Iran war live: Trump says last night’s Iran strikes ‘minor, it wasn’t war’

 

• US President Donald Trump says US watching Iranian anti-aircraft facility last two months, “as soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely”. Remarks follow reports of US attacks on Iran’s Qeshm Island. In interview with Fox News, Trump also says funding for Israel to be cut “by end of this year“.
• Iran’s top security chief Mohsen Rezaei says US must ‘fully and explicitly” address Tehran’s seven conditions before Strait of Hormuz will be fully reopened.
• Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says three tankers explode after hitting naval mines while transiting through Strait of Hormuz without permission. The IRGC also claims two US Lucas drones shot down over the coastal area of Bandar Khamir.
• Houthis claim strikes on Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport and Khamis Mushait airbase, as well as attacks on Saudi “enemy forces” in the east of Yemen’s al-Jawf governorate. Saudi Arabia has yet to comment on the claims.