Iran war: What’s happening on day 61 as UAE exits OPEC?

Trump says Iran is successful a ‘state of collapse’ arsenic Gulf leaders conscionable successful Saudi Arabia.

US President Donald Trump says Iran is successful a “state of collapse” and has urged a swift lifting of the US blockade, arsenic Gulf leaders gathering successful Saudi Arabia telephone connected Tehran to rebuild spot aft “treacherous” determination attacks.

Meanwhile, Israeli strikes successful confederate Lebanon person killed 3 exigency workers, successful what Lebanese President Joseph Aoun described arsenic a “war crime”.

Here is what we know:

In Iran

• Iran service spokesperson praises aerial unit role: Mohammad Akraminia said Iran’s aerial unit carried retired strikes connected “enemy bases” crossed the portion and penetrated US-designed defences, saying much than 170 craft were deed during the six weeks of war.
• “If the force again commits aggression and threatens the information of this land, they volition look a much crushing effect than before. We person galore winning cards that we person not yet used,” helium added.

War diplomacy

• Trump slams Merz: Trump lashed retired astatine German Chancellor Friedrich Merz implicit the Iran war, aft comments by Merz that Tehran is “humiliating” Washington astatine the negotiating table. Merz said that “the Americans evidently person nary strategy”, to which Trump said the chancellor “thinks it’s OK for Iran to person a atomic weapon.”
• Houthis backmost Iran, accidental they are ‘not neutral’: Yemen’s rebels condemned US “piracy”, voiced enactment for Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, and warned they could unopen the Bab al-Mandeb Strait arsenic tensions escalate.
• EU lawmaker questions Israel sanctions stance: Marc Botenga criticised the EU for considering sanctions implicit alleged commercialized successful Ukrainian atom linked to Russia, but not implicit actions successful Gaza, asking wherefore measures people “stolen grain” alternatively than alleged warfare crimes.

In the Gulf

• UAE to permission OPEC aft astir 60 years: The United Arab Emirates says it volition exit OPEC connected Friday, ending decades of rank successful the oil-producing cartel.
• Gulf states condemn Iran implicit Hormuz threat: Leaders of Gulf Arab countries rejected Tehran’s “illegal actions” to adjacent the Strait of Hormuz and endanger shipping, informing against immoderate disruption oregon transit fees.
• Meeting nether the Gulf Cooperation Council successful Saudi Arabia, they called for restoring “security and state of navigation” to pre-war levels and pushed for deeper subject integration.

In the US

• US Treasury says blockade volition unit Iran lipid cuts: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says US measures targeting Iran’s shadiness banking, crypto entree and lipid networks person deed revenues and weakened its economy, adding that the blockade is pushing Kharg Island adjacent capableness and could unit accumulation cuts costing astir $170m a day.
• Trump says Charles agrees connected Iran atomic weapons: Trump, hosting King Charles III astatine the White House, said during a authorities meal that his administration’s Middle East efforts were “going precise well” and claimed Iran had been “militarily defeated”, adding “Charles agrees” that Tehran indispensable ne'er beryllium allowed to get a atomic weapon.
• Trump hints astatine divisions successful Iran leadership: Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna said Trump has claimed Iran is successful a “state of collapse”; the rhetoric appears aimed astatine pressuring Tehran backmost to talks arsenic Washington maintains its reddish enactment connected preventing a atomic weapon.
• Despite reports that Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz successful speech for delaying atomic negotiations, the US is said to reason postponing those talks, leaving the concern successful limbo adjacent arsenic a ceasefire holds for now.
• Trump support hits caller debased amid Iran warfare concerns: The US president’s support standing has fallen to 34 percent, down from 36, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, arsenic dissatisfaction grows implicit the outgo of surviving and the warfare with Iran.

In Israel

• Ultra-Orthodox protesters tempest constabulary chief’s home: Anti-conscription demonstrators broke into the location of Yuval Yamin successful Ashkelon, barricading themselves successful his plot aft a tribunal ruling targeting draught evasion.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “violent attack” and called for steadfast action.

In Lebanon

• Israeli ‘double-tap’ onslaught kills 5 successful southbound Lebanon: Heidi Pett, reporting from Tyre, said 5 people, including 3 medics, were killed successful a onslaught connected rescue workers, with 2 soldiers wounded. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called it a “war crime”.
• Israeli forces person continued aerial strikes, shelling and demolitions, portion Hezbollah has stepped up drone attacks and rocket fire, highlighting fragile ceasefire conditions.

Global economy

• Oil jumps, stocks slide: Crude prices surged aft Trump signalled helium whitethorn cull Iran’s connection to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, portion Qatar warned the situation could crook into a prolonged “frozen conflict,” weighing connected equities. Brent crude for June transportation climbed astir 2.8 percent, reaching $111.26 per barrel.