices to skyrocket. Grocery prices will also go up since it takes fuel to grow produce, raise livestock and drive food to stores and restaurants.

The Independent Grocers Alliance said last week fuel-related costs can account for about 15 to 30 percent of the total cost of some food products.

The group said that for every 10 percent rise in fuel costs, food prices can increase 2 to 3 percent, based on historical averages.

The Israeli military has said it killed a senior commander for the Lebanese Iran-backed militant group, Hezbollah, in strikes in the Beirut area, the Associated Press reported.

The military said another senior leader was also killed, according to the AP.

US President Donald Trump will give a national address Wednesday night local time about an “important update on Iran,” the White House has announced.

Donald Trump has lashed out at Britain, saying the US “won’t be there to help you any more, just like you weren’t there for us” in an extraordinary rant against his allies over the Iran war.

The president told countries that did not take part in strikes against Iran to “get your own oil”, saying they should attempt to reopen the Strait of Hormuz themselves now that the US had “done the hard part”.

He also reignited his row with Sir Keir Starmer, saying Britain had “refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran” and needed to “start learning how to fight for yourself”.

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President Donald Trump said Tehran does not have to make a “deal” with Washington to end ⁠the conflict.

But, he does want to see Iran “put into the stone ⁠ages,” without the ability to soon acquire a nuclear ‌weapon before the was comes to an end.

“Then ​we’ll leave,” he said.

An American journalist has been kidnapped in Baghdad and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors.

The journalist was identified as freelancer Shelly Kittleson by one of the outlets she worked for. The Iraqi interior ministry said in a statement that a foreign journalist had been kidnapped, without giving more details about the person’s identity.

US president Donald Trump claimed the war will be over in “two to three weeks”.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office he said the price of oil will also come “tumbling down” when he leaves Iran.

“All I have to do is leave Iran, and we’ll be doing that very soon, and they’ll become tumbling down,” he insisted.

He added: “Stock prices were up today, almost to a record, because they know two things. Number one, we have a safe country. We had to take a little detour because we had a madman named Khomeini, who, sadly, is no longer with us. And we had regime change already.

“We’ve knocked out one regime, then we knocked out the second regime. Now we have a group of people that’s very that are very different. They’re much more reasonable, I think, much more much less radicalized.

“It’s a we’ve had regime change, we’re dealing with people that are much more rational, and it’s very, it’s amazing what we’ve done, we had to make a little detour.”

Thousands of people have been killed across the Middle East in the ​Iran war, which began when the US and Israel struck Iran on February 28.

According to US-based rights group HRANA 3,492 people have been killed since the war erupted. It said 1,574 of those were civilians, including at least 236 children.

The group says its ⁠data comes from field reports, local contacts, medical and emergency sources, civil society networks, open-source materials and official statements.