“We don’t know about Mojtaba Khamenei, we don’t hear him, we don’t see him, but I can tell you one thing: we will track him down, find him, and neutralise him,” military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin told reporters.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Iran’s powerful national security chief Ali Larijani was “eliminated last night”, along with the commander of the Islamic republic’s Basij paramilitary force.

Loud explosions shook Tehran Tuesday after a night of bombing, as US President Donald Trump pressed allies to help in the war that has engulfed the Middle East and sparked global economic turmoil.

China said on Tuesday it will provide humanitarian assistance to Middle Eastern countries, including Iran and Lebanon, targeted in US and Israeli strikes in the conflict now in its third week.

“Saudi Arabia and the UAE can reroute some crude output to terminals outside the Gulf,” the International Energy Agency stated in its latest monthly oil report, saying that this can “help offset lost crude flows via Hormuz.”

“They don’t understand that what they’re doing simply will bring more havoc on them”, Herzog said after visiting a home damaged by a missile attack in the coastal Israeli city of Rishon LeZion, near Tel Aviv.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday Britain was working with allies to come up with a “viable” plan to reopen the key Strait of Hormuz, but ruled out a NATO mission.

Russia has agreed to stop recruiting Kenyan citizens to fight with its army in Ukraine, Kenya’s foreign minister said Monday after talks with his Russian counterpart in Moscow.

West Texas Intermediate up 2% at $100.81/pb; Brent North Sea Crude up 3% at $106.20/PB; Tokyo-Nikkei 225, down 0.1% at 53,751.15; Hong Kong-Hang Seng Index up 1.5% at 25,834.02; Shanghai – Composite down 0.3% at 4,084.79

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States was in discussions with Iran as the war enters its third week but that Tehran was not ready for a deal to end it.