The Latest Breaking News from Iran

The summit concluded with a broadly worded statement in which leaders of the G7 unanimously agreed that Iran cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon and called for de-escalation in the Middle East.

A human rights group says Israeli strikes have killed at least 585 people across Iran and wounded 1,326 others

Crude oil prices jump more than 4 percent on fears the US may join Israel’s offensive against Iran.

Oil prices stabilised Wednesday after surging the previous day on fears of a US intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict sparked by Donald Trump calling for Tehran's "unconditional surrender".

Australian shares have continued to slip, as global growth concerns push miners lower and the ongoing Middle East conflict weighs on investor confidence.

US President Donald Trump says diplomatic talks are still an option for Iran as he offers to send Vice President JD Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff to resume talks with the Iranians amid heightened regional tensions and cross-border attacks.

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of Iran, whose security services brutalized Iranian citizens for decades.

An Arab town in northern Israel paid a heavy price for the ongoing air war between Iran and Israel when a ballistic missile slammed into a home there, killing four people and upending life in the small community.

The U.S. is shifting military aircraft and warships into and around the Middle East to protect Israel from Iranian attacks

US president demanded ‘unconditional surrender’ from Tehran as Israel’s war on Iran appeared to reach crucial moment – key US politics stories from Tuesday at a glance

Mr Trump met with his National Security Council in the White House’s situation room shortly after a series of sabre-rattling social media posts.