Iran-US war latest: Trump wants Tehran to ‘pay the price’ for killing US soldiers after 10-day ceasefire proposal

Lebanese army troops began deploying in the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh on Tuesday after Israeli forces withdrew from the area, a senior Lebanese security official said, in line with a US-brokered plan.

The plan sees Lebanese army troops confiscating Hezbollah’s weapons in parts of southern Lebanon and phased withdrawals of Israeli troops. The Israeli military said on Monday that the plan, dubbed the pilot zone programme, has begun. It had no immediate comment on Tuesday.

In a statement, the Iran-aligned armed group said that they were declaring “a maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy, based on the equation of ‘an eye for an eye’, effective immediately”.

They said the decision was in response to what they described as “an unjust and oppressive siege” imposed on Yemen by the Saudis.

New US intelligence reports suggest that a new round of US strikes on facilities is unlikely to influence Iran’s position, both current and former US officials told The Washington Post.

The spy agencies have concluded that Tehran and Washington are stuck in a limbo between war and peace.

The findings have been briefed to President Donald Trump’s administration, according to the reports.

In an interview with DRM News, Reza Pahlavi has said that he receives social media messages from members of the Iranian establishment that are hoping to break away from it.

“I began receiving some DMs in my social media by elements that say, you know, ‘I’m a basij in Mashhad,’ or ‘I’m a member of the IRGC in such and such country. We hate this regime. We’re not with them. We’re looking for an opportunity to break away’,” he said.

“It’s not that I’m in fact talking to the IRGC command — not at all. But there were elements of the Sepah, of course the military as well, that would communicate with me discreetly.”

They were identified on Monday as 25-year-old 1st Lt Tyler James Feehan from Ewa Beach, Hawaii and 19-year-old Pvt. Isabella Gonzales from Carrolton, Texas.

But in the week leading up to the incident, Iran carried out three other attacks against the US in Jordan that injured dozens of service members and damaged several helicopters, US officials told the New York Times.

The Pentagon did not disclose the attacks nor release details of the casualties and damage inflicted.

Oil prices held close to a one-month high on Tuesday despite efforts to broker a truce between the US and Iran as the widening conflict and a new threat to Red Sea shipping kept supply fears alive.

Brent crude, the international benchmark, slipped 0.4 per cent to $88.87 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate held steady at $82.47. Both remained near the highs reached the day before, when Brent broke above $90 for the first time in more than a month.

The slight retreat came after reports of a mediation effort to pause the fighting between US and Iran. Tehran had received a proposal from mediators for a 10-day ceasefire, an effort to salvage an interim deal signed on 17 June to end the US-Israeli war on Iran that started on 28 February, a senior Iranian official told Reuters.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have claimed to have targeted US retail giant Amazon’s infrastructure in Bahrain.

The Guard have also launched attacks on US bases in Jordan and Kuwait.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard this morning claimed it launched an attack on US military bases in Jordan.

The Guard claimed it destroyed a missile defence radar system and an F-15 aircraft inside a shelter during the attack.

The Pentagon’s chief spokesperson said nearly 100 US service members have been injured since the US restarted strikes on 7 July, and 96 per cent of them have returned to duty.

“The vast majority of injuries experienced were minor concussions,” Sean Parnell posted on X in response to a New York Times report that the Pentagon has withheld information about troop injuries from Iranian strikes. He denied that the Pentagon was hiding data about injuries.

However, the Defense Casualty Analysis System, the military’s clearinghouse for reporting deaths and injuries in conflict, has not been updated as of last night with the latest attacks.