Middle East live: Iran issues list of demands for reopening Strait of Hormuz
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Iran has issued a list of demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, including war reparations and US acceptance of specific conditions. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed to maintain closure of the waterway until Washington accepts all Iranian requirements.
09/08/2026 - 13:30
Iran to release footage of Supreme Leader in the future, Iranian news outlet reports
Footage of Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei "among the people and out in streets, as well in meetings with the commanders of armed forces" will be released in the future, Basij Organisation deputy Qasem Qoraishi was reported on Sunday as saying.
Khamenei, who was appointed supreme leader in March, has not been seen in public since his appointment.
The report on the Iranian judiciary's news outlet Mizan appeared to be aimed at quashing speculation about his health. Senior Iranian sources have said he suffered facial disfigurement and other injuries in the strike that killed his father on February 28, the first day of US and Israeli air strikes on Iran.
09/08/2026 - 13:13
Netanyahu vows Iran will 'not have nuclear weapons', with or without deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons, a goal he has long alleged Tehran is pursuing, regardless of the course of diplomacy with Washington and Arab states.
"I want to emphasise once again: with an agreement or without an agreement, as long as I am prime minister, Iran will not have nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting.
09/08/2026 - 13:12
Netanyahu vows no Gaza pullout until Hamas 'genuinely disarmed'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a Gaza plan hailed by US President Donald Trump, vowing no military pullout until Hamas is "genuinely" disarmed.
"Israel rejects the 15-point document. The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and our citizens," Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, referring to the Israeli military.
09/08/2026 - 13:11
Netanyahu says Israel 'rejects' US Gaza plan endorsed by Hamas
09/08/2026 - 12:26
Iran-backed Houthis say targeted Saudi forces in Yemen
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday said they had targeted "Saudi enemy" troops and equipment on Yemen's Red Sea coast city of Mokha after residents there said they heard blasts.
The group's military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had "carried out a large-scale and precise military operation targeting Saudi enemy troop concentrations and weapons depots in the Mokha area," using "a large number of ballistic missiles and drones".
09/08/2026 - 12:01
IRGC says Hormuz won't reopen until US accepts Iran's conditions
Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has said they will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the US accepts all of Tehran's demands.
"Our current strategy is to maintain this strait until the enemy accepts all our conditions," said Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi, as quoted by state TV, adding that "the strait is now actually a theatre of war for us and not just a waterway".
09/08/2026 - 10:50
Iran says talks with US won't happen while interim MoU is breached
Iran and the US are not engaged in talks and Tehran will not start them as long as Washington breaches an interim deal signed in June, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said, referring to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the US and Iran.
Araghchi explained that messages between Iran and the US are being exchanged via intermediaries.
Araghchi repeated Tehran's position that an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman was in the "final stages" but would not reopen the strategic waterway. In comments reported by Mehr news agency, he said the agreement would set out the new shipping lanes to be used once the US fulfils other conditions and the strait is reopened to traffic.
09/08/2026 - 09:08
Many of Iran’s demands ‘already agreed to’ by US in June MoU
Iran on Saturday issued a list of demands for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which several US media organisations have characterised as “new” preconditions.
Reporting from Washington DC, FRANCE 24’s Fraser Jackson notes that many of the demands were “already agreed to by the US in the [Islamabad] Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed back in June” between Iran and the US. “The difficulty was that the language then was quite broad, and the implementation was the problem,” Fraser explains.
A final deal requires an implementation timeframe and that has several "sticking points", Fraser notes.
09/08/2026 - 08:49
Yemen's Houthis say struck refinery on Saudi's Red Sea coast
Yemen's Houthis say they have attacked an Aramco refinery in Jazan on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast.
The group's military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had "succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in Jazan with a drone, and the strike was precise", adding the attack had been launched in response to Saudi incursions into territory in northwest Yemen.
09/08/2026 - 07:04
Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi defence pact technically same as NATO's Article 5, Fidan says
The Mecca defence pact signed between Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is technically the same as
NATO's Article 5 mutual defence agreement, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Saturday, adding the accord was not targeting Iran.
Speaking to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Fidan said a committee of ministers similar to that within NATO would be formed as part of the alliance, as well as a general secretariat based in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed the agreement on Friday
09/08/2026 - 06:59
Fire extinguished at Aramco refinery in Jazan, Saudi Arabia says
Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out early Sunday at a facility at Aramco's Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Energy Ministry said, adding that there were no injuries.
Aramco's industrial security teams had brought the fire under control and the relevant authorities were completing procedures to deal with the incident, the ministry said on X. It did not say what caused the fire.
Jazan is on the Red Sea near the border with Yemen.
The Jazan refinery processes 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day and produces refined products including gasoline and ultra-light sulfur diesel.
Aramco shut down the refinery on July 27 following an attack by Yemen's Houthi militants that damaged the plant's Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) complex and tank farm area, according to a note from consultancy IIR seen by Reuters.
The Houthis said at the time they had struck Aramco sites in Jazan and Yanbu. The attacks raised the prospect that threats to Red Sea shipping and Saudi oil infrastructure could widen global disruption stemming from the US war against Iran and Iranian attacks on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz.
09/08/2026 - 06:55
Turkey says expects Egypt to join Mecca defence pact
Turkey's foreign minister has said he expected Egypt to join a joint defence agreement with regional partners designed to stabilise the region that is grappling with the Middle East war.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed the agreement on Friday against the backdrop of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which has drawn in surrounding nations and disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told state news agency Anadolu he expected Egypt to join the "Mecca Joint Defence Agreement", calling the country a "natural partner on all issues".
"I believe that at the next stage Egypt will also be among us in the alliance. We already act toward one another as if we were alliance members," he said in an interview.
"There are a few technical issues. Once these are implemented, there is no reason for Egypt not to be part of it."
09/08/2026 - 06:53
Iran's list of demands for reopening Hormuz includes compensation for war damages
Iran on Saturday set preconditions for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, including compensation for war damages.
Iranian security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr s
Iran to release footage of Supreme Leader in the future, Iranian news outlet reports
Footage of Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei "among the people and out in streets, as well in meetings with the commanders of armed forces" will be released in the future, Basij Organisation deputy Qasem Qoraishi was reported on Sunday as saying.
Khamenei, who was appointed supreme leader in March, has not been seen in public since his appointment.
The report on the Iranian judiciary's news outlet Mizan appeared to be aimed at quashing speculation about his health. Senior Iranian sources have said he suffered facial disfigurement and other injuries in the strike that killed his father on February 28, the first day of US and Israeli air strikes on Iran.
09/08/2026 - 13:13
Netanyahu vows Iran will 'not have nuclear weapons', with or without deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons, a goal he has long alleged Tehran is pursuing, regardless of the course of diplomacy with Washington and Arab states.
"I want to emphasise once again: with an agreement or without an agreement, as long as I am prime minister, Iran will not have nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting.
09/08/2026 - 13:12
Netanyahu vows no Gaza pullout until Hamas 'genuinely disarmed'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a Gaza plan hailed by US President Donald Trump, vowing no military pullout until Hamas is "genuinely" disarmed.
"Israel rejects the 15-point document. The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and our citizens," Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, referring to the Israeli military.
09/08/2026 - 13:11
Netanyahu says Israel 'rejects' US Gaza plan endorsed by Hamas
09/08/2026 - 12:26
Iran-backed Houthis say targeted Saudi forces in Yemen
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday said they had targeted "Saudi enemy" troops and equipment on Yemen's Red Sea coast city of Mokha after residents there said they heard blasts.
The group's military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had "carried out a large-scale and precise military operation targeting Saudi enemy troop concentrations and weapons depots in the Mokha area," using "a large number of ballistic missiles and drones".
09/08/2026 - 12:01
IRGC says Hormuz won't reopen until US accepts Iran's conditions
Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has said they will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the US accepts all of Tehran's demands.
"Our current strategy is to maintain this strait until the enemy accepts all our conditions," said Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi, as quoted by state TV, adding that "the strait is now actually a theatre of war for us and not just a waterway".
09/08/2026 - 10:50
Iran says talks with US won't happen while interim MoU is breached
Iran and the US are not engaged in talks and Tehran will not start them as long as Washington breaches an interim deal signed in June, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said, referring to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the US and Iran.
Araghchi explained that messages between Iran and the US are being exchanged via intermediaries.
Araghchi repeated Tehran's position that an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman was in the "final stages" but would not reopen the strategic waterway. In comments reported by Mehr news agency, he said the agreement would set out the new shipping lanes to be used once the US fulfils other conditions and the strait is reopened to traffic.
09/08/2026 - 09:08
Many of Iran’s demands ‘already agreed to’ by US in June MoU
Iran on Saturday issued a list of demands for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which several US media organisations have characterised as “new” preconditions.
Reporting from Washington DC, FRANCE 24’s Fraser Jackson notes that many of the demands were “already agreed to by the US in the [Islamabad] Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed back in June” between Iran and the US. “The difficulty was that the language then was quite broad, and the implementation was the problem,” Fraser explains.
A final deal requires an implementation timeframe and that has several "sticking points", Fraser notes.
09/08/2026 - 08:49
Yemen's Houthis say struck refinery on Saudi's Red Sea coast
Yemen's Houthis say they have attacked an Aramco refinery in Jazan on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast.
The group's military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had "succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in Jazan with a drone, and the strike was precise", adding the attack had been launched in response to Saudi incursions into territory in northwest Yemen.
09/08/2026 - 07:04
Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi defence pact technically same as NATO's Article 5, Fidan says
The Mecca defence pact signed between Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is technically the same as
NATO's Article 5 mutual defence agreement, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Saturday, adding the accord was not targeting Iran.
Speaking to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Fidan said a committee of ministers similar to that within NATO would be formed as part of the alliance, as well as a general secretariat based in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed the agreement on Friday
09/08/2026 - 06:59
Fire extinguished at Aramco refinery in Jazan, Saudi Arabia says
Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out early Sunday at a facility at Aramco's Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Energy Ministry said, adding that there were no injuries.
Aramco's industrial security teams had brought the fire under control and the relevant authorities were completing procedures to deal with the incident, the ministry said on X. It did not say what caused the fire.
Jazan is on the Red Sea near the border with Yemen.
The Jazan refinery processes 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day and produces refined products including gasoline and ultra-light sulfur diesel.
Aramco shut down the refinery on July 27 following an attack by Yemen's Houthi militants that damaged the plant's Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) complex and tank farm area, according to a note from consultancy IIR seen by Reuters.
The Houthis said at the time they had struck Aramco sites in Jazan and Yanbu. The attacks raised the prospect that threats to Red Sea shipping and Saudi oil infrastructure could widen global disruption stemming from the US war against Iran and Iranian attacks on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz.
09/08/2026 - 06:55
Turkey says expects Egypt to join Mecca defence pact
Turkey's foreign minister has said he expected Egypt to join a joint defence agreement with regional partners designed to stabilise the region that is grappling with the Middle East war.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed the agreement on Friday against the backdrop of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which has drawn in surrounding nations and disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told state news agency Anadolu he expected Egypt to join the "Mecca Joint Defence Agreement", calling the country a "natural partner on all issues".
"I believe that at the next stage Egypt will also be among us in the alliance. We already act toward one another as if we were alliance members," he said in an interview.
"There are a few technical issues. Once these are implemented, there is no reason for Egypt not to be part of it."
09/08/2026 - 06:53
Iran's list of demands for reopening Hormuz includes compensation for war damages
Iran on Saturday set preconditions for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, including compensation for war damages.
Iranian security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr s
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