ran still has "21, 22 percent" of its missiles left, US President Donald Trump said Friday, in a week in which Tehran fired dozens of them toward regional neighbors, despite a sputtering ceasefire.

"They still have capacity. They have some missiles, they have some drones. I would say, percentage wise, maybe 21, 22 percent of their missiles," Trump told NBC News in an interview.

The US military said it carried out strikes on Iranian radar sites on Friday in what it called a defensive action after Iran launched four attack drones toward the Strait of Hormuz.

The US military shot down all of the Iranian drones, saying they "posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic." It said the Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites targeted by the US were located in Goruk and on Qeshm Island.

Iran's football squad have been granted visas to play in the World Cup, US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack confirmed in a message on X on Friday.

"Proud of our outstanding team at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara for their work processing visas for Iran's national football team on their road to the @FIFAWorldCup in the United States," he said, commenting on a news report that Iran's World Cup players have been granted the visas to enter the United States. 

"Sports transcends borders, and we look forward to welcoming competitors and fans from around the world," the ambassador said. 

Iran has launched multiple drones towards the Strait of Hormuz, CNN reported on Friday, citing a US official who also said at least four drones were shot down by US aircraft.

During the war with Iran, Israel had secretly set up elite military and spy units in Azerbaijan as a part of a broader hidden network it built across the region to run operations against Iran

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on a network allegedly exporting Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) from Iran to South and Eastern Asia by falsely flagging it as originating in Oman, the Treasury said.

The network used front companies in the United Arab Emirates and China and a "shadow fleet" of vessels, according to a Treasury statement.

The system, designed to evade existing US sanctions, moved LPG worth hundreds of millions of dollars, it added.

The United States has tightened sanctions on Iran since it jointly launched its war on the country with Israel in late February.

"Today, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is designating a network of individuals, entities, and vessels responsible for shipping hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of Iranian-origin liquid petroleum gas - intentionally disguised as Omani LPG - to end users in South and East Asia," says US Treasury in a post on X.

Today, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is designating a network of individuals, entities, and vessels responsible for shipping hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian-origin liquid petroleum gas⸺intentionally disguised as Omani LPG⸺to end users in South…

— Treasury Department (@USTreasury) June 5, 2026

"Iranian forces did NOT attack or fire at US Navy warships. Doing so would be a gross violation of the ceasefire. US forces continue to operate freely in regional waters while fully enforcing the ongoing blockade against Iran," the US Central Command said on Friday, dismissing earlier claims by Iran that its Navy had attacked US ships in the Gulf of Oman.

🚫 CLAIM: Iran claims it fired warning shots at U.S. warships in the Gulf of Oman, forcing American vessels to “retreat” toward the Indian Ocean. FALSE.
✅TRUTH: Iranian forces did NOT attack or fire at U.S. Navy warships. Doing so would be a gross violation of the ceasefire.… pic.twitter.com/PdfC1EMZTP

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 5, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has brushed aside reports of a serious fallout with US President Donald Trump, saying that disagreements between the two leaders are occasional and usually centred on strategy.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday said Tehran "standing against the world's greatest power, equipped with nuclear weapons, for 40 days is no joke," and that "the world has realised the true power of the Iranian nation."

Iran's navy said on Friday it had fired warning missiles and drones at US warships in the Gulf of Oman, accusing the U.S. Navy of harassing maritime traffic and seizing commercial vessels and oil tankers, Iranian state media reported.

Earlier, the US Indo-Pacific Command said US forces had intercepted the sanctioned stateless vessel M/T DAVINA in the Indian Ocean overnight.

"We will continue global maritime enforcement to disrupt illicit networks and interdict vessels providing material support to Iran, wherever they operate," it said in a post on X. (Reuters)

US President Donald Trump has said that Washington did not need a peace deal with Iran requiring the removal of the Islamic Republic's enriched uranium from the country. "It's entombed," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that he "doesn't like" the idea of the US military doing it. 

Iran has reaffirmed support for its Lebanese ally Hezbollah and demanded Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon, underscoring complications facing an interim deal to end the broader conflict between the US and Iran. 

Iran has made a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah a condition for any peace deal with Washington to resolve the regional war, now in its fourth month, and restart shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

The latest round of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel erupted at the start of March, two days after the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran. Hezbollah said its actions were in support of Tehran.

"This war will end only when it ends in Lebanon as well," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Lebanese TV station Al Mayadeen late on Thursday.

"The end of the war on Lebanon must be accompanied by the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territories they have occupied," he said.

The United Nations on Friday said it is doubling the amount of money it says it needs to help Lebanon meet surging humanitarian needs, as the war enters its fourth month.

Lebanon was drawn into the wider regional war in early March when the Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia fired rockets at Israel in solidarity with Iran, which was under U.S.-Israeli attack, prompting a major Israeli air and ground campaign.

Since March 2, more than 3,500 people have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to Lebanese authorities, whose data does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

Israel says 26 of its soldiers and four civilians have been killed in Hezbollah attacks since March. (Reuters)

The Middle East conflict is pushing millions of people closer to hunger, as rising fuel and transport costs drive up food prices while funding shortfalls force aid agencies to scale back assistance, the UN World Food Programme said.     

Joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February triggered a regional conflict stretching across the Gulf and into Lebanon, disrupting key shipping routes, including the Strait of Hormuz, forcing vessels to reroute and sharply constraining global energy flows and supply chains.

In March, the WFP forecast as many as 45 million people could fall into acute food insecurity if oil prices remained around $100 per barrel through June. That scenario is now unfolding, the agency said, with benchmark crude prices staying above that level since early March. 

Households in Afghanistan, Somalia and Sri Lanka are among the most seriously affected and face mounting pressure due to higher fuel costs, food price spikes, income losses and disrupted trade.

The Reserve Bank expectedly kept interest rates unchanged for the second time in a row as it weighed the impact of rising energy prices and supply disruptions caused by the Middle East crisis.

The policy decision comes amid a three-month long conflict in West Asia that has disrupted energy supplies, leading to a surge in crude oil prices, and created fiscal and inflationary pressures for import-dependent countries like India.

Announcing the second bi-monthly monetary policy for the current fiscal, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has unanimously decided to retain short-term lending rate or repo rate at 5.25 per cent with a neutral stance.

Jobless claims in the US increased more than expected in the week ended May 30, but the underlying trend was consistent with a stable labour market.

The initial claims for state unemployment rose 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 225,000, as per the Labor Department.  

US President Donald Trump has said that Washington did not need a peace deal with Iran requiring the removal of the Islamic Republic's enriched uranium from the country. "It's entombed," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that he "doesn't like" the idea of the US military doing it. 

Trump's latest remarks are a slight deviation from his earlier stance, as he repeatedly insisted that Iran will not be permitted to keep its highly enriched uranium stockpile, making its removal or destruction a central prerequisite in ongoing US-Iran peace negotiations.

Despite a truce technically in effect since October, daily violence has rocked the Gaza Strip, over half of which is under Israeli military control in defiance of the ceasefire's terms.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country.

"We could get it right now. I don't think they could stop us if we wanted, but there's no reason to. It's entombed," he told reporters in the Oval Office.

The Israeli military said on Thursday that one of its soldiers was killed in southern Lebanon, the first fatality since the announcement of a new ceasefire plan. 

Captain Eitan Shmuel Lemberg, 21, "fell in combat" the military said in a brief statement. A military source told AFP that he was killed by a missile fired by the Hezbollah militant group at an Israeli tank.

Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a message on Thursday that Iran's enemies, having been defeated on the battlefield, were now seeking to undermine public resilience and sow internal divisions.

Khamenei called for national unity in the face of those threats and said any action that created pessimism or frustration among the public amounted to helping the enemy.

The message was read on his behalf during ceremonies marking the anniversary of the death of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, as well as a major Shi'ite holiday.

(Reuters)

Israel's defence minister said Thursday that a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon grants the military the "freedom" to strike Beirut if Hezbollah attacks Israeli communities, adding that operations in southern Lebanon would continue.

"The IDF will, at this stage, continue its fire and ground operations, remain in the security zone in Lebanon up to the Yellow Line -- including in the Beaufort area -- and without the return of the population, while continuing to dismantle terrorist infrastructure on the ground," Israel Katz said in a statement, as he hailed the ceasefire deal reached on Wednesday.

He said Israeli forces retained the "freedom of action, with American backing, to strike in Beirut in response to fire on Israeli communities and territory."

(AFP)

Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir criticised on Thursday a ceasefire deal with Lebanon brokered by Washington, calling it a "serious mistake".

"The ceasefire with Lebanon is a serious mistake and the pipe dreams of advisers are dragging the prime minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) to wrong decisions," the minister wrote on X.

Israel and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to implement a ceasefire but said it would require a "complete cessation" of fire by Iran-backed Hezbollah, according to a joint statement after US-led talks in Washington.

(AFP)

Lebanese official media reported Israeli strikes on the country's south on Thursday morning, hours after an announcement that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to implement a conditional ceasefire following talks in Washington.

The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Israeli drone strikes along roads at several south Lebanon locations, saying at least one caused casualties.

(AFP0

The Israeli military reported on Thursday that air raid sirens were sounded in northern Israel, saying one incident was resolved and another found to be a false alarm.

"Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago regarding a hostile aircraft infiltration in the area of Kfar Yuval, a suspicious aerial target was identified. The incident has concluded. No injuries were reported," the Israeli military wrote on social media, adding that another alert in the Arab al-Aramshe area was a "false identification".

(AFP)

Oil prices eased on Thursday as Israel and Lebanon's ceasefire agreement boosted hopes for a broader deal to end the US-Israeli war with Iran, while the US House approved a resolution seeking to curb President Donald Trump's war powers.

Brent futures were down 67 cents, or 0.69%, at $97.14 a barrel by 0015 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate CLc1 crude fell 62 cents, or 0.65%, to $95.4.

Both benchmarks rose about 2% on Wednesday, extending the previous session's gains, after renewed Middle East hostilities including Iranian attacks on Kuwait and US military strikes near the Strait of Hormuz.

In the US, the Republican-led House approved a resolution on Wednesday to block Trump from continuing the war against Iran. To take effect, the resolution would need Senate approval and two-thirds majorities in both chambers to override an almost certain Trump veto.

(Reuters)

The dollar clung to its recent strength near a two-month high on Thursday as fresh Gulf hostilities sent oil prices higher and sapped risk appetite, while the Japanese yen hovered near the key 160 level that kept traders on intervention alert.

Iranian attacks on Kuwait damaged its airport and injured dozens on Wednesday while the U.S. military carried out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, straining a shaky ceasefire and dimming hopes for a diplomatic halt to the war.

The euro stood at $1.1604, and the British pound traded at $1.3424, both largely flat so far in Asia.

The risk-sensitive Australian dollar was steady at $0.7132, and the New Zealand dollar rose 0.2% to $0.5872 to rebound from a one-week low.

(Reuters)

Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that "no tangible progress" has been made in negotiations to end the Middle East war as fresh US and Iranian strikes strained a fragile ceasefire.  

In contrast with the downbeat Iranian remarks, US President Donald Trump struck an optimistic note, telling reporters at the White House that the Iran talks could yield a result "over the weekend."

"I hear the negotiation itself is going very well actually," Trump said of a potential deal. "It could happen...over the weekend."

(AFP)

Iran FM warns any attack on Beirut will trigger 'full-scale resumption of war'

(AFP)

Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that Tehran would meet any attack with a strong response, local media reported Wednesday, after its Revolutionary Guards said they had targeted Kuwait in retaliation for US attacks.

"Today, the Iranian nation, in its battle with America and the Zionist regime, showed that the era of free-of-charge Iran threats is over and that any aggression will be met with a decisive, regrettable, and proportionate response," Ghalibaf said, according to local news agency ISNA.

(AFP)

The fate of Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpiles is at the center of talks with Washington, and Tehran has not yet agreed to a peace deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday.

Washington insists that Iran must turn over its near-weapons-grade enriched uranium, agree to curb its nuclear activities and re-open the Strait of Hormuz for any peace agreement to take hold.

"I think now, in some of the papers that have been exchanged back and forth, it's clearly addressed, but we...still don't have final sign off from their system as of this morning," Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

(AFP)

During his second day of testimony on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he hopes that the latest round of high-level political talks between Israel and Lebanon will result in a joint statement on ending hostilities. Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the U.S. are meeting at the State Department for a second day of negotiations.

President Donald Trump, in an interview released Wednesday, confirmed an earlier report that he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “crazy," and said he's “a little bit perturbed” that Israel’s fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon is holding back peace talks with Iran.

The Trump administration is sticking with a deal to permanently drop tax claims against Trump, an extraordinary flex of executive power that could help shield the president from further examination of his finances and legal conduct, even as it scraps a $1.8 billion fund to compensate the Republican president's allies amid a fierce political backlash.

(AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he and US President Donald Trump are aligned on the goal of disarming Hezbollah in order to achieve peace between Israel and Lebanon.

Hezbollah "is an Iranian proxy that puts all the citizens of Lebanon at gunpoint and uses Lebanon as a platform to launch terror missiles into our cities, to launch killer drones against our civilians", Netanyahu said in an interview with US television channel CNBC.

"And so if we want to save Lebanon, if we want to get a Lebanese-Israeli peace, as I do, we have to disarm Hezbollah and we have to demilitarise Lebanon. And I know that this is a goal that the president and I share, and that's what we have to do."

(AFP)

Speaking on a New York Post podcast, US President Donald Trump acknowledged that he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "crazy" and accused him of ingratitude.

An Indian national was killed in an attack on Kuwait International Airport, the Indian Embassy in Kuwait said in a post on X on Wednesday.

"Embassy of India in Kuwait expresses its deepest condolences at the tragic demise of an Indian national due to an attack on the airport in Kuwait today", the Embassy wrote.

Embassy of India in Kuwait expresses its deepest condolences at the tragic demise of an Indian national due to an attack on the airport in Kuwait today. The Embassy is in touch with the bereaved family and is closely coordinating with the Kuwaiti authorities to render all…

— India in Kuwait (@indembkwt) June 3, 2026

Iran's Revolutionary Guards claim attack on Kuwait

(AFP)

US President Donald Trump said he "would like to meet" Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in an interview published Wednesday.

"I would like to meet him, and we probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works out," Trump told the New York Post's "Pod Force One".

(AFP)

The Israeli army said it intercepted a "hostile aircraft" that crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon on Wednesday, the first such infiltration reported by the military in more than 24 hours.

"Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago regarding a hostile aircraft infiltration in the areas of Manara and Kiryat Shmona, a suspicious aerial target that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory was intercepted," the military said.

The military adviser to Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday warned of more missile and drone strikes should the United States renew its attacks on Iran.

"Every shot fired and every attack will be met with a deluge of missiles and drones," Mohsen Rezaei posted on X, adding that "the aggressor will swiftly be punished".

The warning followed US strikes on an Iranian tanker and on Iran's Qeshm island, sparking retaliatory attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain.

Iran accused Kuwait and Bahrain of allowing the United States to use their territory to launch attacks on an Iranian tanker and island, as it condemned Washington for the strikes.

"The foreign ministry... condemns the colonialist use by the United States of the territory and infrastructure of countries in the region to advance its aggressive plans against Iran, and emphasises the direct and unmistakable responsibility of the leaders of Kuwait and Bahrain for last night's acts of aggression," a statement said.

Six people - four Syrian nationals and two Palestinians - were killed in Israeli strikes near the coastal city on Wednesday, a medical source in south Lebanon's Tyre told the news agency AFP.

The individuals were killed in two strikes on the Al-Hawsh area, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

A top Emirati official called on Wednesday for a united stance from the Gulf after renewed attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain that were blamed on Iran.

"In light of Iran's repeated aggression against the brotherly states of Kuwait and Bahrain, a firm, unified and cohesive Gulf stance is imperative. No Gulf state should be left to face these attacks alone, because the security of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states is interconnected, their interests are shared, and their destiny is one and the same," said UAE presidential advisor Anwar Gargash in a post on X.

"This aggression does not just target one country, it targets us all," he added.

(AFP)

Several Iranian drones attacked the T1 building at Kuwait International Airport, leaving several injured. The aviation authority says it has suspended all flights for the time being. 

"A number of hostile drones targeted today the passenger building (T1) at Kuwait International Airport as a result of the criminal Iranian aggression, which resulted in significant material damage to the building and injuries to a number of individuals, who received the necessary medical care," Brigadier General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, official spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense, said.

The spokesperson affirmed that the armed forces are monitoring the situation, and they are in a state of complete readiness to deal with any developments.

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صرّح المتحدث الرسمي لوزارة الدفاع، العقيد الركن سعود عبدالعزيز العطوان، بأن عدداً من الطائرات المسيّرة المعادية استهدفت اليوم مبنى الركاب (T1) بمطار الكويت الدولي نتيجة العدوان الإيراني الآثم، ما أسفر عن أضرار مادية جسيمة في المبنى وإصابة عدد من الأشخاص، حيث تلقوا… pic.twitter.com/HMSd0TX7sG

— KUWAIT ARMY - الجيش الكويتي (@KuwaitArmyGHQ) June 3, 2026

Several injured, flights suspended after Kuwait airport hit by Iranian drones.

Oil prices extended gains Wednesday as Middle East peace talks stuttered, though stocks mostly rose on the back of continued demand for all things linked to artificial intelligence.

Key figures at around 0230 GMT:

West Texas Intermediate: UP 1.2 percent at $94.86 a barrel

Brent North Sea Crude: UP 1.0 percent at $96.97 a barrel

Tokyo - Nikkei 225: UP 2.6 percent at 68,452.45 (break)

Hong Kong - Hang Seng Index: DOWN 1.4 percent at 25,686.06

Shanghai - Composite: UP 0.2 percent at 4,084.37

Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.1630 from $1.1634 on Tuesday

Pound/dollar: UP at $1.3472 from $1.3470

Dollar/yen: DOWN at 159.85 yen from 159.92 yen

Euro/pound: DOWN at 86.34 pence from 86.37 pence 

New York - DOW: UP 0.5 percent at 51,307.79 (close)

London - FTSE 100: UP 0.3 percent at 10,373.51 (close)

Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei suffered severe facial and leg injuries on February 28, the day the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran. Ever since then there have been reports on his well-being, claiming he requires plastic surgery for his face for severe facial and lip burns and undergoing three surgeries on his leg and awaiting a prosthetic limb.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive and has increasingly become active.

"I think there are indications out there that he is increasingly engaging at some level," Rubio told senators.

Trump and Netanyahu had a heated call, with the US President raging over his counterpart over Israel's escalation in Lebanon. On the call, the US leader called Netanyahu "f***ing crazy" and accused him of ingratitude, according to a report by Axios.

Trump claimed he had helped keep Netanyahu out of jail -- a reference to his support during the Israeli leader's corruption trial.

"You're f***ing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this," Trump told Netanyahu, according to the Axios report.

At one point, a source said Trump got "pissed" with Netanyahu and asked him, "What the fuck are you doing?"

They went to war together against Iran, but Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's relationship is under strain after the US president reportedly called the Israeli premier "crazy."

US President Donald Trump rejected the reports claiming that peace talks between Washington and Tehran have stalled. In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump wrote that talks are on going but "where they lead, one never knows."

"Fake News Reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the USA, stopped speaking a few days ago are false and erroneous. The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today. Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, "It's time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You've been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!"," Trump wrote.

In a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency, the Revolutionary Guards claimed they had struck the US military installations in response to the strike on Qeshm Island.

"FALSE," Centcom said in a post on X. "All Iranian attacks on American forces failed."

🚫 CLAIM: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims they struck U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and a U.S. air base in the region with missiles and drones today. FALSE.
✅ TRUTH: All Iranian attacks on American forces failed. U.S. forces remain vigilant and ready to… pic.twitter.com/KuYzaENUqI

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 2, 2026

US forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, and conducted self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East, June 2.

Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets. Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by US and Bahrain air defense forces.

Moments earlier, US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces shot down three one-way attack drones launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters. American forces also conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island.

No US personnel were harmed. CENTCOM forces remain vigilant and ready to defend against unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire.

Kuwaiti air defences were intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks on Wednesday, state news agency KUNA reported, quoting the country's army which did not say where the threats came from.

KUNA cited the army's General Staff as saying any explosions heard were caused by interceptions and urged the public to follow safety instructions and avoid any debris or unidentified objects.

The US military said Tuesday that it had "successfully defeated" a series of Iranian missile and drone attacks in the Gulf and conducted self-defense strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island.

US Central Command also denied claims by Iran's Revolutionary Guards that they had struck the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and a separate air base in the region.

"Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets," Centcom said in a statement. 

"Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart en route, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by US and Bahrain air defense forces."