347 statements, each attributed to who said it and to whom, and never counted as an event. Where one makes a claim that evidence can settle, it carries the verdict from the claims ledger.
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23 OctGovernment of the United States: At a rally in Florida, President Trump said the US military "may do another Epic Fury", referring to the opening US-Israeli bombing campaign; on 25 October he told Fox News: "Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal?"
22 OctGovernment of Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said overthrowing Iran's government remains Israel's "primary objective", after talks with President Trump and a visit by Pete Hegseth; he gave no sign Washington had agreed to a new offensive.
22 OctIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebi said Iran's defence doctrine had changed: "if a country attacks us, we will both respond and launch an offensive", warning renewed US attacks could prompt Iran to move against neighbouring countries.
20 OctGovernment of Iran: The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said no enriched nuclear material would leave the country, Tasnim reported.
17 OctIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC Navy said two oil tankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, caught fire after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz after switching off positioning systems and using a route Iran had not authorised, and that one was crossing "with US support".
16 OctUnited States Armed Forces: The CENTCOM commander, Admiral Cooper, said US operations had stopped Iran exporting at least $25 billion of crude, helped freeze nearly $350 million in cryptocurrency, and that Iran was withholding salaries including from the IRGC.
13 OctGovernment of the United States: President Trump wrote that the Houthis had re-emerged "probably at the behest of Iran", were hitting Saudi Arabia to drive up oil prices before the US elections, and repeated that the US could step up military action after the elections.
11 OctGovernment of Iran: Supreme National Security Council head Mohsen Rezaei told state media Washington accepted some of Iran's seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz but its response was "insufficient", and that the US had approached Iran through Pakistan, Qatar and Iraq.
10 OctIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC Navy said late on 10 October that an unnamed crude oil supertanker hit a naval mine and caught fire while using an unauthorised route through the Strait of Hormuz with its navigation systems off, and warned other tankers of a similar fate.
8 OctGovernment of the United States: President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the US "will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections" on 3 November, that talks with Iran were "productive" and that the blockade would stay in "full force".
7 OctGovernment of the United States: Vice President JD Vance told Reuters Iran must make a "meaningful" reduction in enrichment to show it does not seek a nuclear weapon, asking "why do you need 60 percent enriched fuel?"
5 OctGovernment of the United States: At a campaign rally in Nebraska, President Trump said war-driven price rises were "a small price to pay" and that Iran "can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego"; California officials condemned the remark. Earlier he told Kurdistan24 he was "always" open to direct talks with Iran.
4 OctGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until seven Iranian conditions based on the Islamabad memorandum are met, and that Iran would "both fight and negotiate".
30 SepGovernment of the United States: Trump said the time had come to decide between a deal with Iran and military action, that it is going to end very soon, and, asked how he could negotiate with leaders he called irrational, said maybe you blow them up.
29 SepGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on state TV that if Iran's security is not guaranteed, no infrastructure will remain safe.
29 SepGovernment of Yemen (internationally recognised, Presidential Leadership Council): The Yemeni Armed Forces of the recognised government said 2,316 Houthi fighters were killed or wounded in three days of fighting across eight fronts, and that its forces carried out 706 strikes. Asharq Al-Awsat did not verify the figures.
29 SepGovernment of Qatar: Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Thani told Piers Morgan that the White House informed him about 30 minutes before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran began on 28 February.
28 SepGovernment of Iran: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on his Telegram channel that Iranian forces had pushed enemy forces from the waters off southern Iran back to the Arabian Sea and that they would soon be expelled from the Arabian Sea too.
27 SepGovernment of Iran: Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority warned that charterers who push ships through Hormuz without its required procedures could be put on its non-compliance list, restricting linked vessels, and published a letter it attributed to a ship's owners apologising for an unauthorised transit.
27 SepGovernment of the United States: Trump told Axios he expected negotiations with Iran to restart within the week and that he is always thinking about resuming strikes, saying Iran wants a deal but not the deal he wants. US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz called Iran's offer a cynical attempt to table something it knew was unacceptable.
26 SepGovernment of Iran: President Masoud Pezeshkian told Al Jazeera that Qatar and Pakistan were still relaying messages but that Iran no longer had faith in Washington after the attacks and sanctions that followed all negotiations.
25 SepGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran had offered Washington, through Qatar, a plan under which the strait could reopen and normal passage resume within seven days if the necessary conditions were met, and that the choice rested with the US. A senior Iranian official told Reuters the plan would also end hostilities on all fronts including Lebanon in return for lifting the blockade, releasing frozen funds and waiving oil sanctions, and that Iran would make no nuclear concessions.
25 SepGovernment of Lebanon: Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam told the UN General Assembly that recovering territory from Israeli occupation is an existential challenge, called for no weapons outside the state, and urged action to avoid a vacuum when UNIFIL begins withdrawing at the end of the year.
24 SepGovernment of Iran: Yahya Rahim Safavi, an adviser to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said in a video released by Fars that if Israel or the US strikes again the front will expand further, reaching the Indian Ocean and perhaps beyond.
24 SepGovernment of Israel: At the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision to strike Iran's nuclear facilities was one of the easiest he had made and that he had stopped Iran from threatening the world; many Arab diplomats walked out as he took the stage.
23 SepGovernment of Iran: At the UN General Assembly, President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran will not pursue nuclear weapons but will not give up civilian enrichment, that Iran only defended itself and did not hit civilian populations, and that Iran is open to talks without bullying.
23 SepGovernment of Iran: Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, said on state TV that Iran could paralyse airports in neighbouring countries if they stopped Iranian flights.
23 SepGovernment of Iran: Deputy Oil Minister Ahmad Zeraatkar told Fars that about half of the damaged production capacity at the South Pars gas field had been restored, up from about 40% in late August, and that repairs would be finished before winter.
22 SepGovernment of Iran: A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if Washington reduced military pressure and lifted its blockade of Iranian ports.
22 SepGovernment of the United States: Addressing the UN General Assembly, Trump said he had a big decision to make on Iran, that he believed a deal would be made right after the US midterm election, that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and urged states to enforce Iran's complete economic isolation. Most of Iran's delegation walked out as he began the Iran section.
21 SepIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC air defence forces said they tracked and destroyed a US MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz with a new air defence system. No US confirmation was published.
21 SepIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said that if the US escalates, Iran would change the geography of the war and bring new weapons with new capabilities into the battle.
20 SepIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran's central military command said in a statement carried by state media that it had information the US, backed by some regional countries, was preparing to resume actions against Iran.
20 SepGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, according to Fars, that Iran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its conditions are met and US commitments are implemented.
19 SepGovernment of Iran: Mohsen Rezaei, described as Iran's security chief, told Al Jazeera that Iran had given mediators Qatar and Pakistan three conditions for talks with the US: an end to the war on all fronts, the unfreezing of Iranian funds and an end to the naval blockade, and was awaiting Trump's reply.
17 SepGovernment of the United States: Trump told Axios and Channel 12 by phone that he faced a big decision on whether to go in and annihilate the Iranian government or not, adding that anything could happen.
16 SepGovernment of the United States: Fox News, citing two sources, reported that four Iranian drones and at least one missile targeted a US-contracted vessel carrying American personnel near the strait earlier in the week, causing minor injuries. CENTCOM did not identify the vessel and gCaptain could not confirm the report.
16 SepGovernment of the United States: US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News that oil flows out of the Gulf were at record highs, with about 18 million barrels leaving the day before.
15 SepGovernment of the United States: Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC at a G20 energy meeting in Houston that crude should resume flowing through Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline within days, while sources told Reuters repairs could take up to five to six weeks.
15 SepGovernment of Qatar: Qatari foreign ministry official Ibrahim Al Hashmi said closure of Bab el-Mandeb on top of the Hormuz blockade would be catastrophic for the entire world and that Qatar was pushing for diplomacy.
15 SepUnited States Armed Forces: CENTCOM confirmed to Axios that it hosted senior military leaders from eight nations at a scheduled conference to discuss Middle East security cooperation; Israeli officials told Axios the chiefs of Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt met in Germany the previous week and that Adm. Brad Cooper said US forces would not leave the region.
15 SepGovernment of Iran: Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei wrote on X, after Trump said he was open to talks, that there would be 'no talks until Iran's conditions are met'; Iran has named war reparations and the lifting of sanctions as conditions.
14 SepGovernment of Iran: Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said Saudi Arabia had asked to postpone the Iran-Gulf meeting on Hormuz planned in Salalah, Oman; Riyadh did not comment.
14 SepGovernment of China: Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun rejected Wall Street Journal reports that Chinese entities gave Iran satellite imagery of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base before and after the 17 July strike that killed three US soldiers, saying China opposed groundless accusations.
14 SepGovernment of the United States: President Trump wrote on Truth Social that 'the failing nation of Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly' and that the US was open to engaging, with him deciding whether it would.
13 SepGovernment of Syria: Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, with Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Damascus, said Israel's August strike on the disused Abu Duhur airbase had no legal justification and called on Israel to withdraw from areas it entered after Assad's fall; Fidan called Israel's policies the most serious obstacle to Syria's recovery.
12 SepGovernment of the United States: President Trump told reporters in Dublin that Iran was probably responsible for the attack that shut Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, said the Houthis had told his administration they did not want the US involved in Yemen and were letting most ships through, and repeated that the war would end after the midterms.
11 SepGovernment of the United States: At a Pentagon ceremony marking 25 years since the 11 September 2001 attacks, President Trump tied the Iran war to that vow, saying 'That's why we fight today' and 'There can only be victory', and thanked troops working to ensure Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.
11 SepGovernment of the United States: Acting US Navy Secretary Hung Cao told the Epoch Times that Iran 'blew the hell out of Bahrain', referring to strikes on Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the Fifth Fleet headquarters, Reuters reported.
10 SepInternational Atomic Energy Agency (Board of Governors and Director General): IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told Bloomberg there were indications of movement around construction at Pickaxe Mountain near Natanz, which inspectors have not entered, but that the agency lacked concrete information on activities there.
9 SepGovernment of the United States: President Trump said the Iran war would end immediately after the 3 November midterm elections because Iran could not hold out any longer, and that Tehran was trying to influence the vote. He also warned Iran 'not to get cute' or the US might strike the Pickaxe Mountain site.
7 SepGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei warned South Korea that any military deployment or participation in US operations in the Gulf or Strait of Hormuz would be treated as direct support for the aggressor and have serious consequences.
7 SepInternational Atomic Energy Agency (Board of Governors and Director General): IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, opening the quarterly Board of Governors meeting, said giving the agency access to key nuclear sites would have positive repercussions for Iran and called the lack of contact regrettable, as a US, British, French and German draft to refer Iran to the UN Security Council circulated.
6 SepGovernment of Iran: Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei told state TV that Iran would announce within days a prohibited zone starting at the US Navy's blockade line and extending into the Gulf, and that any ship entering it would be placed on Iran's sanctions list.
6 SepGovernment of Iran: Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said on Telegram that the rules of the game had changed and that any attack on Iran's interests would meet a faster, heavier and more painful response.
5 SepKhatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (Iran joint armed forces command): Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya central command said that if harassment of Iranian ships and the naval blockade continued, Iranian strikes on US military vessels would be more severe than before and could expand.
4 SepGovernment of South Korea: A South Korean presidential official told Reuters that Seoul was reviewing practical options, including military measures, to support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
3 SepGovernment of the United States: Vice President JD Vance said at a White House briefing that the US was not talking to Iran and would not until it stopped shooting at commercial shipping, said 15 million barrels had exited the strait the previous night, and said CENTCOM was investigating the reported wedding strike.
3 SepGovernment of Israel: Defence Minister Israel Katz said that if Iran attacks Israel, Israel would be free of all constraints and would strike all regime infrastructure including energy facilities, returning Iran 'to the Stone Age'.
3 SepIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi said in a statement on state TV that the deaths of four people at the Sirik wedding, which Iran blames on the US, would not go unanswered and would definitely be avenged.
2 SepGovernment of Iran: Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei said on X that the US would face a new Iranian strategy on the battlefield, in diplomacy and against the economic blockade.
2 SepGovernment of the United States: Energy Secretary Chris Wright said 17 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, 31 August, the most since the war cut flows.
2 SepGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on X that the US bombing of a wedding in Sirik was a war crime, part of what he called America's effort to conceal its failure.
1 SepGovernment of the United States: President Trump told Fox News that the US strikes targeted Iran's rebuilt radar, warned Iran would be hit harder if it responded, and said an agreement with Iran was not worth the paper it was written on, appearing to rule out a near-term return to the June ceasefire.
1 SepGovernment of Iran: President Masoud Pezeshkian, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, said Iran was ready to return to the June ceasefire memorandum brokered with the US, and would reciprocate immediately, if Washington abided by its terms.
1 SepIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC said its strike on a US base in Jordan killed a large number of US forces. There was no confirmation from Jordan or the US at the time. The Pentagon count stood at 21 US deaths for the whole war as of 9 October.
31 AugGovernment of Iran: Meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek, President Pezeshkian said continued war is in no one's interest and that Tehran remains open to a negotiated settlement with the US, according to Tasnim.
31 AugGovernment of the United States: President Trump told Fox News the US is going to hit Iran hard and there will be a response to the missile attack on US forces in Jordan, adding that almost all the missiles were intercepted.
30 AugGovernment of Iran: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in a written Telegram message for the Prophet's birthday, urged Gulf rulers to identify and confront their real enemy and called for Muslim unity and mutual defence.
29 AugGovernment of Iran: President Pezeshkian told state TV that US sanctions are hurting Iran's economy, that Iran's exports and imports have fallen 25 to 35 percent in recent months under the naval blockade, and that petrol prices should rise to offset the drop in trade.
27 AugGovernment of Iran: Deputy Oil Minister Ahmed Zeraatkar said about 40% of the South Pars gas field capacity damaged in the war is back in production, according to Fars, and Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said oil sales and deliveries in distant waters continue despite a reduction.
26 AugIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Armed forces spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi said on state television that BBC Persian, Iran International and Radio Farda are in Iran's military target bank, accusing them of working with the Mossad and CIA. He did not say where they would be targeted.
26 AugIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: An IRGC spokesman said Iran and Oman have reached agreements on their shares of the Strait of Hormuz and its revenues, and accused the US of obstructing and delaying their talks, according to Tasnim. No terms were given.
26 AugGovernment of the United States: President Trump told radio host Glenn Beck he does not think Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is dead but that he is very seriously wounded, with injuries to the left side of his body. Khamenei has not been seen in public since the war began.
26 AugGovernment of Israel: Prime Minister Netanyahu said he presented President Trump with three options on Iran, including tightening the siege, doubted a deal was possible with Iran's leaders, and said Israel will not allow Iran to attack it, describing the expanded US sanctions as very powerful.
25 AugUnited Nations: The International Maritime Organization said it had confirmed 68 incidents in the Gulf and nearby waters in six months of war, one every 2.6 days, with at least 20 seafarers or port workers killed, 35 wounded and one missing. About half involved tankers; UKMTO classifies 47 as attacks.
25 AugGovernment of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio told foreign counterparts the US does not currently expect new offensive strikes on Iran and is shifting to economic pressure and normalising shipping through Hormuz, while not ruling out force if Iran resumes hostilities, according to Axios and Israel's Channel 12. US officials said the Navy had cleared mines from the main traffic separation scheme.
25 AugGovernment of China: Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said China will take all necessary measures to firmly safeguard its rights and interests, after the US said its Iran sanctions campaign would not exempt China.
23 AugGovernment of Israel: Israeli security officials told Channel 12 that Hezbollah has stepped up attempts to smuggle weapons from Syria into Lebanon during the ceasefire, financed and run by the IRGC Quds Force, and that many shipments go undetected.
23 AugGovernment of Iran: President Pezeshkian said the expired memorandum with the US was the best way out of a situation of neither war nor peace, that the Supreme National Security Council saw it as the best possible deal and that no provision amounted to capitulation, adding that Iran cannot attract investment while the risk persists.
22 AugGovernment of Iran: Mohsen Rezaei, described by AFP as head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said on state television that any country taking part in the US economic restrictions on Iran will be considered an enemy.
21 AugIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran said its response to new US threats would be devastating; armed forces chief of staff Ali Abdollahi said the reaction would be broad and decisive. Parliament speaker Ghalibaf said the US appeared to have concluded it could not win militarily, but acknowledged the country would not survive if people go hungry.
21 AugGovernment of the United States: President Trump told reporters Iran was not ready to make the right deal and that the US has total control of the entire region around the Strait of Hormuz, including land areas well into it.
21 AugGovernment of Iran: President Masoud Pezeshkian told a meeting of doctors that it is better to end the war now because Iran is in a position of power and dignity, saying the whole world acknowledges Iran's victory and accusing the US of attacking schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
20 AugGovernment of the United States: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC the US will impose the toughest sanctions in history on Iran, describing the naval blockade and sanctions as a one-two punch that would likely make a large-scale military restart unnecessary. Iran's foreign ministry called the measures economic terrorism and Foreign Minister Araghchi said they were a diversion from US economic problems.
19 AugGovernment of the United States: A day after saying no talks with Iran were going on or scheduled, President Trump told reporters he might renew negotiations at some point but that the situation was so good right now.
19 AugGovernment of the United States: President Trump declared an economic D-Day on Truth Social, saying oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries and front companies serving Iran must stop and that any country giving Iran a lifeline will face tremendous economic consequences. He gave no detail of the measures.
19 AugIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Armed forces chief of staff Ali Abdollahi warned Gulf states that any help or facilitation given to the US military amounts to taking part in US operations, saying Iran is fully aware of the tanker and refuelling aircraft at regional bases.
18 AugGovernment of Iran: Iran's chief negotiator and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the Strait of Hormuz will stay closed until the US meets the terms of the expired memorandum: lifting the naval blockade, lifting sanctions and releasing frozen Iranian assets.
17 AugGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei blamed oil pollution in the Gulf and the Sea of Oman on the US military presence, put the damage at trillions of dollars and called for the US to be held accountable, after an oil slick reached Qeshm island's beaches and mangroves.
17 AugUnited Nations: UN human rights chief Volker Turk warned of a rising civilian toll from escalating hostilities in Yemen and called on all parties to halt any action that risks returning the country to full-scale war.
17 AugGovernment of the United States: In a Fox News phone interview, President Trump warned that the US would bomb Oman if it got in the way, responding to Iran-Oman talks on managing the Strait of Hormuz. He also confirmed a US back-channel with IRGC officials and said the blockade was adding pressure on Tehran.
16 AugIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran's army chief Amir Hatami announced a reward of 5 billion tomans, about $30,000, for anyone who kills or captures and hands over a US service member, doubled if a woman does it, according to IRNA. He gave no detail of where or when.
13 AugGovernment of the United States: Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters in Panama that the US Navy could maintain the blockade of Iran indefinitely, partly by rotating ships in and out of the region.
13 AugKhatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (Iran joint armed forces command): Iran's top joint military command said, according to state media, that no vessel could transit the Strait of Hormuz without Iran's permission.
12 AugGovernment of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States had total control over the Strait of Hormuz, that the naval blockade was being called a wall of steel, and that Iran could do nothing about it.
8 AugIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi, quoted by Tasnim, said reopening the Strait of Hormuz was subject to Iran's own mechanisms and conditions and was unrelated to the Iran-Oman negotiations. A US official said the same day that Iran-Oman progress could soon reopen the strait.
8 AugGovernment of Iran: Iran's Supreme National Security Council, in a statement by secretary Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr carried by state television, said the Strait of Hormuz would not open until the US corrected its behaviour, and listed conditions: no further US threats, a permanent end to the war on Iran and its allies including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, lifting of the naval blockade and US withdrawal from the region, full compensation for the 2025 and 2026 wars, lifting of all sanctions and release of frozen assets.
3 AugGovernment of the United States: Trump called the Iranian leadership unbelievably duplicitous after Tehran denied talks, then said at the White House that talks were going on, that the Strait of Hormuz would open to traffic on Tuesday as phase one with the nuclear programme as phase two, and that this was Iran's last chance. He said the strikes he called off would have been the biggest attack since the Second World War and could still be carried out.
3 AugGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran was not holding talks with the United States and had no plans to host or send delegations, and that it was discussing with Oman a temporary safe route through the strait with one path of entry and exit lanes. He said a deal with Oman would not fully reopen the strait while what he called US aggression continued.
2 AugIsrael Defense Forces: The IDF said its 401st Brigade had finished an eight-month mission in southern Lebanon in which it destroyed 1,200 Hezbollah structures, killed more than 60 Hezbollah operatives, found over 600 weapons and destroyed hundreds of metres of tunnels.
2 AugIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iranian military sources quoted by Mehr called Trump's claim that Tehran had asked Washington to halt strikes a new lie aimed at pressuring Gulf states, said Iranian forces were at the highest readiness, and warned that if confrontation became inevitable the battlefield would decide.
2 AugGovernment of Iran: Fars reported that Iran plans to keep control of the Strait of Hormuz as long as US hostilities continue.
1 AugGovernment of Iran: A senior Iranian security official, quoted by Tasnim, said Iran would respond to any strike on its energy facilities by hitting critical infrastructure in Israel and US energy facilities in the region, and that Iran had prepared a comprehensive response plan.
1 AugAnsar Allah (the Houthis): The Houthi-run maritime coordination body denied reports that it planned to charge fees on ships transiting Bab el-Mandeb, saying no such decision had been made and passage remained free.
31 JulGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied Iranian involvement in the Damietta drone strike, called Egypt an 'important friend and partner' and warned of Israeli 'false-flag operations'.
29 JulGovernment of the United States: Trump said at the White House that Iran would be 'hit very hard' after the IRGC ballistic missile attack on US forces in Jordan.
27 JulGovernment of the United States: Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Iran requested a meeting 'through their surrogates and directly, and we're meeting', said 'we are having good talks', and said Patriot interceptors are being built.
26 JulGovernment of Iran: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on X that 'the absolute, unconditional termination of the Zionist regime's aggression' against Lebanon is Iran's primary condition for ending the war with the US, and called defending Hezbollah's fighters a 'strategic mandate'.
26 JulGovernment of Iran: Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said intermediaries relay US messages but there are no direct or indirect negotiations, dismissed reports Iran asked for talks in Pakistan or Qatar, and said the strait remains closed.
26 JulGovernment of the United States: US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told Fox News that Trump paused the attacks to give talks time: 'He's giving talks some space, he's giving it a little bit of room.'
25 JulIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC said, in a statement carried by Fars, that its attacks destroyed 17 drones, an F-15 in a hangar, a P-8, a C-17 and eight refuelling aircraft at bases across the region, without naming locations.
25 JulGovernment of Iran: Araghchi said the June memorandum gives Tehran the right to set transit routes and mechanisms in the strait, and accused Washington of trying to force open a new route without consulting Iran.
24 JulGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X that using frozen assets for unrelated future claims would set an 'incendiary precedent'.
23 JulGovernment of the United States: Trump said on Truth Social that until further notice damage to ships, cargo or related property would be paid for with Iranian money the US holds, and told Axios he was 'considering a massive attack' that would be 'bigger than ever before'.
22 JulGovernment of the United States: Trump said in a social media post that each time Iranian forces fire on a vessel in the strait, 'the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT', including in or next to Tehran.
22 JulGovernment of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in Manila, said Washington is open to negotiations with Iran: 'If they're serious, we're serious.'
22 JulGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the strait 'will not return to pre-war conditions' and that if Iran's security is not ensured, 'no infrastructure will be safe'. IRGC Aerospace Force head Majid Mousavi said power outages in countries hosting US troops would follow any strike on Iran's power stations.
20 JulGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told IRNA that Tehran would end the war with the US when it has 'the upper hand in the field', and that the right time to negotiate is after reaching a strong military position.
20 JulGovernment of the United States: Trump said US military leaders were directed to make Iran pay 'many times over', and that 'every time Iran kills an American soldier, they will pay for that killing many times over'.
19 JulKhatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (Iran joint armed forces command): Maj-Gen Ali Abdullahi, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said 'any aggression or barbarism will be met with a decisive and devastating response'.
18 JulGovernment of Iran: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in a written statement read on state TV, warned of 'unforgettable lessons' if US attacks continue and said Trump's signature on the memorandum was 'utterly worthless and invalid'.
17 JulKhatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (Iran joint armed forces command): Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari said the Strait of Hormuz 'will never return to what it was before the 40-day war' and accused the US of destabilising it.
16 JulGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused Washington of war crimes in a Telegram post, saying attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the UN Charter.
16 JulIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC threatened to halt Middle East energy exports over the US naval blockade, saying oil and gas exports from the region 'will be either for everyone or for no one'.
14 JulUnited States Armed Forces: CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper said Iran had intentionally targeted civilians and attacked seven commercial ships in seven days, with about a dozen crew killed, missing or injured.
14 JulGovernment of the United States: Trump told Fox News that 'next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges' unless Iran negotiated, and told Hugh Hewitt the US would 'take out Pickaxe Mountain', a fortified site linked to Iran's nuclear programme.
13 JulIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebi said the US had 'seriously endangered the security of the world's oil and gas supply' and that Iran would continue to exercise sovereignty over and management of the strait.
12 JulGovernment of Iran: Ghalibaf posted 'The era of one-sided deals is OVER. We told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking', with an image of Article 5 of the memorandum.
12 JulGovernment of the United States: Trump told NBC the strait was open, that the US 'bombed the hell out of them', and that Iran had agreed to 'a perfect deal' giving up 'everything' before attacking a ship within an hour.
12 JulGovernment of Iran: Mohsen Rezaee, an adviser to Mojtaba Khamenei, said the strait 'is more important than dozens of atomic bombs' and Iran would protect it.
9 JulGovernment of Israel: Defence minister Israel Katz said the army was ready to resume fighting in Iran 'including a third time if necessary' and 'with even greater force'; Netanyahu said 'the campaign is not over'.
8 JulGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said clause five of the memorandum gives Iran sole responsibility for arranging safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
8 JulGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the Strait of Hormuz 'will only open with Iranian arrangements, not American threats' and warned: 'if you strike, you'll get hit'.
2 JulGovernment of Iran: Ghalibaf denied that IAEA inspectors had access to Fordow, Natanz or Isfahan, saying they could visit only the Bushehr plant and the Tehran reactor under a law passed by parliament.
1 JulGovernment of the United States: Vice President JD Vance said he could not guarantee that the US would not return to combat before the memorandum's deadline, and told Fox News that Iran's nuclear programme and military had been 'destroyed'.
30 JunGovernment of Iran: Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said demining of the Strait of Hormuz could be carried out 'solely by Iran and by no other country'.
30 JunGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Iran would not enter further negotiations until the memorandum's conditions were met, that Iran, the US and Lebanon would form a committee to oversee the end of the war in Lebanon, and that sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz lies with Oman and Iran.
29 JunGovernment of the United States: Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Witkoff and Kushner would fly to Doha for high-level meetings with technical talks on the sidelines, that the US was 'holding up our end of the ceasefire', and that 'violence will be met with violence'.
29 JunGovernment of Iran: Baghaei said 'We will not have any negotiation meetings at any level with the American side in the coming days' and that Iran's technical delegation to Doha had 'no relation' to any meeting with US officials.
28 JunGovernment of Israel: Netanyahu called the US-mediated framework with Lebanon a historic accomplishment and a major blow to Iran and Hezbollah, under which Israel keeps a security zone in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed.
27 JunGovernment of the United States: Trump called the Ever Lovely attack a 'foolish violation' of the memorandum, wrote 'It is very possible that they will never learn', and warned the US could 'militarily complete the job' and that Iran 'will no longer exist' if it came to that.
26 JunIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC navy said it targeted US deployment sites in the region after a US 'violation of commitments' and that Article 5 of the Islamabad memorandum puts control of transit through the strait under Iran's responsibility.
25 JunUnited Nations: IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said 'the safety of the seafarers remains paramount' and that 'the evacuation plan will be paused until further clarity is obtained'.
25 JunGovernment of the United States: Secretary of State Rubio, in Bahrain, said 'we are very close in our hopes of getting a commitment of intent' between Israel and Lebanon and that their governments were talking directly for the first time in 30 years.
24 JunGovernment of the United States: Energy Secretary Chris Wright said crude flows through Hormuz were 'similar to what they were before the start of the Iran war', that Iranian mines delayed normal navigation, and that the US would ensure flows even without a deal.
23 JunGovernment of the United States: A White House official said the Senate's war powers vote had 'no significance', blamed 'Republican absences', and said hostilities with Iran ended with the April ceasefire.
22 JunGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi said Iran secured oil and petrochemical export waivers, the lifting of blockades, some frozen-asset releases and a reconstruction plan at Burgenstock.
22 JunGovernment of the United States: Vance said Iran had agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back, that nuclear talks should begin 'at the minimum this week', and that any released Iranian assets would be used to buy American products.
20 JunGovernment of the United States: Trump posted that there would be no tolls in the Strait of Hormuz for the 60-day ceasefire period, and none afterward unless the United States imposed them if a deal were not completed.
20 JunKhatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (Iran joint armed forces command): The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said the strait was closed as a 'first response' to the 'enemy's breach of promise' over the memorandum's first clause and Israeli attacks in Lebanon, and that 'subsequent steps will be planned and taken' if they continued.
20 JunUnited States Armed Forces: CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said 'Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz' and that 'traffic continues to flow, and U.S. forces are monitoring the situation to ensure this remains the case'.
20 JunGovernment of the United States: Vance told Fox News he was skeptical of reports that Iran had closed the strait, saying 16 million barrels had moved through it in the previous 24 hours, roughly pre-war levels, and 'we're not seeing any evidence that the Iranians are still closing down the Strait of Hormuz'.
18 JunGovernment of the United States: Vice President Vance told reporters in Washington that 12.5 million barrels of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz overnight, the most since the conflict began, that Iran had not fired on ships for a second night, and that Iran's enrichment facilities 'remain destroyed'.
17 JunGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the Islamabad memorandum text 'was finalised with the signatures of the presidents' and that 'now it is time to test the implementation of the agreement'.
16 JunGovernment of the United States: Trump, at the G7 in Evian, said Iran 'will never have a nuclear weapon', that 'all hell will rain down' if it tries to build one, and that Iran 'has rational leadership now'.
15 JunGovernment of the United States: Vice President Vance told ABC's Good Morning America 'we already signed the deal digitally yesterday', with an in-person ceremony expected in Switzerland later in the week.
14 JunGovernment of Israel: Defence Minister Katz said Israeli forces would remain in security zones in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza for an unlimited period. Israel did not officially comment on the US-Iran agreement.
13 JunGovernment of Pakistan: Prime Minister Sharif wrote that a US-Iran deal was expected within 24 hours and would be signed electronically, saying 'we are closer to a peace deal than ever before'. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Baghaei said the memorandum would not be signed on 14 June but could be in the following days, and Treasury Secretary Bessent said a deal could come within days.
12 JunGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi said Iran's pressure over Hormuz would continue indefinitely and that Iran collects 'service fees', which are part of the negotiations, while tolls are not permitted under international law, according to Tasnim.
12 JunGovernment of Iran: Mohsen Rezaei said Trump had accepted the release of $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets but would not make it public. The UAE foreign ministry the same evening denied reports that frozen Iranian funds had been released or transferred through the UAE.
10 JunGovernment of the United States: Defence Secretary Hegseth, speaking at CENTCOM headquarters, accused Iran of 'choosing to play games' and said the US would 'negotiate with bombs' if needed. President Trump said Iran had taken too long to negotiate and would 'pay the price'.
7 JunGovernment of the United States: In an NBC Meet the Press interview recorded on 5 June and aired on 7 June, President Trump said frozen Iranian assets would be released only after a deal, that the sides were 'very close to a deal' or he would 'blow the hell out of them', that he was not demanding Lebanon be part of a deal, and that he wanted 'a more surgical attack on Hezbollah'.
7 JunGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker and chief negotiator Ghalibaf accused the US of giving Israel a 'green light' for the Beirut strike and said Tehran would halt negotiations and move into 'direct confrontation' over ceasefire violations.
6 JunGovernment of Iran: Mohsen Rezaei, military adviser to the supreme leader, told CNN the negotiations were at a deadlock that Trump must break, and called the release of frozen funds, which Iranian state media put at $12 billion to $24 billion with half on signing, a test of trust.
5 JunGovernment of Lebanon: In a CNN interview aired on 5 June, President Aoun said Iran must stop interfering in Lebanon and was using it as a bargaining chip with the United States. Foreign Minister Araghchi replied on X, telling Aoun to 'save Lebanon from your real foe'.
4 JunGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi warned that any attack on Beirut would trigger a full-scale resumption of the war and said there had been no tangible progress in the negotiations with the US.
4 JunGovernment of the United States: Speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump said Iran's enriched uranium was 'entombed' and watched by cameras at three sites, that the US could take it without a deal but had no reason to, and that he had rejected a roughly two-week ground operation to retrieve it early in the war. He said he did not want to meet Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei but would be respectful if a deal led to a meeting.
31 MayGovernment of Lebanon: Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel of a "scorched-earth policy" and "collective punishment" of southern residents as its forces pushed toward Nabatieh.
31 MayGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi told IRNA that "dialogue and an exchange of messages are ongoing" with the US, and chief negotiator Ghalibaf said Iran would not accept a deal that fails to secure its full rights and wants tangible results before fulfilling commitments. The New York Times reported Trump had sent back a toughened framework.
30 MayGovernment of the United States: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that the US is "more than capable" of restarting the war if no satisfactory deal is reached.
30 MayGovernment of the United States: Trump told Fox News he was in "no hurry" for a deal, that talks were progressing "slowly but surely", and that the "one guarantee" he needed was no nuclear weapons.
30 MayGovernment of Iran: Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to the Supreme Leader, said Trump was "betraying diplomacy for the third time" by keeping the naval blockade; Fars, citing sources, said Iran wanted $12bn in frozen assets released before the next phase.
29 MayGovernment of Iran: Chief negotiator Ghalibaf said Tehran would judge any agreement "by actions rather than words" and would take no steps unless Washington acted first.
29 MayUnited Nations: IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Kazakhstan had signalled willingness to store Iran's near-weapons-grade enriched uranium, describing its uranium bank as a possible site acceptable to both sides, according to the Financial Times.
28 MayGovernment of Iran: Pezeshkian said Iran is "not looking for nuclear weapons" and "we do not engage in diplomacy with humiliation".
26 MayGovernment of Iran: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a hajj message that "the clock cannot be turned back"; in an Eid al-Adha message he warned Gulf states against hosting US bases that could be used to attack Iran and said the US was losing influence in the region.
26 MayGovernment of the United States: Rubio said the Strait of Hormuz had to be open "one way or the other" and that talks on the draft's specific language could take "a few days".
25 MayGovernment of Iran: Baghaei said a "large portion" of issues had been concluded but no one could claim an agreement was about to be signed, and that Iran's nuclear programme was not being discussed "at this stage".
24 MayGovernment of Iran: President Pezeshkian said no deal would be made without the permission of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
24 MayGovernment of Israel: Prime Minister Netanyahu said any final agreement must eliminate the nuclear danger by "dismantling Iran's nuclear enrichment sites and removing its enriched nuclear material from its territory".
24 MayGovernment of the United States: Rubio said in India that "significant progress" had been made on the Strait of Hormuz, that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon, and that the US would get "a good agreement" or "deal with it another way".
23 MayGovernment of Iran: Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said differences with the US remained "deep and significant", that tolls in Hormuz were a "security service", and that more than 30 vessels had passed in coordination with the IRGC navy over the past day.
22 MayGovernment of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Helsingborg, Sweden, that there had been "slight progress" and "a little bit of movement" in talks with Iran, and that Washington had "other options" if talks failed.
21 MayGovernment of Iran: Parliament Speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in an audio message that the US was seeking to start a new war and had not dropped its military goals.
21 MayGovernment of the United Arab Emirates: The UAE foreign ministry said the drones that struck near the Barakah nuclear plant were launched by armed groups in Iraq and urged Iraq to stop attacks from its territory immediately and without conditions.
21 MayGovernment of the United States: Trump said the two sides were "right on the borderline" between a deal and renewed war and that he would give diplomacy "a few days"; White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller warned of military consequences "unmatched in modern history" if Iran rejected a deal.
20 MayIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said, via ISNA, that Iran would "open new fronts" and use new equipment and methods if the US attacked again; Foreign Minister Araghchi said a return to war "will feature many more surprises".
19 MayIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC said fibre-optic cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz could be subject to a permit system, citing Iran's sovereignty over its territorial sea.
19 MayGovernment of the United States: Trump told lawmakers the war would end "very quickly", gave Iran "two to three days" to make a deal and said he had been an hour away from ordering an attack before postponing it. Vice President Vance said talks were "in a pretty good spot". The old tracker filed this under 20 May.
18 MayGovernment of Iran: President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote that "dialogue does not mean surrender" and that Iran would not give up its legal rights.
17 MayGovernment of the United States: President Trump wrote on Truth Social that Iran "better get moving, FAST" or "there won't be anything left of them", and that the clock was ticking for a deal. The old tracker placed this on 18 May.
16 MayGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran had received US messages indicating openness to new negotiations to end the war, but that a deadlock remained over enriched nuclear material. He said Iran welcomed help from any country, "particularly China".
16 MayGovernment of Iran: First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said Iran would no longer allow "enemy" military equipment through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran said it would soon publish a traffic management plan including fees, which legislator Ebrahim Azizi said would be charged for "specialised services".
15 MayGovernment of Iran: At the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi, Araghchi urged members to condemn the US-Israeli war as a breach of international law, said Iran would never bow to pressure, and said the UAE was directly involved in the aggression against Iran. BRICS ended without a joint statement.
15 MayGovernment of the United States: Trump said he would accept a 20-year suspension of Iran's nuclear programme if the commitment was real, and that he would decide within days whether to lift sanctions on Chinese companies that buy Iranian oil.
15 MayGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi said Tehran had no trust in the US and would negotiate only if Washington was serious; he said all vessels could pass Hormuz except those of states at war with Iran, which must coordinate with Iran's navy, and that Pakistan's mediation was in difficulty but had not failed.
15 MayGovernment of the United States: Trump said Xi offered China's help to reopen Hormuz and pledged not to send military equipment to Iran; the White House said Xi agreed the strait must remain open to support the free flow of energy.
15 MayGovernment of the United Arab Emirates: The UAE rejected what it called Iranian claims of an active Emirati role in the war, describing them as attempts to justify Iranian attacks.
14 MayGovernment of the United States: Vice President JD Vance said progress was being made in talks with Iran and that the question was whether it would meet Trump's red line that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
13 MayGovernment of Iran: Parliament Speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Washington must accept Tehran's latest peace plan or the talks would fail.
12 MayGovernment of Qatar: Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said Iran should not use the strait to blackmail Gulf states, that Qatar did not support a resumption of war, and that it backed Pakistan's mediation.
10 MayGovernment of Iran: President Pezeshkian said negotiating with the US did not mean Iran was surrendering.
10 MayGovernment of Pakistan: Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir said Islamabad would keep mediating between the US and Iran.
7 MayGovernment of France: President Emmanuel Macron told President Pezeshkian that strikes on Emirati civilian infrastructure and on ships near Hormuz were unjustified.
7 MayGovernment of the United States: Trump said a deal could be within reach after very good talks, but threatened to resume bombing at a much higher level and intensity if Iran did not agree, and said the US would knock Iran out harder if it did not sign quickly.
7 MayGovernment of the United States: NBC News reported, citing officials, that Trump dropped the Hormuz escort plan after Saudi Arabia suspended US military use of its bases and airspace for the operation; Drop Site News reported Kuwait also cut access. Neither government confirmed this in the source seen.
5 MayGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the escalation around Hormuz showed there was no military solution to a political crisis; First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref called managing the strait Iran's legitimate right.
5 MayGovernment of the United States: President Trump warned that Iran would be blown off the face of the earth if it targeted US Navy ships in the strait and said Iran had better hope the ceasefire held.
4 MayIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya central command, under Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi, said foreign forces, especially the US military, would be targeted if they approached or entered the Strait of Hormuz, and that safe passage must be coordinated with Iran's armed forces.
1 MayGovernment of the United States: In a letter to congressional leaders, President Trump said the hostilities that began on 28 February had terminated, while the threat from Iran remained significant.
30 AprGovernment of Iran: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement read on state television that Iran would protect its nuclear and missile capabilities as national assets, that the future of the Persian Gulf would be without America, and that Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz under its control.
30 AprGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said no oil wells had 'exploded' under the blockade and that Iran's storage had not reached capacity, accusing US Treasury Secretary Bessent of acting on 'junk advice'; President Pezeshkian said the blockade was 'doomed to fail'.
30 AprGovernment of the United States: A senior US administration official said hostilities with Iran had 'terminated' for War Powers purposes because there had been no exchange of fire since the 7 April ceasefire.
29 AprUnited States Armed Forces: At his first public hearing on the war, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon put the war's cost at 25 billion dollars, mostly munitions, and said Iran's nuclear facilities had been 'obliterated' in 2025; Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine cited 14 US military deaths.
28 AprGovernment of the United States: Trump said Iran was in a 'state of collapse' and had been 'militarily defeated', and said King Charles III agreed that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon; he also criticised German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who had said Tehran was humiliating Washington at the negotiating table.
28 AprGovernment of the United States: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said US measures against Iran's shadow banking, crypto access and oil networks had cut its revenues and that the blockade was pushing storage at Kharg Island near capacity, which could force production cuts costing Iran about 170 million dollars a day.
28 AprIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said Iran's air force had struck enemy bases across the region and got past US-designed defences, that more than 170 aircraft were hit during six weeks of war, and that any new aggression would meet a more crushing response.
27 AprHezbollah: Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem condemned Beirut's direct talks with Israel, said Hezbollah would not return to the pre-March status quo, and set conditions for dialogue including an end to Israeli attacks, Israeli withdrawal, prisoner releases, return of the displaced and reconstruction.
22 AprInternational Energy Agency: IEA chief Fatih Birol said the world was facing the biggest energy crisis in history, citing losses of oil, gas, petrochemicals, fertilisers, helium and sulphur.
22 AprGovernment of the United States: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that Iran's seizure of two ships did not violate the ceasefire because they were international vessels rather than US or Israeli ships, called the seizures piracy, and said Trump had set no deadline for an Iranian proposal.
22 AprGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said reopening the Strait of Hormuz was impossible given the US blockade and what he called a flagrant breach of the ceasefire.
17 AprGovernment of the United States: Trump said the Strait of Hormuz was open but that the US naval blockade would remain in full force as it pertains to Iran until a deal with Iran was 100 percent complete, and later that Iran had agreed never to close the strait again.
17 AprGovernment of Iran: Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran's enriched uranium would under no circumstances be transferred anywhere, after Trump told CBS that Iran had agreed to everything, including removing the uranium.
15 AprGovernment of Israel: A senior Israeli official said there was no ceasefire in Lebanon, after Al-Mayadeen cited an Iranian official saying a one-week Lebanon ceasefire would start that night; the security cabinet met that evening to discuss the idea and ended without a decision, Channel 12 reported.
15 AprIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Ali Abdollahi, head of Iran's central military command, said a US blockade creating insecurity for Iranian vessels would be a prelude to violating the ceasefire, and that Iran's forces would then not allow trade through the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman or the Red Sea.
13 AprGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi said Iran had met maximalism, shifting goalposts and a blockade when it was inches from an Islamabad memorandum of understanding, adding zero lessons learned.
13 AprGovernment of the United States: Trump said Iran's navy was completely obliterated with 158 ships destroyed and warned that its remaining fast attack boats would be immediately eliminated if they approached the blockade; he later said the right people in Iran had called wanting a deal.
12 AprGovernment of the United States: Vice President Vance said Iran chose not to accept US terms, that the US had put forward its final and best offer, and that it needed an affirmative commitment that Iran would not seek a nuclear weapon; he called the lack of a deal bad news for Iran much more than for the US.
11 AprGovernment of the United States: Trump said Iran had no cards beyond short-term disruption of international waterways, that its 28 mine-laying boats were on the seabed, and that whether or not a deal was reached made no difference because the US had won.
9 AprGovernment of the United States: Trump posted that Iran was doing a very poor job of letting oil through the Strait of Hormuz, that this was not the agreement, and that if Iran was charging ships fees it had better stop now.
9 AprGovernment of the United Arab Emirates: ADNOC chief executive Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said on social media that the Strait of Hormuz was not open, adding that this was not freedom of navigation but coercion.
8 AprGovernment of Israel: Prime Minister Netanyahu said on X that the two-week ceasefire did not include Lebanon and that Israel would keep striking Hezbollah, while backing Trump's efforts to ensure Iran no longer poses a nuclear, missile and terror threat.
8 AprGovernment of Pakistan: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the US, Iran and their allies had agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere, effective immediately.
8 AprIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC warned fighting would resume if Israel did not halt its attacks on Lebanon; Tasnim reported Tehran would withdraw from the agreement if Israel kept violating it, and parliament speaker Ghalibaf called the ceasefire and negotiations unreasonable given the violations.
6 AprGovernment of the United States: At a press conference Trump said any deal must include free traffic of oil through Hormuz, that only he would set a ceasefire, that the US had flown 10,000 combat flights and struck more than 13,000 targets since late February, and claimed the Iranian government had killed more than 45,000 people in the past month, without giving evidence.
6 AprGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei called Trump's threats to strike power plants and bridges incitement to war crimes and crimes against humanity, and called the Pakistani plan extremely ambitious, unusual and illogical, while saying Iran would never accept the US 15-point plan.
6 AprGovernment of Iran: Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser to the supreme leader, warned Gulf states that strikes on Iranian power plants would bring attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure, and said one misstep could severely disrupt global energy flows.
5 AprIsrael Defense Forces: IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said Israeli forces had killed more than 1,000 Hezbollah operatives since the group joined the war on 2 March, and that the number would keep rising. Hezbollah has issued no official count of its dead.
5 AprGovernment of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that Tuesday would be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day in Iran, threatening to strike Iranian power plants and bridges unless the Strait of Hormuz reopened.
3 AprIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran's army spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari warned that if the US struck Iranian power plants, Iran would target regional power plants and energy and telecoms companies with US shareholders; the IRGC said US bases and Israeli military sites were its targets.
2 AprGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran had received messages from the US but trust for any negotiations was at zero; Iran called US demands maximalist and irrational and denied that ceasefire talks were under way.
1 AprGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei called Trump's claim that Iran's president had asked for a ceasefire false and baseless, according to Iranian state television. The IRGC said the Strait of Hormuz remained firmly under its control and would not be opened to Iran's enemies.
1 AprGovernment of Iran: President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote an open letter to the American public saying Iran bore no ill will toward Americans, urging them to question their government's motives, and warning that attacks on Iranian energy and industrial sites would have consequences.
1 AprGovernment of the United States: Trump told the Telegraph he would strongly consider pulling the US out of NATO, amid allied reluctance to join operations in the Strait of Hormuz. UK Prime Minister Starmer said the UK remained fully committed to NATO, and Secretary of State Rubio said the US would reexamine the relationship.
1 AprGovernment of the United States: Trump said on Truth Social that Iran's president had just asked the US for a ceasefire, and that the US would consider one only once the Strait of Hormuz was open.
1 AprGovernment of the United States: In a prime-time address on the evening of 1 April (US Eastern time), President Trump said the operation's core strategic objectives were nearing completion, that the US would hit Iran extremely hard over the next two to three weeks, and that if no deal was reached it could strike Iran's electric plants and possibly its oil industry. He told countries that rely on the Strait of Hormuz to take charge of it and claimed Iran had been close to a nuclear weapon, which CBS noted US intelligence had said last year Iran was not actively pursuing.
31 MarGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi said Iran's attacks target only US forces and that it was high time to eject US forces from Gulf bases.
31 MarGovernment of Israel: Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel's war goals were more than half achieved, without giving an end date; US defence secretary Hegseth said the coming days would be decisive and did not rule out ground forces.
31 MarGovernment of Qatar: Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said Gulf states were unified in calling for de-escalation.
30 MarGovernment of the United States: President Trump said the US was in serious discussions with a new and more reasonable regime, and that if a deal was not shortly reached and Hormuz was not open for business the US would obliterate Iran's electric generating plants, oil wells, Kharg Island and possibly all desalination plants. Legal scholars quoted by Al Jazeera called the threat collective punishment; the White House said it would act within the law.
30 MarGovernment of the United States: Secretary of State Rubio told Al Jazeera the Strait of Hormuz would reopen one way or another, that messages and some direct talks were taking place through intermediaries, that Iran's air force had been destroyed and its navy largely destroyed, and rejected Iran's demand for sovereignty over the strait.
30 MarGovernment of Iran: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran had received messages through intermediaries but called the US proposals unrealistic, illogical and excessive, and said Iran did not take part in the framework Pakistan set up.
29 MarGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker Ghalibaf said the enemy openly sends messages of negotiation and secretly plans a ground attack, that Iran's missiles remain in place, and that Iran's men are waiting for American soldiers on the ground; he warned any attempt to seize an Iranian island would bring attacks on the vital infrastructure of a regional country that helped.
29 MarGovernment of the United States: In a Financial Times interview President Trump said he wanted to take the oil in Iran and that maybe the US would take Kharg Island, maybe not; aboard Air Force One he said he saw a deal with Iran that could be soon and that Iran had agreed to most of the 15-point plan.
29 MarIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran's navy chief Shahram Irani said on state TV that the USS Abraham Lincoln would be targeted if it came within range, in retaliation for the sinking of the frigate Dena on 4 March.
28 MarGovernment of the United Arab Emirates: Emirati minister and ADNOC chief Sultan al-Jaber called Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz economic terrorism.
28 MarGovernment of Iran: Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesman for parliament's national security commission, said the NPT had no benefit for Iran, and lawmakers uploaded priority legislation to withdraw from the treaty; the bill would also need Guardian Council approval.
28 MarGovernment of the United States: President Trump said he was very disappointed with NATO and that allies were not there on Hormuz despite the US spending hundreds of billions on them; envoy Witkoff said he expected meetings with Iran that week.
27 MarIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC aerospace commander Majid Moosavi said the equation would no longer be an eye for an eye and urged workers at US- and Israeli-linked companies in the region to leave their workplaces; Araghchi said Iran would exact a heavy price for strikes on steel plants and nuclear sites.
27 MarGovernment of Israel: Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said Israel would intensify its campaign against Iran and widen its targets, and that there would be no let-up.
27 MarGovernment of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after G7 talks in France that he expected the operation to end in weeks, not months, and called Iran's planned Hormuz tolls illegal, unacceptable and dangerous to the world.
26 MarGovernment of the United States: In a cabinet meeting President Trump said Iran was begging for a deal, called reports that Iran rejected the 15-point plan wrong, and said the strait would open if they make the right deal.
26 MarUnited States Armed Forces: CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper said the killing of Tangsiri makes the region safer and that US forces had destroyed about 92 percent of Iran's large naval vessels.
26 MarGovernment of Iran: Iranian officials called the US proposal one-sided and unfair and set out five demands they called non-negotiable, including reparations and continued sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
25 MarGovernment of Israel: Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon said Israel was not part of US-Iran talks and would continue operations until Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities are eliminated.
25 MarIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iranian military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaqari said no one like us will make a deal with you, not now, not ever, as Iranian leaders said the US was negotiating with itself.
25 MarGulf Cooperation Council: Gulf Cooperation Council states demanded a seat in any talks, guarantees for energy flows and an end to threats from Iran's missiles, nuclear programme and regional proxies.
23 MarGovernment of the United States: President Trump said the US and Iran had very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of hostilities, that Witkoff and Kushner had held talks, and that Iran must give up its enriched uranium stockpile for a deal.
23 MarIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC said it would target power plants supplying US bases if the US struck Iranian power plants.
23 MarGovernment of Iran: Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said no negotiations had been held with the US and called the reports fake news aimed at manipulating oil markets.
22 MarGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi told CBS the strait is open to all except the US and its allies, that a number of countries had approached Iran seeking safe passage, and that a group of ships from different countries had been allowed through.
22 MarIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran's military command said that if its fuel and energy infrastructure were attacked it would strike fuel, energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure used by the US and its allies in the region; the IRGC separately threatened to close the strait completely until any destroyed facilities were rebuilt.
21 MarGovernment of Israel: Prime Minister Netanyahu called the night of the Arad and Dimona strikes a very difficult evening and vowed to keep striking Iran and its allies.
21 MarGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Araghchi said Iran would exercise its right to self-defence and warned that British lives were in danger after the UK allowed the US to use its bases.
21 MarUnited States Armed Forces: CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper said Iran's ability to attack ships had been degraded after US jets dropped 5,000-pound bombs on an underground coastal facility storing anti-ship cruise missiles and mobile launchers.
20 MarGovernment of the United States: In a Truth Social post President Trump called NATO countries cowards and said the US would remember, arguing that with the fighting militarily won the allies complain about oil prices but will not help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
20 MarGovernment of Iran: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written Nowruz message that the enemy had been defeated; President Pezeshkian said Iran does not seek war with its neighbours and is not pursuing nuclear weapons.
20 MarGovernment of the United States: President Trump said the US was getting very close to meeting its objectives and was considering winding down military efforts, that other countries should guard and police the Strait of Hormuz, and that he was not looking for a ceasefire.
19 MarGovernment of Israel: Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel acted alone in striking the gas compound, that Trump asked Israel to hold off on further such attacks, that Iran could no longer enrich uranium or build ballistic missiles, and that the war would end a lot faster than people think. He denied Israel dragged the US into the war.
19 MarGovernment of Saudi Arabia: Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said Iran's attacks appeared premeditated and aimed to blackmail Arab and Islamic countries, that Gulf patience was not unlimited, and Riyadh said the little trust that remained in Iran had been completely shattered.
19 MarIslamic Republic of Iran Army: A spokesperson for Iran's central military command said Iran's response to the South Pars attack had not ended and warned of a much more severe response against the energy infrastructure of US and Israeli allies if attacked again; Iran also warned of zero restraint.
19 MarGovernment of the United States: President Trump said neither the US nor Qatar knew of the South Pars strike, that Israel would not strike it again, and that if Iran attacked Qatar's energy facilities again the US would massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars field. He also said he was not sending ground troops.
18 MarGovernment of Germany: German chancellor Friedrich Merz said Berlin would have advised against the war; he said Tehran bears responsibility but that the US and Israel had shown no convincing plan.
18 MarGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran's political system remained strong, blamed the US for the war, denied that Iran targets civilians and warned that US forces across the Gulf made escalation unavoidable.
17 MarGovernment of Iran: President Masoud Pezeshkian defended Iran's right to self-defence, said Iran did not start the war and said it would not surrender to bullies.
17 MarGovernment of the United States: President Trump pressed the UK and France in particular to help secure shipping in Hormuz and asked to delay his late-March trip to China by a month, saying the US had a war going on.
17 MarGovernment of Israel: Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said displaced Lebanese would not be allowed to return home until northern Israel was safe.
16 MarEuropean Union (High Representative and EEAS): EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said after a meeting of EU foreign ministers that there was no appetite for now to extend the EU's Aspides naval mission to the Strait of Hormuz, and that the mission should instead be strengthened; she said the door was not closed.
16 MarGovernment of Germany: German defence minister Boris Pistorius said of the Hormuz request that this was not Germany's war and Germany had not started it.
16 MarIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC spokesman Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naini said most of the IRGC's weapons stock remained intact, that the missiles in use were about a decade old, and that Iran had not yet fired missiles produced since the June 2025 war.
16 MarGovernment of the United States: President Trump said the US was hitting Iran's drone factories and that Iran had very little firepower left; on Truth Social he called Iran militarily ineffective and weak and said it used AI as a disinformation weapon, without offering evidence.
15 MarGovernment of the United States: Trump urged other countries to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open, according to Al Jazeera's live coverage of 15 March, which also reported Tehran saying it was ready for a long war as Israel expanded its strikes.
15 MarIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: IRGC navy commander Alireza Tangsiri said Iran had not closed the Strait of Hormuz and the waterway was only being controlled.
15 MarIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC warned the US to move its industries out of the Middle East and urged people to stay away from factories in which US companies hold shares, after strikes killed workers at non-military factories in Iran.
15 MarGovernment of Iran: In an interview with CBS, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said "we never asked for a ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiation", that Iran saw no reason to negotiate with the US and nothing was on the table, and that Iran was ready to defend itself "as long as it takes". He said the strait was not closed, that ships were hesitant because of insecurity, and that Iran was open to talks with countries on safe passage for their vessels.
15 MarGovernment of Iran: Tehran's governor said at least 10,000 homes in the capital had been damaged or destroyed by US-Israeli attacks.
14 MarGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US struck Kharg Island and Abu Musa Island from Ras al-Khaimah and a site "very close to Dubai", called Trump's appeal for warships "begging", said the strait was closed only to "those who are attacking us and their allies", and said Iran would try not to attack populated areas.
14 MarGovernment of the United Arab Emirates: UAE presidential diplomatic adviser Anwar Gargash said the UAE "still prioritizes reason and logic" and was exercising restraint, while asserting its right to self-defence. On 15 March he said the UAE did not allow strikes on Iran from its territory.
14 MarIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The spokesman for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, said that if Iran's oil, economic or energy assets were attacked, Iran would destroy all oil, economic and energy infrastructure in the region belonging to companies with American shares or that cooperate with the US.
14 MarGovernment of the United States: Trump told NBC News that Iran wanted to make a deal but the terms were not yet good enough, questioned whether Mojtaba Khamenei was alive, and said the US might strike Kharg Island again.
14 MarGovernment of the United States: Trump said he hoped China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and others would send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz "open and safe". Britain said it was discussing a range of options with allies.
13 MarGovernment of Iran: Speaking to state TV at the Quds Day march, Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Larijani said the attacks on Iran were carried out "out of fear, out of desperation".
13 MarIsrael Defense Forces: Israel's military said it had carried out about 7,600 strikes in Iran and 1,100 in Lebanon since 28 February.
13 MarGovernment of the United States: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US believed Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded and likely disfigured.
13 MarGovernment of the United States: Trump said US forces had "totally obliterated every MILITARY target" on Kharg Island and that "for reasons of decency" he had chosen not to wipe out its oil infrastructure, but would reconsider if anyone interfered with ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. He said Iran was "totally defeated and wants a deal" but not one he would accept.
12 MarGovernment of Israel: Defence Minister Israel Katz said the operation would continue without any time limit, as long as required, until Israel achieved all its objectives.
12 MarGovernment of France: Macron said he had no confirmation that Iran was laying sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
12 MarGovernment of Iran: In his first statement as supreme leader, read by a presenter on state television rather than delivered on camera, Mojtaba Khamenei said "the lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz must continue to be used", vowed revenge for those killed, urged Iran's neighbours to close US bases on their territory and said Iran would keep attacking such bases. He said Iran would seek compensation and, if refused, take or destroy equivalent enemy property.
12 MarUnited States Armed Forces: US Central Command said about 6,000 targets had been struck in Iran and more than 90 Iranian vessels, including over 30 minelayers, damaged or destroyed.
12 MarGovernment of Iran: President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would consider ending the war if its legitimate rights were recognised, reparations were paid and firm international guarantees prevented future attacks.
12 MarGovernment of Iran: Iran's UN ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani said at least 1,348 civilians had been killed in Iran and more than 17,000 injured since 28 February.
11 MarGovernment of Iran: Iran's UN ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani expressed "profound regret" at the adoption of the Gulf resolution, called it a serious setback to the Council's credibility and a "manifest injustice", and accused the US and Israel of being behind it. He said more than 1,348 civilians had been killed and over 17,000 injured in Iran since 28 February.
11 MarGovernment of Qatar: Qatar's permanent representative to the UN said the resolution showed broad global rejection of Iranian attacks on the GCC states and Jordan.
11 MarGovernment of Iran: Iranian authorities said US and Israeli forces had bombed almost 10,000 civilian facilities in Iran and killed more than 1,300 civilians since the war began.
11 MarIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Iran said that on the morning of 11 March it attacked Israel's military intelligence agency, a naval base in Haifa and an Israeli radar system.
10 MarGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would keep fighting as long as necessary, casting doubt on Trump's statement that the war would end soon.
10 MarGovernment of the United States: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said a military investigation into the strike on the Minab school, which killed about 175 students, was under way and that the administration would accept its results.
10 MarGovernment of the United States: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president and the military had set an initial timeline of four to six weeks for the operation, with the goals of destroying Iran's missiles and missile production and its navy, permanently denying it nuclear weapons, and weakening its allies in the region.
10 MarGovernment of the United States: At a Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 10 March would be "our most intense day of strikes inside Iran". General Dan Caine said Iranian missile attacks had fallen 90 percent and one-way drone attacks 83 percent since the war began, and that US and Israeli forces had struck about 5,000 targets.
9 MarGovernment of France: President Emmanuel Macron said France and its allies were preparing a mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
9 MarGovernment of Qatar: Qatar's prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, told Sky News that Qatar would keep talking to Iran and seeking de-escalation, and described Iran's attacks on Qatar as a big sense of betrayal.
9 MarGovernment of Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry condemned Iran's attacks on the kingdom and other Gulf states, warned that Iran would face the heaviest diplomatic, economic and strategic consequences and be the biggest loser if they continued, rejected Iran's claim that Saudi territory was used for attacks on Iran, and called President Pezeshkian's assurances hollow.
9 MarGovernment of Iran: Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said China, Russia and France had contacted Iran about a ceasefire, according to Iranian state TV.
9 MarGovernment of the United States: Trump said the war would be over pretty quickly but not this week, that the US had struck more than 5,000 targets and destroyed Iran's navy and air force and 80 to 90 percent of its missile launchers, and that he was not happy with Iran's new supreme leader.
8 MarGovernment of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC that Iran's missiles cannot reach US soil and that Iran can instead strike US bases in neighbouring countries.
8 MarIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: An IRGC spokesperson said Iran would retaliate if US and Israeli attacks on its energy infrastructure continued, and the IRGC said it had enough supplies to sustain drone and missile attacks across the region for up to six months.
7 MarIslamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran's military said the Strait of Hormuz remained open but that it would target any US or Israeli ships trying to pass through.
7 MarGovernment of Iran: President Pezeshkian apologised to neighbouring countries for Iranian attacks, said they would not be targeted unless attacks on Iran came from their territory, and said Iran would not surrender.
6 MarGovernment of Iran: Iran's deputy foreign minister warned that European countries would become legitimate targets if they joined the US and Israel in the war.
6 MarUnited States Armed Forces: US Central Command said it had struck more than 3,000 targets in Iran and destroyed 43 Iranian warships since 28 February.
6 MarGovernment of the United States: President Trump said there would be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender, after which the US and allies would help choose acceptable leaders and rebuild Iran's economy.
5 MarGovernment of Israel: Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said Beirut's southern suburbs would come to look like Khan Younis in Gaza.
5 MarGovernment of the United States: Trump said he intended to play a direct role in choosing Iran's next leader and called Mojtaba Khamenei an unacceptable choice.
2 MarGovernment of Lebanon: Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called Hezbollah's attack irresponsible, said the decision of war and peace rests only with the state, and announced an immediate ban on Hezbollah's security and military activities.
1 MarGovernment of Iran: Iranian authorities confirmed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had been killed; pro-government crowds gathered in Tehran to mourn.
28 FebAnsar Allah (the Houthis): Two senior Houthi officials, speaking anonymously to AP, said the group had decided to resume missile and drone attacks on Israel and on shipping routes in support of Iran; there was no official announcement.
28 FebGovernment of Iran: Iran's foreign ministry called the strikes a clear act of armed aggression, vowed a response, and asked the UN Security Council to take immediate action.
28 FebGovernment of Oman: Oman's foreign ministry condemned the US airstrikes on Iran as illegal aggression and called for immediate and comprehensive de-escalation.
28 FebGovernment of Israel: Netanyahu said the attacks aimed to remove an existential threat to Israel and praised Trump's leadership.
28 FebGovernment of the United States: Trump said the strikes aimed at eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime and that the bombing would continue throughout the week or as long as necessary.