Iran-US war latest: Trump launches fresh attack on Nato after Tehran mocks peace talks claims

Malaysia’s prime minister Anwar Ibrahim stated on Thursday he had spoken to the leaders of Iran, Egypt, Turkey and different regional nations and stated Malaysian vessels had been now being allowed to go by way of the Strait of Hormuz.

Anwar in a televised deal with thanked Iran’s president for permitting the passage of the vessels.

He additionally stated Malaysia’s authorities would keep the value of subsidised oil.

In an additional Truth Social publish this morning, the US president stated: “The Iranian negotiators are very different and “strange.”

“They are “begging” us to make a deal, which they need to be doing since they’ve been militarily obliterated, with zero likelihood of a comeback, and but they publicly state that they’re solely “looking at our proposal.” WRONG!!! They higher get severe quickly, earlier than it’s too late, as a result of as soon as that occurs, there’s NO TURNING BACK, and it received’t be fairly!”

Israel stated on Thursday it had killed Commodore Alireza Tangsiri, the top of Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s navy, the important thing official overseeing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz stated he had been killed with different senior naval commanders in a strike in a single day. Iran didn’t instantly acknowledge Tangsiri’s killing.

Using Pakistan as an middleman, Washington has delivered to Iran a 15-point ceasefire proposal, which incorporates the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Donald Trump, talking at a fundraiser on Wednesday evening in Washington, insisted that Iran nonetheless desires to make a deal to halt the battle.

“They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they’re afraid to say it because they figure they’ll be killed by their own people,” Trump stated.

However, Iran’s overseas minister Abbas Araghchi stated in an interview on state tv that his authorities has not engaged in talks to finish the war, “and we do not plan on any negotiations.”

Araghchi stated the US had tried to ship messages to Iran by way of different nations, “but that is not a conversation nor a negotiation.”

Donald Trump will meet Chinese chief Xi Jinping in Beijing on 14-15 May, greater than a month later than initially deliberate.

The US president was scheduled to go to China on 31 March however postponed the journey after launching a war in opposition to Iran collectively with Israel.

The forthcoming go to would be the first to China by a US president in nearly a decade.

“I look very much forward to spending time with President Xi in what will be, I’m sure, a Monumental Event,” Mr Trump stated on his Truth Social platform after saying the brand new dates.

The president has stated Nato nations have “done nothing” to assist the US on this war.

Trump wrote on Truth Social this morning: “NATO NATIONS HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP WITH THE LUNATIC NATION, NOW MILITARILY DECIMATED, OF IRAN. THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO, BUT “NEVER FORGET” THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME!”

On Thursday, UK overseas secretary Yvette Cooper will urge Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as she travels to the G7 overseas ministers’ assembly in France.

She will clarify that the UK will assist guarantee protected passage for ships by way of the Strait and supply a further £2m in humanitarian assist to Lebanon.

Cooper is predicted to carry talks with counterparts together with US secretary of state Marco Rubio, France’s Jean-Noel Barrot, and Germany’s Johann Wadephul.

The Strait remained closed on Wednesday, regardless of Iran’s overseas minister Abbas Araghchi claiming it was open to “non-hostile” delivery.

Britain’s defence secretary stated that the federal government doesn’t imagine Iran has any plans to attack the UK, however declined to rule out that the nation has the potential to take action.

Asked repeatedly on Sky News whether or not Iran might attain London with missile strikes, John Healey stated: “We have no assessment of Iranian plans to strike London.”

Pressed additional on whether or not the nation has the potential to take action, he stated: “What I’m saying, and trying to reassure people is, that we’ve got no assessment that Iran has any plans to attack.

“But we have the resources, we have the alliance in place to be able to defend Britain, and we do that with allies, and we do that with Nato.

“As far as Iran goes, they’re demonstrating a capacity to hit across the Middle East, we see the same tactics and technologies that we see employed by Russia in Ukraine, and this is the hidden hand of Putin in both conflicts.

“I’m releasing today our latest defence intelligence assessment, which says that Russia was almost certainly providing training, sharing intelligence with Iran ahead of this conflict, including on types of drones, including on electronic warfare, and whilst Putin may want us to be distracted by the Middle East, we’re determined that we won’t be.”