Iran war live: Trump says US ‘locked and loaded’ as it seeks Iran talks

 

Iran war live: Trump says US ‘locked and loaded’ as it seeks Iran talks

By Edna Mohamed, Caolán Magee and Heba Habib

Published On 25 Jul 202625 Jul 2026

• Saudi Arabia launches strikes on Yemen’s Houthi-held city of Hodeidah in the latest escalation during the regional war between the United States and Iran.
• President Donald Trump says dialogue between Washington and Tehran continues and a threatened “massive” attack may be unnecessary although the US remains “locked and loaded”.
• Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran does not fear threats or succumb to pressure.
• The Israeli military launches “counterterrorism” operations and orders a curfew in the occupied West Bank after six people, including four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers, were killed in violence southwest of Nablus on Friday.

• 38s ago

  (07:45 GMT)

  Despite overnight lull, Iranians believe US strikes are not over

  

  By Resul Serdar Atas

  Reporting from Tehran, Iran

  Last night was quite a surprise, because every night we got used to the attacks and seeing the reports coming particularly from the southern part of the country.

  Now everyone is curious whether that is over or not. But I will say that the overwhelming majority of people believe that it’s not over yet.

  In major cities there were no direct attacks.

  When it comes to the south, it was a different story. We have seen 13 consecutive days where depots, bridges, tunnels, hospitals and their vicinities, and nuclear power plants were constantly being bombed. And that was affecting their daily lives—disrupting power, water, food and other basic necessities.

  What we’re seeing now is that the people are indeed extremely concerned about the prospect of the war. They are tired, they’re exhausted and you can see that everywhere.

  But one thing is quite clear when you talk to the people: they say this [situation] of no war and no peace needs to come to an end; there should be a settlement.

  However, any final settlement must preserve Iran’s interests. There is a strong desire among the public to see the conflict end—and to ensure Iran is not further isolated, but rather more open to the world.
• 15m ago

  (07:30 GMT)

  Iran accuses EU of ‘hypocrisy’ over human rights stance

  Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, has accused the European Union of hypocrisy, saying its stated human rights concerns about Iran cannot be reconciled with what he described as EU support for military attacks on the country.

  In a post on X, Baghaei was responding to remarks by the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, about the bloc’s human rights concerns regarding Iran.

  Baghaei said the EU could not credibly profess a commitment to human rights while providing what he called logistical and technical support for “lethal aggressions” against Iranians that deliberately target civilians and critical national infrastructure.

  He accused the bloc of refusing to condemn what he termed war crimes and of offering no sympathy for Iranian children he said had been killed by American and Israeli bombs and missiles. Baghaei described the EU’s stance as “the banality of evil” and “the purest form of hypocrisy”.
• 30m ago

  (07:15 GMT)

  What’s been happening in the occupied West Bank?

  Israeli forces carried out overnight raids across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, while settler attacks were also reported, according to our colleagues on the ground.

  • Israeli troops raided Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho.
  • Forces entered the city of Qalqilya. A military raid targeted the village of Kobar in the Ramallah governorate.
  • Israeli soldiers entered the town of Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem. Troops stormed the town of Yabad and the villages of Zababdeh and Burqin in the Jenin governorate.
  • Another military raid targeted the village of Faroun, south of Tulkarem.
  • Military units entered the villages of Tal and Qaryut and the town of Beit Furik near Nablus, carrying out a detention campaign in Tal and searching homes in Beit Furik.
  • During the raid on Qaryut, soldiers fired tear gas towards Palestinian homes.
  • Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the village of Urif, south of Nablus.

  
  
• 45m ago

  (07:00 GMT)

  

  ‘Not just settler violence, it’s state-sponsored’: West Bank attacks grow, says activist

  Ubai Al Aboudi, a human rights activist in Ramallah, says settler attacks on Palestinian villages are systematic and carried out with complete impunity, describing them as “not isolated incidents” but something “happening all across the West Bank”.

  Al Aboudi told Al Jazeera that the violence is not merely carried out by individuals, but represents “state-sponsored settler violence”.

  He pointed to an attack on the village of Tal on Friday, noting that it had also been targeted a week earlier on July 18.

  “So-called hikers, as the Israeli officials called them, came into the village, burned a family house with the family still inside it, and it was a miracle that the residents of Tal were able to get that family out of the house before they were burned alive,” Al Aboudi said.

  He described a recurring pattern in which Palestinians face violence regardless of how they react.

  “If the Palestinians try to defend themselves, then the Israeli army comes and shoots the Palestinians, declares a curfew, and starts arresting and punishing Palestinians,” he said.

  Al Aboudi noted that out of approximately 1,200 cases since October 2023 in which settlers and Israeli forces had killed Palestinians, many of them children, none had resulted in the prosecution of a settler or an Israeli official.

  “This is happening with complete impunity,” he added.