Live - Yemen forces say four Iranian drone, missile experts killed

Iran will not surrender to the United States and will “stand firm,” Basij chief Hossein Taeb said, citing the Strait of Hormuz and its role in global oil supplies.

“It is not that we will say we surrender. No, we will stand firm,” Taeb said. “Just as the nation has stood for the past half-century, we will stand firmly and united.”

“The Strait of Hormuz has been closed,” Taeb said, adding that 20 million barrels of the 102 million barrels of oil consumed globally each day normally pass through the waterway.

Taeb said the United States was drawing on its reserves and trying to move several ships through the strait each night to contain increases in oil and fuel prices.

Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf cited higher oil prices on Sunday to challenge the US position that Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz.

“The market prices a big premium, $35 over pre-invasion and $50 using dated/actual,” Ghalibaf wrote on X.

“So either the market’s dumb or the US narrative-laundromat is faking it,” he added. “Free-dollar vending machine in Hormuz for believers. Go grab it.”

Four Iranian experts specializing in operating and launching drones and missiles were killed in Yemen’s Taiz province, a spokesperson for Yemen’s armed forces said.

The deaths occurred during 756 operations against Houthi forces over the past 72 hours, Colonel Majid Abdullah Al-Nuzaili said, according to Yemen’s Saba news agency.

The Iranian experts’ presence further demonstrated Iran’s continued provision of support and expertise to the Houthis, Al-Nuzaili said.

Iran’s parliament is unlikely to approve an urgent proposal to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, with the measure potentially securing no more than 70 votes, a member of parliament’s National Security Committee said on Sunday.

Leaving the NPT during wartime would effectively mean pursuing a nuclear weapon, something Iran does not intend to do, Mohammad Mehdi Shahriari told Jamaran. Withdrawal would only increase costs and further escalate the situation, he added.

Shahriari said the Supreme National Security Council and Ali Khamenei had previously opposed leaving the treaty, while Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei had also stressed that Iran should refrain from building nuclear weapons.

The proposal to withdraw from the NPT and separate efforts to impeach the foreign minister and several other ministers would each receive “perhaps 70 votes at most,” Shahriari said.

Some people were systematically sending messages to lawmakers to encourage them to support such measures, Shahriari added, calling on the Intelligence Ministry and Revolutionary Guards intelligence organization to investigate.

People who “have no understanding of economic problems” and whose “tables have grown larger” under sanctions are continually obstructing negotiations, Shahriari said.

The threat level in the Strait of Hormuz remains “severe” as Revolutionary Guards activity against commercial shipping continues, the Joint Maritime Information Center said in an advisory on Sunday.

“IRGC attacks, attempted attacks, and/or harassment activity persisted including UAV overflight, targeted surveillance of merchant shipping, and occasional VHF hailing,” JMIC said.

The activity demonstrated “Iran’s intent to assert presence along key transit lanes and maintain pressure on transiting vessels,” according to the advisory.

No confirmed attacks or disruptions were reported in the Strait of Hormuz over the 72 hours, while commercial traffic remained below 2025 levels, it added.

US Coast Guard data showed traffic averaging 30 vessel transits per day over the 72 hours, JMIC said.

The United States should continue sanctions and its blockade of Iran while seeking either to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or escalate its response, Republican Senator John Kennedy said on CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday.

“We need to continue doing what we're doing. The sanctions, the blockade,” Kennedy said, after describing a recent Iranian proposal to President Donald Trump as not serious.

“The truth is, if you're fair minded at all, Iran is a sucking chest wound and the world is safer for it. Its public and private sector is held together with duct tape and spit,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy said the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz had pushed up oil prices and was feeding into higher costs, including gasoline.

Bahrain’s defense forces intercepted more than 1,000 Iranian missile and drone strikes during the war, Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said.

Bahrain has prepared 35 emergency shelters with capacity for more than 40,000 people across the country, the official Bahrain News Agency cited Al Khalifa as saying during a joint government-parliament meeting on measures responding to the Iranian strikes.

“The war and military operations have not yet ended,” Al Khalifa said, calling for Bahrain to continue strengthening its preparedness.

Iranian patients are paying between 55% and 75% of healthcare costs out of pocket this year, while prices for some medicines have risen by 400% to 500%, the head of parliament’s Health and Treatment Committee said.

Some state hospitals are also 10 to 12 months behind on payments, Hosseinali Shahriari told parliament’s website on Sunday.

There have been reports of patients being asked to obtain clothing and some hospitalization supplies themselves, Shahriari said, describing such a situation as “very strange and worrying” and linking it to hospitals’ lack of financial resources.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a short video on X showing slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, former Hezbollah cheif Hassan Nasrallah and former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar surrounded by flames.

“Two years ago today, we took out Nasrallah. Happy holiday to the people of Israel!” Netanyahu wrote.

Iran is prepared to confront another war even if it escalates into a “doomsday war,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.

“We stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even if it comes to a doomsday war,” Araghchi said.

Araghchi said Iran had learned lessons from two wars and changed its tactics, adding that it remained open to diplomacy.

“We have corrected our tactics. We have changed our tactics, and we are fully prepared to do that,” he said.