Iran-Israel War News Today LIVE Updates: Trump Says US Could End Iran War In ‘Two To Three Weeks’

U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday that American military operations in Iran could maybe give up “very soon,” suggesting a timeline of about two to three weeks as Washington continues each military motion and diplomatic outreach.

Speaking on the White Home, Trump acknowledged, “All I surely settle on to construct is rush away Iran, and we’ll be doing that very soon,” including that U.S. forces are terminate to ending their aims. “We’re ending the job, and I judge internal maybe two weeks, maybe a few days longer, to construct the job,” he acknowledged.

Pope Leo urged U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday to verify up on an “off-ramp” to give up the Iran warfare, in a rare negate enchantment from the pontiff as the regional warfare expands.

“I’m told that President Trump has only within the near previous stated that he would fancy to give up the warfare,” acknowledged Leo, the fundamental pope from the USA.

“Confidently he’s making an strive to search out an off-ramp,” the pope told journalists outdoors his put of residing in Castel Gandolfo, come Rome. “Confidently he’s making an strive to search out lower the amount of violence.”

In an announcement, US Assistant Secretary of Enlighten for Global Public Affairs Dylan Johnson acknowledged the Department of Enlighten is aware of the reported kidnapping of a US journalist in Baghdad.

“The Enlighten Department beforehand fulfilled our accountability to warn this person of threats against them and we can proceed to coordinate with the FBI to make certain that their free up as rapid as that which which you could to maybe judge,” he acknowledged.

Johnson added that a person with alleged ties to Kataib Hezbollah who is suspected of involvement within the kidnapping has been taken into custody by Iraqi authorities.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged on Tuesday his country had the “most fundamental will” to give up the ongoing warfare with Israel and the USA, however became searching for ensures that the warfare would now not be repeated.

“We own the most fundamental will to give up this warfare, on condition that a truly considerable stipulations are met — in particular the ensures required to stop repetition of the aggression,” Pezeshkian acknowledged in a phone dialog with the president of the European Council, in step with an announcement from his office, reiterating a key seek info from of Tehran’s.

American journalist Shelly Kittleson has reportedly been abducted in Baghdad, Iraq, in step with a record shared by Iran Global English, citing Al-Hadath.

The record acknowledged Iraqi security forces own arrested certainly one of many alleged kidnappers, though no reliable statement had been issued at once by Iraqi authorities or the US authorities on the time of reporting.

The United Countries rights chief slammed Tuesday the Israeli parliament’s approval of a “deeply discriminatory” fresh loss of life penalty invoice, warning that making use of it on occupied Palestinian territory “would record a warfare crime”.

The fresh law, which could maybe invent the loss of life penalty the default punishment for Palestinians within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution figured out responsible of intentionally finishing up lethal assaults deemed “acts of terrorism” by an Israeli military court docket, “is patently inconsistent with Israel’s global law duties”, Volker Turk acknowledged in an announcement.

“Its application to residents of the occupied Palestinian territory would record a warfare crime,” he acknowledged.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office acknowledged Tuesday it became “greatly surprised” by US President Donald Trump’s criticism of France, stressing the country’s characteristic on US military overflights had now not changed.

“France has now not changed its characteristic since day one,” the presidency acknowledged.

“We are greatly surprised by this tweet,” it acknowledged, relating to Trump’s social media submit in which he accused France of being “very unhelpful” within the US-Israeli warfare on Iran and now not allowing planes carrying military gives to “jog over French territory”.

Iran’s Modern Guards acknowledged on Tuesday that they’d goal leading US know-how companies fancy Apple, Google and Meta if extra Iranian leaders had been killed in “targeted assassinations”.

“These companies, initiating from 8:00 pm (1630 GMT) Tehran time on Wednesday, April 1, could maybe own to silent anticipate the destruction of their connected fashions in alternate for every assassination in Iran,” the Guards acknowledged in an announcement list the names of 18 companies it alleged had been complicit within the “targeted assassination” of officers.

“We recommend the staff of those institutions to at once rush away their areas of work to defend their lives,” it added.

Two Indian nationals had been amongst four other folks injured on Tuesday after debris from an air defence missile interception fell on residential structures in Dubai’s Al Badaa characteristic.

The diversified two injured had been one Bangladeshi and one Sri Lankan national. All four sustained minor accidents, in step with reliable statements.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino told AFP Tuesday that Iran “will probably be on the World Cup” despite the Center East warfare.

“Iran will probably be on the World Cup… That’s why we’re here. We’re happy because they’re a truly, very tough team, I’m very cosy,” Infantino acknowledged at half-time of Iran’s pleasant against Costa Rica in Turkey.

The Iranian soccer federation acknowledged earlier this month it became “negotiating” with FIFA to relocate the country’s World Cup suits from the USA to Mexico, in consequence of the US and Israel’s warfare with Iran.

As the stress in West Asia continues to intensify, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen Dan Caine, Joint Chiefs Chairman, declared at a news convention on Tuesday that “the upcoming days will probably be decisive” within the warfare with Iran.

Hegseth acknowledged “Battle in West Asia will give up ideal on Trump’s terms.” He additional added that the key within the ongoing warfare is to “be unpredictable”.

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A strike in western Iraq killed two warring parties from the earlier paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi on Tuesday, the alliance acknowledged, blaming the US and Israel.

“This noxious assault resulted within the martyrdom of two warring parties and the wounding of 4 others,” the statement acknowledged, of the strike that targeted a checkpoint in Anbar province.

The alliance will probably be is named the Standard Mobilisation Forces (PMF), and is now allotment of Iraq’s licensed military even supposing it furthermore contains official-Iran factions.

More than one explosions rattled the Saudi capital Riyadh on Tuesday, in step with an AFP journalist, the most fresh apparent barrage focusing on town as Iran carries out assaults one day of the Gulf space.

An AFP journalist heard now not lower than two blasts echo over town. The kingdom has been targeted on a licensed foundation with drones and missiles one day of the last month.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday rejected as “entirely baseless” stories that the Islamic republic had fired missiles at Turkey and equipped to collectively evaluate the grief.

In a phone name alongside with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan, Araghchi warned against “spurious-flag operations by enemies” and acknowledged Iran became “spellbinding for joint technical cooperation to stare any that which which you could to maybe judge scream”, in step with an announcement by the Iranian foreign ministry.

On Monday, Turkey’s defence ministry acknowledged NATO forces had intercepted a fresh missile fired from Iran — the fourth for the rationale that launch of the Center East warfare.

The next days of the Iran warfare will probably be “decisive,” Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth — who revealed he had visited US troops within the Center East over the weekend — acknowledged Tuesday.

“The upcoming days will probably be decisive. Iran knows that, and there’s virtually nothing they can militarily construct about it,” Hegseth told a news convention, his first in with regards to 2 weeks.

Defence Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday acknowledged Israel’s military would own a swathe of southern Lebanon even after the tip of the present warfare against the Hezbollah armed team.

“On the tip of the operation, the IDF will put itself in a security zone internal Lebanon, on a defensive line against anti-tank missiles, and could maybe defend security defend a watch on over the total characteristic as much as the Litani,” Katz acknowledged in a video statement revealed by his ministry, relating to a river spherical 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the border.

EU chief Antonio Costa on Tuesday urged Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian in a phone name to pause assaults on regional neighbours and have interaction with diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

“To de-escalate the scenario, I urged Iran to pause the unacceptable assaults on international locations within the space and to have interaction positively on the diplomatic observe, particularly with the UN to make certain that the freedom of navigation within the Strait of Hormuz,” European Council president Costa wrote on X.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday told international locations facing oil shortages from disruptions on the Strait of Hormuz to either “purchase from the US” or “construct up some delayed courage” and stable their very possess gives from the vital waterway.

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Qatar on Tuesday clarified that it’s now not in any appreciate times at once all for mediation efforts over the Center East warfare. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson acknowledged the country’s focal point stays on defending its fatherland, while declaring communications with all parties, including mediators and diversified regional avid gamers.

He added that Qatar thoroughly supports Pakistan’s ongoing peace initiatives and hopes these efforts will lead to lasting balance and security within the space.

The Gulf states are unified in calling for a de-escalation of the Center East warfare, Qatar acknowledged Tuesday as Tehran launched fresh strikes against its neighbours.

“Our working out is that there could be a truly unified characteristic within the Gulf on calling for the de-escalation and an give as much as the warfare,” Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari told a licensed news briefing.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday acknowledged that Washington’s plans to unfurl regime substitute in Iran and Venezuela had been geared toward gaining extra defend a watch on over oil and gas property.

Lavrov acknowledged the USA and Israel didn’t settle on normalisation between Iran and its neighbours, and cautioned that the warfare within the Center East could maybe spiral proper into a noteworthy wider warfare.

Asia faces the gravest fallout from the warfare on Iran and is confronting a fundamental energy crisis, a global maritime analytics agency warned in an interview with AFP on Tuesday.

“We judge Asia will, for now, be the ones struggling primarily the most,” Kpler president Jean Maynier told AFP on the company’s areas of work in Singapore.

He acknowledged the continent didn’t own ample energy property of its possess to disguise the gap, including: “This could maybe now not be ample in China, this could maybe now not be ample to disguise in huge international locations fancy the Philippines or Indonesia. So it’s an precise energy crisis.”

Eurozone inflation rose sharply in March, reaching its perfect stage since January 2025, pushed largely by a surge in energy costs linked to the ongoing Center East warfare.

The European Union has warned that in consequence, the bloc is prone to a “stagflationary shock” — when slower boost coincides with elevated inflation.

User costs rose by 2.5 percent in March, sharply up from 1.9 percent in February, the EU’s statistics agency acknowledged.

Iranian media on Tuesday reported that initial investigations indicated strikes in central Iran had hit some “military websites”, without specifying the areas.

Not lower than 10 blasts had been heard over Jerusalem on Tuesday, AFP reported.