Iran-US war latest: Trump demands more countries sign peace agreements with Israel as ...

Donald Trump has demanded that countries including Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey sign peace agreements with Israel as part on an effort to end the Iran war.

Mr Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to say that progress had been made on a draft agreement with Iran but that he would only accept a “great deal for all or no deal at all”.

He said he told world leaders on a call on Saturday: “After all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together, it should be mandatory that all of these countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords”.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Monday that the US will either have a good agreement with Iran or deal with the country “another way”. There was a "pretty solid thing on the table in terms of their ability to open up the strait, get the strait open, enter into a very real, significant, time-limited negotiation on the nuclear matter, and hopefully we can pull it off," Mr Rubio said.

Iran's top negotiator and its foreign minister were in Doha for talks with Qatar's prime minister on a potential deal with the US to end the three-month-old war, an official briefed on the visit said on Monday.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a weekly briefing on Monday that a conclusion had been reached on many topics in the peace deal, but that does not mean that "we're close to signing an agreement".

The official ⁠briefed on the Iranians' Doha visit said that the discussions were focused primarily on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, while the country's central bank governor ​is also part of ⁠the delegation to the potential release of frozen Iranian funds as part ‌of a final deal.

Farmers across Sudan say the hike in global fuel and fertiliser costs resulting from the Iran conflict will force them to cut back on planting this summer, restricting food production in a country where war has caused acute hunger.

Eight farmers from different parts of Sudan, as well as experts working in the sector, told news agency Reuters that fuel and fertiliser price increases would compound problems caused by a civil war, hitting staple domestic crops such as sorghum and millet as well as exports like sesame.

Sudan is particularly vulnerable to the fallout from the Iran crisis as it relies on the Gulf for more than half of its fertiliser needs, according to UN data, while the war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has left it entirely dependent on fuel imports. The country is also already at the forefront of a looming global food crisis at a time of shrinking aid budgets.

19.5 million people, more than 40 per cent of the population, are facing crisis levels of hunger.

Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access, Iranian ⁠state media reported on Monday, citing an official after a near-90-day blackout in the wake of the war against the US and Israel.

The report cited ⁠the head of public ​relations ⁠at Iran’s Communications Ministry.

The mechanism for how and when Iran would reconnect ⁠to the global web following the decision was ​unknown.

Most ⁠Iranians have been ‌unable to access the worldwide web for 87 days according to the internet observatory ‌NetBlocks on Monday, with only a ‌few citizens having access to expensive and advanced VPNs that circumvent the restrictions.

Authorities initially imposed an internet ⁠blackout from 8 January in response to nationwide anti-government protests, with connections gradually getting back to normal in February, before a new blackout was initiated following the start of U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran on 28 February.

In ‌normal times, access to the ​global internet remains heavily restricted via censorship ‌of many websites, ⁠while authorities are increasingly relying on an ⁠intranet to provide connected services without relying on the ‌worldwide web, ​notably for schools which are ‌currently following an online curriculum.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio was caught off guard when confronted racist remarks made against Indians in the US during his visit to the South Asian country to reset fraying ties.

During a joint press conference involving the US secretary of state in New Delhi on Sunday, a reporter appears to have indirectly raised president Donald Trump’s endorsement of an American podcaster’s remarks describing India as a “hellhole”.

Mr Trump had shared the “hellhole” remark on his Truth Social platform, prompting India’s government to denounce it as inappropriate and “in poor taste”.

“We have a lot of racist coming from the United States against Indians, Indian Americans. This goes against the basic premise of the India-US relationship. What’s your take on that?” Mr Rubio was asked during the press conference after his talks with Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar.

“Who made those ?” Mr Rubio asked. “Which ones?”

The Indian reporter responded that the were “pretty well known” and that “we have seen endorsement of those ”, without specifying what he was referring to.

Mr Rubio then offered a general answer saying that there were stupid people everywhere. “I don’t know how to address that but I’ll take that very seriously, the ,” he said.

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The US and Iran ⁠are discussing a plan to ⁠open ​the ⁠Strait of ⁠Hormuz ​30 ⁠days ‌after the two countries reach ‌a deal ‌to end ⁠hostilities, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday citing a ‌Middle ​East ‌diplomatic ⁠source.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told confidants in private conversations that Israel has little ability to influence Donald Trump's decision-making on Iran as the US president negotiates a deal in the nearly three-month-old war, two sources told news agency Reuters .

Mr Netanyahu's , described by two Israeli officials with knowledge of the conversations, come as Israel has largely been left out of talks to reach an initial deal to halt a war that began with joint US-Israeli bombardment.

Both the US and Iran have played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough in talks, and they remain at odds over Iran's nuclear ambitions, Tehran's demands for the lifting of sanctions and Israel's war in Lebanon with Hezbollah militants.

Mr Netanyahu is demanding the right to continue operations against perceived threats on all fronts, including Lebanon, a caveat that could derail a deal if Iran insists on a complete halt to Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon.

President Donald Trump has lashed out at “losers who know nothing” after senior Republicans turned on his reported plan to end the war in Iran .

Ted Cruz , Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo were among the critics after details of the proposal emerged over the weekend , warning it could be a “disaster” that ultimately emboldens Tehran.

“If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of CASH, and a clear and open path to a Nuclear Weapon,” the president posted on Truth Social late Sunday.

“Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is. It isn’t even fully negotiated yet.

“So don’t listen to the losers, who are critical something they know nothing . Unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago, I don’t make bad deals!”

President Donald Trump went on a Truth Social posting blitz Sunday morning, sharing AI-generated images of former President Barack Obama and other political enemies in prison — as well as a picture of bombs being dropped on Iranian ships.

Trump shared what appeared to be mugshots of Obama, former FBI Director James Comey, and six others, arranged in a way similar to the opening credits of The Brady Bunch . However, instead of the show’s title in the centre, the image read: “The Shady Bunch.”

“This is a bad (Sick!) group of people. Very destructive to our great Nation. Caused tremendous damage through Weaponization!” Trump posted on Sunday morning.

Trump then shared a series of images of himself and Chinese President Xi Jinping - including one in which he claimed “President Trump gets YOUNGER” - before posting the AI-generated image of bombs being dropped on Iranian ships. That image had the word “Adios” written across the top.

The Abraham Accords were a series of diplomatic and commercial agreements forged with US influence between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain during Donald Trump's first term.

The accords represent the first normalisation of relations between Israel and Arab states since agreements between Israel and Jordan in 1994 and Israel and Egypt in 1979.

Morocco later signed the accords, and Sudan signed the declaration.