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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard stated: “If the criminal Netanyahu and child killer is still alive, we will continue to pursue him.”
Secretary of Iran’s National Security Council Ali Larijani claimed American officials planned to create an event similar to the 9/11 attacks and blame it on Iran, in a post shared on X.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss acquiring Ukrainian interceptors, with the call to take place on Wednesday, according to Ynet.
All loading and export operations from the oil ports in Basrah, southern Iraq, have been halted, reported al-Jazeera, citing an official from Iraq’s oil sector.
The goals of the war are being changed, because there is a difficulty in pushing Iranian people out in large numbers onto the streets, so Washington and Tel Aviv are considering other major steps to affect the course of the war, reported the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.
Footage from pro-Iranian media showed the moment FPV drones targeted the US victoria base in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday morning, noting it’s the first time FPV drones have been used.
Field sources told Al-Jadeed: “The goal of the Israeli army is to advance and establish a permanent presence in central Khiam, where it has intensified its airstrikes and artillery shelling – this has not been achieved so far, and clashes are still ongoing to prevent it.”
Switzerland blocked US military flights directly linked to the Iran war to uphold its neutrality, rejecting two recon flights, approving three others including two transport planes, and said future requests above normal levels would be denied unless clearly non-military.
Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, including two children, during a raid in the West Bank village of Tammun, according to the Palestinian health authorities, as the Israeli military confirmed it was reviewing the reports.
Saudi Arabia announced they’d intercepted 4 drones around Riyadh, and another 6 across eastern regions, as Iran asked the Saudi officials to check the flight trajectories of the drones.
US intelligence reportedly presented Trump with an assessment that Iran’s former Supreme leader feared the possibility his son might succeed him in power, due to not being particularly capable and was considered unfit to serve as a leader, so the White House now believes the IRGC is effectively making the key decisions with Iran’s leadership.
Many Iranian residents who cheered on the offensive as a last chance to overthrow their rulers are now feeling betrayed as hope shifted to despair while the country suffered devastation as the same government remained in power, vowing to take an even harder line against dissent, according to the WSJ.
WSJ also reports that Iran has fired more than 290 missiles and launched more than 200 drones at Israel since the start of the US/Israeli strikes, as Bahrain separately announced on Sunday that it had intercepted 211 drones and 125 missiles since the beginning of the war.
UAE MoD stated that since the start of the war, they had intercepted 1606 UAVs, 15 cruise missiles, and 298 ballistic missiles that were targeting their territory.
Oil loading at the UAE’s Fujairah port resumed after a drone strike and fire on Saturday forced a halt, but the blaze had been extinguished and operations restarted, people familiar with the situation informed Bloomberg.
Shrapnel from an Iranian ballistic missile launched yesterday damaged a building housing a US diplomat in Jerusalem, reported CNN.
Also by CNN, the Israeli military is planning at least three more weeks of its campaign against Iran, as Brigadier General Effie Defrin said: “We are ready, in coordination with our US allies, with plans through at least the Jewish holiday of passover, about three weeks from now, and we have deeper plans for even three weeks beyond that.
According to Ynet, Israeli officials are planning for the war to continue until April too, as expectations for an immediate collapse of the regime become more restrained, and the focus remains on stopping Iran’s missile launch and production capabilities, as well as stirring unrest inside Iran despite uncertainty about their effectiveness.
Areas surrounding Karkh Central Prison in Baghdad, the recent recipients of 1000 ISIS members from Syria along with current high-risk terrorist inmates, have been struck over the past few days, with six projectiles landing in the vicinity of the Baghdad airport in just 6 hours on Saturday night.
Iraq’s oil ministry made an urgent request to the Kurdistan Regional Government to resume oil exports through the pipeline to Turkey, adding that they were prepared to export up to 300,000 barrels per day of Kurkuk crude to Ceyan, as well as 200,000 barrels from Kurdish fields suspended due to militia attacks on energy infrastructure, because Baghdad is struggling to restore revenue flows and oil accounts for around 90% of the country’s income.
Israeli Home Front Command is upgrading its early warning system for long-range missile fire by implementing a more precise distribution of preliminary warning measures, noting that the move was aimed at reducing irrelevant warnings for civilians and enabling an effective emergency routine.
Graphic footage showed a damaged vehicle in which the Director of the Intervention Police of Hamas was killed along with seven other police officers by IDF forces in Salah al-Din Street near the entrance to the town of Al-Zawayda, Gaza.
Channel 12 announced that Turkey was dispatching aircraft to Qatar to support their air defence capabilities to intercept Iranian missiles and drones.
Shin Bet and the IDF said they had eliminated Mohammed Majed Salem Tawfiq Zaydan, who is accused of working in Lebanon under the direction of Iranian intelligence, and they described him as a central operative who was attempting to advance attacks inside Israel.
Controversial footage of Benjamin Netanyahu in a coffee shop was released following rumours circulating in pro-Iranian media claiming that he had died, however many analysts have been left scrambling to prove its authenticity.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told ABC news that the war with Iran would ‘certainly come to an end in the next few weeks,’ if not sooner, while also telling This Week that he acknowledged prices had gone up, but said a broad coalition of nations including China, Japan and South Korea could help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Footage released by the IDF of a previously targeted drone facility in western Iran showed a secondary strike on drone troops as they were fleeing after the first strike.
Lebanese MP Adib Abdel Massih told MTV Lebanon: “Israel is seeking negotiations to the May 1983 agreement, including border demarcation, a buffer zone, Lebanese-Israeli relations, joint economic matters, and how Hezbollah should be disarmed.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied that Iran had called for a ceasefire to the ongoing hostilities, reaffirming that Iran was prepared to defend itself.
Araghchi also said that as the speaker of the nation, internet access was required, but it was necessary to close it off to the public to prevent propaganda, when asked why Araghchi was able to use Zoom to make a video call.
Two Israeli officials have told Reuters that Israel and Lebanon are due to hold talks in the coming days, but Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar stated that direct talks were not expected immediately, stressing that Lebanon must take serious steps to stop Hezbollah’s fire.
Israeli media reported that Shiite militias in Iraq were now launching drones towards Israel, in addition to Hezbollah and Iran.
Channel 14 Israel stated that reports claiming the defence establishment requesting the mobilisation of 450,000 reservists was misleading clickbait that caused unnecessary panic, following previous reports that the largest mobilisation in history was being pushed for approval.
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Bloomberg that the Pentagon estimated the war with Iran would take between four and six weeks, adding that the campaign was ‘ahead of schedule.’
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz is pushing to expand ground operations in Lebanon and capture territory to push anti-tank threats farther from the border – a move backed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli Air Force struck more than 200 targets in western and central Iran over the past day, according to the military, with targets including command centres manned by Iranian soldiers, air defence systems, weapons storage and production sites.
Following an approval of an emergency budget of 2.6 billion shekels for the purchase of weapons and combat equipment, Israeli Defence Ministry Director Major General (res.) Amir Baram is travelling to Washington DC for a short working visit at the behest of Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz.
President Donald Trump once again called on regional states to join the campaign against Iran in an exclusive interview with Israeli Channel 14, linking their participation as a means of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.
The Lebanese Army received an order to withdraw and evacuate its final site in the Al-Bayader neighbourhood south of the town of Shebaa, along with statements calling for reconsideration of this decision, including one issued by the Municipality of Shebaa.
Hezbollah announced that it targeted another gathering of soldiers, this time east of Khiam Prison, using a rocket salvo, while also targeting a gathering of Israeli soldiers at Al Ajal Hill position north of the Kfar Yuval settlement with rockets.
According to Kan News, Hamas sent two letters to Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei over the weekend – one public and diplomatic, while the other was secret and operational, which Kan revealed called for activating ‘all fronts’ against Israel, emphasising cooperation with the ‘resistance axis’ in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry circulated the report on its official X account, describing the letter as a ‘smoking gun’ that proved Hamas was urging regional escalation and betraying its Arab brethren.
Iran issued several evacuation warnings for three areas in Qatar and UAE, while the IRGC later published further images of the evacuation zone in the UAE – both warnings are real and were disseminated by Iranian media state outlets.
Later, Iran also issued evacuation warnings for residents listed near American banks, including multiple financial institutions in the UAE.
A person was killed after a rocket fell on a civilian vehicle in the Al Bahia area of Abu Dhabi last night, according to the Abu Dhabi Media Office.
European foreign ministers are due to discuss the protection of maritime corridors and the issue of the Strait of Hormuz will be at the top of the discussions this week, al-Jazeera reported.
A drone reportedly struck in the vicinity of Dubai International Airport, causing a huge fire, as authorities worked to contain it, according to Dubai’s Media Office.
Dubai Civil Aviation Authority confirmed some flights to and from Dubai International Airport were resuming gradually after a brief suspension.
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry said that the attack on international forces is dangerous and constitutes a violation of international law and UN resolutions, while recalling the government’s decision to ban Hezbollah’s military and security activities.
Mehr News Agency reported that five people were killed and seven others injured in one of the villages of Arak in the Markazi Province following an attack.
President Trump warned NATO faced a ‘very bad future’ if allies failed to help the US in the Iran war, according to the FT.
Australia became the latest in a list of countries not to send naval ships to assist reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a government minister said on Monday.
The US Victoria base in Baghdad has once again been targeted by rockets overnight, reported Al Jazeera.
Trump is considering seizing Iran’s Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, responsible for 90% of Iran’s crude exports, reported Axios.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been secretly advising Trump to keep hitting Iran hard, despite Riyadh’s public rhetoric against the war, reported the NYT.
A security official in Khuzestan province in Iran reported that 25 civilians were killed and 40 others were wounded following American-Israeli aggression in the province.
Two members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces were killed and a member of the Federal Police was wounded following a joint attack north of Babil, south of Baghdad in Iraq.
Three people were killed, including 2 paramedics, as a result of an IDF strike on the town of Kafr-Sir in southern Lebanon.
