Iran war updates: Trump says Tehran’s reply to US proposal ‘unacceptable’

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• Tehran responded to the US peace deal proposal, with the text including an urgent need to end the war, guarantees against further aggression against Iran, the lifting of US sanctions, and Iranian management of the Strait of Hormuz. Ending the war in Lebanon is also part of the response.
• Trump said Iran’s response is “unacceptable” and “inappropriate”. He also said he had a “very nice call” with Israel’s Netanyahu.
• Netanyahu said the war on Iran is “not over” as Iran’s nuclear materials, enrichment sites and proxies need to be dismantled.
• Israeli attacks on Lebanon have continued, killing two paramedics and one civilian. Hezbollah says it struck Israeli army camps with drones in Khiam and Khallat Raj in the town of Deir Siryan in Lebanon.
• The UAE said its air defences intercepted two drones from Iran.
• Kuwait’s Defence Ministry said a “number of hostile drones” were detected in the country’s airspace at dawn.

Nawaf Salam has said that the aim of his recent visit to Damascus was “to raise the level of cooperation between Lebanon and Syria”, noting that “significant progress has been made with the Syrian side, the results of which will soon become apparent”, according to the National News Agency (NNA).

“The Lebanese majority supports negotiations to end the war,” he is quoted as saying, referring to Israel’s attacks on the country, adding that Lebanon “demanded a clear agenda for Israeli withdrawal during the negotiations”.

“We did not choose war, but our country was dragged into the confrontation between Iran and America,” he said, noting that “68 Lebanese villages are now under Israeli control because of this war”.

Bint Jbeil, the town in southern Lebanon that Israeli forces have laid siege to, “has become a version of Gaza”, he said.

Satellite images released last week appeared to show a large oil slick spreading west of Iran’s Kharg Island, the country’s main oil export hub in the Gulf, covering dozens of square kilometers of sea.

However, Iran’s Oil Terminals Company has denied reports of an oil leak, according to state media. The cause of the possible spill and the point of origin remain unknown.

In an interview on Al Jazeera, Professor Chuk Okereke of the University of Bristol said any environmental incident at Kharg Island would “immediately cascade to an environmental and ecological and even geopolitical disaster.”

Watch below for his analysis:

Hezbollah says it targeted Israeli soldiers in the town of Khiam, in southern Lebanon, with “attack drones”.

The group also says it sent a drone to attack Israeli forces in Khallat Raj, in the town of Deir Siryan.

The same tiny tungsten cubes that spray out of Israeli bombs, causing devastating internal injuries to people in Gaza, are being found in wounded civilians in Lebanon, war surgeon Dr Tahir Mohammed says.

He described the weapons as “indiscriminate”.

Watch our interview with Dr Mohammed here:

The Iranian army says an “enemy drone was destroyed” by their air defence systems in the southwestern region, according to the Fars news agency.

As the world’s attention remains focused on the fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran, the Israeli army and settlers continue to carry out attacks across the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

Here are some of the incidents reported by the Wafa news agency in the past few hours:

• Israeli forces detained a Palestinian owner of property that the military has threatened with demolition and assaulted his brother in the raid.
• Israeli forces raided the towns of Saida, Illar and Attil in the Sha’rawiya area north of Tulkarem.
• Israeli forces stormed the town of Doha, west of Bethlehem.
• Israeli forces deployed around the Balqis wedding hall, closed the main street in the area, and prevented traffic from passing.
• The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said that Israeli authorities have escalated their abuse of female Palestinian detainees held in Damon prison.
• Israeli forces issued notices to confiscate land in the al-Jabariyat neighbourhood of Jenin city.
• Israeli settlers demolished agricultural shelters in the Bedouin community of Arab al-Khouli, located east of the town of Kafr Thulth.

Trump has expanded on his Truth Social post rejecting Iran’s response to the US ceasefire proposal.

“I don’t like their letter. It’s inappropriate,” Trump told Axios. He would not share details of what he disliked about the text.

The president also had a “very nice call” with Netanyahu, but emphasised that the Iran negotiations are “my situation, not everybody else’s”.

South Korea says it is investigating an incident on May 4 when two unidentified objects struck a Korean-operated cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

The strike caused a fire and damaged the vessel’s stern.

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This is the first reaction from the Trump administration since the Iranians said they had passed along their proposal for an end to the war.

What the US president said is basically that he doesn’t like the deal.

It’s not clear what it is that made Donald Trump put out such a brief and declarative statement.

But it’s fair to say that much of what the Iranians were putting forward – trying to end the US naval blockade, trying to deal with sanctions, trying to deal with any restrictions put on Iran’s nuclear ambitions – all of those things have been rejected by the US president.

Iranian officials are not speaking clearly about what is in the proposal.

But we know what’s being circulated in local media – especially the semi-official Tasnim news agency – speaking clearly about what’s in the response. They’re citing highly informed sources.

The text emphasises Iran’s urgent need to end the war, and guarantees against further aggression toward Iran.

Additionally, Iran’s text emphasises the necessity of lifting US sanctions and Iranian management of the Strait of Hormuz, contingent on fulfilling certain commitments of the United States.

The release of Iran’s frozen assets during a 30-day period is also part of Iran’s text. Then they can jump to another sticking point after that 30 days – which is the nuclear issue.

But at this stage, Iran doesn’t offer to negotiate over its nuclear programme.

So Iran is saying simply that they’re open to negotiating – but let’s sequence the resolution.

Volunteers at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza have planted olive trees as a symbol of hope in the courtyard where more than 500 bodies were recovered from mass graves.

Once Gaza’s largest medical complex, al-Shifa was devastated and besieged by repeated attacks during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Watch our report below:

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has railed against the attacks earlier today reported in Qatari, Kuwaiti and Emirati territories.

Riyadh demanded an “immediate halt to the blatant attacks on the territories and territorial waters of the Gulf states, and to any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz”, the ministry said in a statement.

The UAE said its air defences intercepted two drones that were launched from Iran, while Kuwait reported “hostile drones” in its airspace this morning. Qatar said a cargo ship was targeted in its territorial waters.

Here is a summary of the most recent events:

• US President Donald Trump has accused Iran of “playing games” in his first public comment since Iran responded to the US ceasefire proposal.

• Iranian diplomat Kazem Gharibabadi has warned against the deployment of European warships in the Strait of Hormuz, saying that any deployment of French, British or other foreign vessels would be “unlawful” and “met with a decisive and immediate response”.

• French President Emmanuel Macron has said Paris has “never considered” deploying naval forces to the Strait of Hormuz, instead backing a coordinated security approach that includes Iran.

• Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the Iran war is “not over”, and that Tehran’s nuclear materials, enrichment sites and proxies need to be dismantled before the war can come to a close.
• US Central Command says its forces have “redirected” 61 commercial vessels and disabled four others during their ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
• The Trump administration is open to suspending the federal gas tax to lower prices at the pump, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the NBC News programme “Meet the Press”.