A person lowers a suitcase from the balcony of a constructing broken by a US-Israeli strike on a industrial district on March 29, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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President Trump says that negotiations with Iran are going properly, and that Tehran “out of an indication out of respect” will permit 20 oil tankers to move by the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.
Nonetheless, he stated, in feedback made to reporters on Air Pressure One on Sunday evening, “you by no means know with Iran, we negotiate with them after which we all the time need to blow them up.”
Trump additionally advised The Monetary Occasions in an interview Monday that the U.S. might “take the oil in Iran” and that he was contemplating sending U.S. forces to grab Kharg Island’s oil terminal.
“Possibly we take Kharg Island, possibly we do not. We’ve got a whole lot of choices,” he advised the British newspaper. “It could additionally imply we needed to be there (on Kharg Island) for some time.”
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Trump says there’s been regime change
In his feedback on Air Pressure One on the way in which to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Trump additionally advised reporters he thought to some extent the US-Israeli conflict in Iran has achieved regime change.
“We have had regime change when you look already as a result of the one regime was decimated, destroyed, they’re all lifeless,” he stated, referring to high rating officers killed within the conflict together with the late Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei.
Folks collect for the funeral of Stg. Moshe Itzhak Hacohen Katz, 22, on March 29, 2026 in Jerusalem.
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“The following regime is usually lifeless, and the third regime we’re coping with completely different folks than anyone’s handled earlier than, it is an entire completely different group of individuals,” Trump stated.
Ayatollah Khamenei was changed earlier this month by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who hasn’t been seen in public and could also be wounded, and who’s broadly thought-about to characterize a continuation of Iran’s hardline theocracy
“So I believe we have had regime change, I imply you may’t do significantly better than that,” Trump stated.
Outrage over Patriarch
Battle and faith clashed yesterday as police prevented the Catholic Church’s highest official in Jerusalem from coming into one of many faith’s holiest websites. Citing conflict restrictions on gatherings within the Previous Metropolis, the Latin Patriarch was barred from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Israeli police stopped Jerusalem’s high Catholic official Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and one other chief from holding non-public Palm Sunday prayers there.
Public gatherings in Israel are restricted to 50 folks as a result of conflict and risks from incoming missiles from Iran. However within the Previous Metropolis’s holy websites, restrictions have been tighter.
World leaders and thepope condemned the closure, which additionally drew a uncommon rebuke of Israel from U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later stated the Cardinal can be granted full and instant entry to the church.
Israel strikes Tehran, trades assaults with Hezbollah
Regardless of Trump’s optimistic evaluation of negotiations, combating continued unabated within the Center East on Monday morning.
Youngsters play within the courtyard of a faculty that has been become a brief displacement camp on March 29, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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The Israel Protection Forces stated it had struck weapons manufacturing websites in Tehran in a single day together with: “a web site used for assembling long-range anti-aircraft missiles.”
Israel additionally continued its marketing campaign in Lebanon, bombing Beirut’s southern suburbs.
For its half, Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah stated it had fired rockets at bases in Northern Israel and Israeli troops in Southern Lebanon.
The IDF stated on Sunday “two IDF troopers have been significantly wounded on account of anti-tank fireplace directed at IDF forces in southern Lebanon.” That got here after a Connecticut-born Israeli soldier was killed in a fight operation in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
Oil worth rises sharply
Oil hit $116 a barrel Monday, after Trump’s feedback the U.S. might seize Iran’s oil and Kharg Island, sending inventory markets in Asia tumbling.
Brent crude, the worldwide benchmark, has jumped greater than 50% for the reason that begin of March, surpassing the earlier file of 46% throughout Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is holding talks Monday with power business leaders, together with these from BP and Shell, whereas his chancellor Rachel Reeves is anticipated to push clear power acceleration to protect towards international worth shocks.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese introduced Monday his authorities was reducing its tax on gasoline and diesel for a minimum of 4 months to assist scale back the strain on Australian shoppers.
Assaults on infrastructure
Iran stated its electrical energy grid was secure after assaults triggered energy cuts in some areas. Iranian state media says shrapnel from weekend strikes broken energy tools in Tehran and close by Karaj metropolis, resulting in hours-long blackouts in each locations.
Folks move close to the positioning of a US-Israeli strike on a industrial district on March 29, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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Israel stated over the weekend it hit about 140 targets in Iran. Iran stated a number of of these strikes hit universities, and is now threatening to hit U.S. campuses within the Center East in retaliation.
In the meantime, Russia’s state nuclear power company, Rosatom, is warning that strikes are deteriorating the situation of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant. Rosatom helped construct the Bushehr plant, which has been hit a number of instances in the course of the conflict.
Individually, the Worldwide Company for Atomic Vitality stated bombing had rendered an Iranian water plant inoperational.
“Based mostly on impartial evaluation of satellite tv for pc imagery and data of the set up, the IAEA has confirmed the heavy water manufacturing plant at Khondab, which Iran reported had been attacked on 27 March, has sustained extreme broken and is not operational. The set up incorporates no declared nuclear materials,” the physique stated on X.
Iran is hitting again. Over the weekend, Iranian forces struck an industrial zone in southern Israel, beginning a fireplace at a chemical plant and elevating fears of a leak. The regime additionally attacked an influence and desalination plant in Kuwait in a single day, killing a employee from India, the ministry of water and electrical energy stated in a press release.
Desalination vegetation are important for water-scarce Gulf Arab international locations, drawing seawater and eradicating salts and minerals so the water can be utilized for ingesting and primary wants.
And after Israeli assaults triggered in depth harm at two of Iran’s largest metal vegetation, Iran attacked aluminum factories over the weekend within the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Emirates International Aluminum says the assault triggered important harm to its most important facility in Abu Dhabi.
Carrie Kahn in Jerusalem, Emily Feng in Van, Turkey, Aya Batrawy in Dubai, and Kate Bartlett in Johannesburg contributed to reporting.
