Iran war live: Trump and Qatari emir discuss regional de-escalation efforts
Al Jazeera · Heba Habib, Yashraj Sharma, Daniel Khalili-Tari ·
Sheikh Tamim stresses the need for continued dialogue and diplomatic solutions to spare the region further escalation.
- 28m ago(12:15 GMT) Iran will not settle for US ‘paper commitments’, security official says Iran will not return to diplomacy with the United States on the basis of “paper commitments”, says Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. “Iran must see America’s practical actions with its own eyes, and whenever these actions are observed, the ground for opening a new chapter will become possible,” Bagheri Kani told the state broadcaster IRIB, accusing Washington of having wrecked “all four rounds of negotiations” over the past year and a half by breaking its commitments. Bagheri Kani said the main purpose of security council chief Mohsen Rezaei’s three-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday was to deliver a message from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. He said the message set out Iran’s priorities for bilateral cooperation so that Moscow had a clearer picture of ties under Khamenei’s leadership.
- 43m ago(12:00 GMT) British Airways parent says profit drops over fuel costs, cancellations from Middle East conflict IAG, the owner of British Airways and Iberia, has said that its net profit dropped more than 12 percent in the third quarter on soaring fuel costs and flight disruptions caused by the conflict in the Middle East. Profit after tax fell to 1.23bn euros ($1.37bn) in the July-September period compared with 1.40bn euros for the third quarter of 2025, IAG said in a statement. “Strong pricing was offset by lower capacity, the impact of one-off disruption events and in particular by higher jet fuel prices,” IAG said, with its fuel costs up more than 30 percent in the quarter. The group said its overall flight capacity had been hit “by cancellations due to the conflict in the Middle East, together with aircraft availability linked to engine issues and disruption related to air traffic control disruption”.
- 58m ago(11:45 GMT) Netanyahu claims Trump’s aid cut shows ‘strength and sophistication’ of US-Israel partnership The office of Israel’s PM Netanyahu has said that the country used previous US military aid “both to defend itself and to confront enemies who threaten America and the West,” after US President Trump announced earlier this week that the aid would finish at the end of this year. “US military aid to Israel has always been a cross-the-aisle agreement,” the office said in an X post. “The move by PM Netanyahu and President Trump from aid to partnership shows the strength and sophistication of our relationship, and its ability to adapt and stand strong over time,” the statement added. Despite Netanyahu’s framing of the cutting of funds, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said on Thursday it was “like a bolt from the blue” when Trump made the announcement. Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for Netanyahu, told Fox News that: “It’s been decades now that the American people, the American governments – Democrat and Republican – have understood that military aid to Israel is also helping Israel confront enemies that are a danger to the West. “While this aid has been incredibly important, [Netanyahu] has been working with President Trump to make the correct transition out of aid towards partnership and mutual investment,” he said. Advertisement
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