Trump specifies time when Iran deadline will end

US President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to extend by 24 hours his deadline for Iran to make a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face devastating infrastructure attacks.

"Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!" he simply said on his Truth Social platform.

The new deadline, 0000 GMT Wednesday, would mean another day for Tehran to attempt to placate the mercurial US leader or risk him following through on a threat to destroy the country's power plants and bridges.

Iran has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz shipping lane, a vital route for the world's oil and gas, since the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign on February 28.

Trump, who has held no public events since an address to the nation on Wednesday, seemed to confirm the new timing in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

"We are in a position that's very strong, and that country will take 20 years to rebuild, if they're lucky, if they have a country," he told the Journal Sunday.

"And if they don't do something by Tuesday evening, they won't have any power plants and they won't have any bridges standing."

The US president did a string of short interviews with media outlets after he announced the dramatic rescue of a US airman -- and issued an expletive-laden ultimatum to the Islamic republic to free up the strategic waterway or risk a fierce US attack.

He told Fox News he believes there is a "good chance" of making a deal with Iran on Monday.

"I think there is a good chance tomorrow, they are negotiating now," the president said.

"If they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil," he added.

In the same interview, Trump said he had given Iranian negotiators "immunity from death" -- and said they had conceded that Tehran would not move ahead with the development of nuclear weapons.

"The big thing is they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. They're not even negotiating that point, it's so easy," he said.

"That's already been conceded. Most of the points are conceded."

In an interview with ABC News, Trump said the conflict should end in "days, not weeks," but warned that without some kind of agreement with Tehran, there was "very little" that would be considered off-limits in terms of US action.

Earlier, US-Israeli strikes hit an airport in southwestern Iran on Sunday, state media reported. "The Shahid (Qasem) Soleimani international airport was hit in an airstrike carried out by US and Zionist forces," the official IRNA news agency said, citing the deputy governor of Khuzestan province, Valiollah Hayati.

US President Donald Trump threatened in an expletive-laden social media post Sunday to strike Iran's power plants and bridges if the Strait of Hormuz was not reopened the next day.

Following an 48-hour ultimatum he issued on Saturday, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!"

"Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!" wrote the president, adding: "Praise be to Allah."

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he believes there is a "good chance" of making a deal with Iran on Monday, ahead of his deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face heavy bombing.

"I think there is a good chance tomorrow, they are negotiating now," the president told a Fox News journalist. "If they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil," he added. 

Iran parliament speaker warns Trump 'whole region going to burn'

Iran's powerful parliament speaker warned US President Donald Trump on Sunday that his "reckless moves" would mean "our whole region is going to burn".

"Your reckless moves are dragging the United States into a living HELL for every single family, and our whole region is going to burn because you insist on following Netanyahu's commands," Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote in an X post in English, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ghalibaf added that the "only real solution is respecting the rights of the Iranian people and ending this dangerous game".

Israeli strike on south Beirut kills 4, wounds 39: ministry

An Israeli strike on south Beirut killed at least four people and wounded 39 on Sunday, the Lebanese health ministry said in a preliminary toll.

The strike hit near Lebanon's largest public hospital, where an AFP team later saw around 20 people leaving the facility, some in tears, as smoke rose from the area and Israeli warplanes were heard overhead.

The area lies adjacent to Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

Israeli strikes on south Beirut and its suburbs killed at least four people on Sunday, a day after Israel threatened to hit Lebanon's main border crossing with Syria, forcing it to close.

The Israeli military also carried out deadly attacks on Lebanon's south, one of which killed seven people including a family of six.

Israel has launched airstrikes across Lebanon as well as a ground invasion in the south since March 2, when armed group Hezbollah entered the war in the Middle East on the side of its backer Iran.

Hezbollah on Sunday claimed to have fired a cruise missile at an Israeli warship off the coast, but the Israeli military told AFP it was "not aware" of such an incident.

One of Israel's strikes in Beirut on Sunday killed at least four people and wounded 39 in the Jnah neighbourhood, the Lebanese health ministry said.

It landed about 100 metres away from a public hospital, a medical source told AFP.

Another attack struck a building elsewhere in Jnah that the Israeli military had warned it would target.

An AFP photographer in the area saw a missile hit one building as Israeli warplanes flew at low altitude over the capital.

Israel also launched several strikes on the nearby southern suburbs, an area now largely evacuated but where Hezbollah holds sway.

In a statement, the military warned it had "begun striking Hezbollah infrastructure sites".

On Saturday, Israel had said it would target the Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, the main gateway between the two countries.

"Due to Hezbollah's use of the Masnaa crossing for military purposes and smuggling of combat equipment, the (Israeli army) intends to carry out strikes on the crossing in the near future," said the military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee, urging people to leave the area.

The border post was quickly evacuated on the Lebanese side and the site was virtually deserted early Sunday, with only a few guards still on duty, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.

In Syria, borders and customs public relations director Mazen Aloush insisted that the crossing, known as Jdeidet Yabous on the Syrian side, was "exclusively for civilian use and is not used for any military purposes".

Aloush said traffic through the crossing would be temporarily suspended due to the Israeli threat. Masnaa is a vital trade route for both countries and a key gateway to the rest of the region for Lebanese people.

Military expert Hassan Jouni told AFP that Israel's threat to strike the crossing "is not based on sound security considerations, but rather aims to pressure the Lebanese government... to disarm Hezbollah".

Israel previously struck the facility in October 2024, during another war with the militant group.

The gateway then remained closed until Lebanese and Syrian authorities began repair work after a ceasefire the following month.

At another border crossing further north known as Jousieh, an AFP correspondent on Sunday saw a long line of cars and vans waiting to enter Syria as people sought an alternative route.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the start of the war have killed more than 1,400 people, including 126 children, and displaced over a million, according to Lebanese authorities.

In the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Hatta, far from the border with Israel, an Israeli strike killed seven people including a four-year-old girl, the health ministry said Sunday.

The Israeli army had issued an evacuation warning for the town on Saturday evening.

A source from Lebanon's civil defence told AFP that a family of six who had been displaced from a town further south were waiting for a relative to pick them up in a vehicle when they were killed. The relative also perished in the strike. An AFP photographer saw at least eight homes destroyed by attacks in Kfar Hatta. As Israeli troops push into border areas in southern Lebanon, destroying villages, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reiterated his call for talks with Israel, saying he wanted to spare his country's south from destruction on the scale seen in Gaza.

"Why don't we negotiate... until we can at least save the homes that have not yet been destroyed?" he said in a televised address on Sunday.

 Pro-Iran groups attack US diplomatic sites in Iraq: embassy

Pro-Iran armed groups carried out two attacks on US diplomatic sites in Iraq overnight, the US embassy in Baghdad said Sunday.

"Iraqi terrorist militias affiliated with Iran conducted two more egregious attacks against US diplomatic facilities in Iraq overnight in an attempt to kill American diplomats," an embassy spokesperson said in a statement.

US-Israeli strikes hit airport in southwestern Iran: state media

US-Israeli strikes hit an airport in southwestern Iran on Sunday, state media reported. "The Shahid (Qasem) Soleimani international airport was hit in an airstrike carried out by US and Zionist forces," the official IRNA news agency said, citing the deputy governor of Khuzestan province, Valiollah Hayati.