Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said Tehran has finalized its demands in response to recent peace efforts and will reveal them at an appropriate time. He described the 15-point US peace plan conveyed to Iran through Pakistan and other intermediaries as “excessive, unrealistic, and unreasonable”.
Fighting in the Middle East continues to intensify. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to press ahead with strikes on Iranian infrastructure.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its intelligence chief, Majid Khademi, was killed in an airstrike earlier in the day. The IRGC also said it had targeted the US amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7), which was carrying more than 5,000 troops, as well as the Israeli container vessel SDN7, causing a large fire.
Several explosions were reported on Monday afternoon at Iran’s largest gas complex in Asaluyeh. Israeli Defense Minister Katz said the strike caused damage worth tens of billions of dollars.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the conflict is widening geographically and warned of serious consequences for the global economy.
European Council President Antonio Costa condemned attacks on civilian infrastructure, particularly energy facilities, calling them “illegal and unacceptable” and said a negotiated solution is the only way to end the conflict.
On social media platform X, Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, urged all sides to halt attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning that further strikes could pose a serious threat to nuclear safety.
