Israel has targeted Iran's Fordow nuclear site, after the US bombed the facility at the weekend, while also apparently striking the entrance of an Iranian prison. Iran has asked Russia for help, while vowing revenge against the US. Follow the latest and listen to The World podcast below.
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The US believes Iran could carry out retaliatory attacks targeting American forces in the Middle East soon, two US officials have told Reuters.
One of the officials said the attack could happen within the next day or two.
But the sources also told Reuters that Washington was looking for a diplomatic resolution.
Trump's intervention over the weekend has raised fears of an escalation in the region.
While Trump repeatedly said on the presidential campaign trail last year that the US should not be involved in what he called "forever wars", over the weekend the US struck three nuclear sites in Iran.
Trump then warned against retaliation by Iran, saying it would be "met with force far greater than what was witnessed" over the weekend.
The IDF has issued a warning to residents in Tehran, telling them to stay away from certain areas in the coming days.
In a message on X, the IDF said Israel's army would "continue to strike military targets in the Tehran area".
"For your safety, we ask you to stay away from weapons manufacturing plants, military headquarters, and security institutions affiliated with the regime," the IDF said in a statement.
David Lammy, the UK's foreign secretary, is updating MPs now on the Israel-Iran conflict.
It comes following weekend strikes by the US on Iranian nuclear sites.
You can watch and follow the speech via our Politics Hub - just click below.
Back to Mark Rutte, who has been taking questions from reporters ahead of the NATO summit.
Asked about the US strikes on Iran over the weekend, he has said America did not violate international law.
Trump said over the weekend that the strikes caused "monumental damage". However, the scale of the destruction is not yet clear.
As we've been reporting, Iran's foreign minister met Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin earlier today.
Abbas Araghchi brought Putin a letter from Iran's supreme leader, asking for more help from Russia after the attacks by Israel and the US.
The Kremlin described it as a good meeting. But prior to the visit, sources in Iran suggested they had hoped for more support from Russia.
Ivor Bennett, our Moscow correspondent, explains the background to the Russian-Iranian relationship, and what Putin is likely to do next.
Donald Trump has urged companies to keep "oil prices down" or risk "playing right into the hands of the enemy" as fears rise that ongoing fighting in the Middle East could cause them to spike.
The US president had this to say on Truth Social in the last hour...
On Sunday, Trump called into question the future of Iran's ruling government after a surprise attack on three of the country鈥檚 nuclear sites.
His bombardment of three sites in Iran quickly sparked debate in Congress over his authority to launch the strikes, with many Republicans praising Trump for decisive action even as many Democrats - and some from Trump's own party, too - warned he should have sought congressional approval.
UK government plans to proscribe Palestine Action, effectively branding it as a terrorist organisation, are "irrational", a member of the protest group has said.
The group targeted RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire last week, and vandalised two military planes.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is preparing a written ministerial statement which would make becoming a member of the group illegal.
Palestine Action member Saeed Farouk told Wilfred Frost on Sky News Breakfast earlier it was a "knee-jerk reaction from the government".
It is trying to "rush" the ban through based on the fact the group "was able to humiliate them and show serious flaws in the defences of the RAF base itself," Farouk argued.
He said the proposal was "absurd" and he could not speculate at this point what the plans were for the group if proscribed.
"It is a Britain-based, civil society-based action group. It will put the group on a list of people like ISIS, which is irrational. It makes no sense whatsoever," he added.
Asked if the group regretted the decision to target the RAF base, Farouk said: "Not at all.
"We're in the middle of one of the most widely documented genocides, not only in my lifetime, but in history.
"The British people have made it absolutely clear that they won't accept the government's role in the genocide, the government's role in supporting Israel, and the only way that the British people have found to stop it is to be directly involved in breaking the material chain.
"This is what was necessary."
After meeting with Vladimir Putin, Iran's foreign minister has said he had a good meeting with the Russian leader, Russia's state news agency RIA reports.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin and Abbas Araghchi discussed developments in the Middle East in detail, with a particular focus on steering the regional situation toward a peaceful resolution.
As we reported earlier, during their meeting today Putin condemned the "unprovoked aggression" towards Iran.
He also said the strikes on the country had "no basis and no justification."
He added that Russia - one of Iran's key allies - was making efforts to provide assistance to the Iranian people.
The German government is adapting its precautions in case of possible retaliatory strikes by Iran in close consultation with partners, a government official has said.
After the US attacked key Iranian nuclear sites this weekend, there have been fears over how Iran will respond.
Iran has vowed to defend itself after the US dropped 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs onto the mountain above Iran's Fordow nuclear site.
In a post to the Truth Social platform, Donald Trump also raised the idea of regime change in Iran.
Speaking on its adaptation of precautions today, a German official said: "We have done so since before the operations began. We will continue to do so.
"But we are making ongoing adjustments and are in very close and very constructive consultation with our partners".
NATO chief Mark Rutte is speaking ahead of the NATO summit.
Addressing the situation in Iran, he says that NATO allies have long agreed that Iran must not develop a nuclear weapon.
"Allies have repeatedly urged Iran to meet its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)," he says.
Rutte goes on to say the alliance's new defence investment plan will be 5% of GDP and this will help ensure security and defence.
"As leaders begin to gather for the summit here, this is our focus - ensuring we have all we need to deter and defend against any threat," he adds.
He notes the most "significant threat" facing the defence alliance is Russia.
Watch Rutte's speech below:
