Live – Iran’s IRGC not to let ‘one litre of oil’ to leave region as Tehran’s attacks continue

Mobile phone alerts and sirens just went off in the Qatari capital once again, Euronews journalists reported, as loud explosions could be heard from interceptions above Doha.

There are no reports of any damage at this time.

Earlier on Tuesday, Qatari foreign ministry spokesman said Iran was pressing its attacks, rejecting Tehran’s justification for the bombardment.

“The targeting of civilian infrastructure continues… and we rebuke any justification that the Iranians are offering for these attacks,” Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said.

A strike hit near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Tuesday, state-run media outlets reported, shortly after the Israeli military said it would target Hezbollah infrastructure there and warned residents to immediately evacuate.

“The Israeli enemy launched a strike on the threatened area,” said Lebanon’s National News Agency.

The Israeli military had warned that it would strike a building there and another in the coastal city of Sidon.

The United Nations said on Tuesday that more than 100,000 people had been newly internally displaced within Lebanon in just 24 hours amid the war raging in Iran.

“As of today, more than 667,000 people in Lebanon have now registered on the (Lebanese) government’s online platform as displaced,” said Karolina Lindholm Billing, the UN refugee agency’s representative in Lebanon. “This is an increase of 100,000 in just one day.”

“That’s a faster pace of displacement compared to 2024,” she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Beirut.

The Iran war could be disastrous for oil markets and it is vital to reopen the Strait of Hormuz shipping route, said Saudi Aramco’s CEO and president Amin Nasser on Tuesday.

“There would be catastrophic consequences for the world’s oil markets the longer the disruption goes on, and the more drastic the consequences for the global economy,” he told a media call.

“It’s absolutely critical that shipping resumes in the Strait of Hormuz,” Nasser added.

The Group of Seven nations, or G7, held off releasing oil stocks to bring down prices but are picking up the issue again with more discussions between their energy ministers on Tuesday, according to French officials.

France, which currently holds the group’s rotating presidency, wants “to advance on that question, with one objective, which is to bring down prices,” government spokesperson Maud Bregeon told local broadcasters on Tuesday.

“France is working on that for a very simple reason: If you put volume back into the market, you can have an impact on the lowering of prices,” said Bregeon.

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said the G7 ministers will meet virtually on Tuesday via video link. Lescure said “all options are on the table” adding that he, along with his counterparts, will collaborate on finding the best resolution and response to mitigate impacts of the crisis.  

Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul says there is no need now to send his country’s warships or other military hardware to Cyprus or the eastern Mediterranean.

An Iranian Shahed drone struck a British air base in Akrotiri on Cyprus’ southern coast last week.

Wadephul praised Greece, France and Italy for dispatching warships to the region, calling it a “pragmatic step,” adding that Berlin would augment a European force presence if needed.

Following talks with his Cypriot counterpart, Constantinos Kombos, Wadephul said he doesn’t have intelligence indicating “a real current threat” to Cyprus or another European country from the Iran war.

He stressed however that Belin will continue to monitor the situation, noting that situation can change rapidly from one day to the next.

“You can never predict what will happen the next day,” said the top German diplomat.

Saudi oil giant Aramco says it will reach capacity of its East-West pipeline “in a couple of days” to get its product out to the global market.

Amin Nasser, Aramco’s CEO and president, said the pipeline has a daily capacity of 7 million barrels.

“We should be reaching capacity, in a couple of days. It’s all been going on the repositioning of tankers from the East to West,” he said. “You know, this crisis happened all of a sudden, and tankers need to reposition to the West coast for loading.”

“The situation at the Strait of Hormuz is blocking sizable volumes of oil from the whole region,” added Nasser.

The East-West pipeline sends oil to the Red Sea for transport. Saudi Aramco operates the pipeline from the Aqaiq oil processing centre near the Persian Gulf to the Yanbu port on the Red Sea, avoiding the chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Tuesday that the end of the war will be determined only by Iran.

The IRGC warned that it would not allow even “one litre of oil” to leave the region if attacks continue.

“We are the ones who will determine the end of the war,” said Ali Mohammad Naini, IRGC spokesperson, according to state media.

The remarks come in an apparent response to Trump’s comments on Monday, where he offered contradictory information on when Washington may seek to end its war.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that Israel will continue striking Iran, in what seemingly contradicts remarks given by US President Donald Trump late on Monday, where he indicated that the joint war on Iran will end “very soon”.

“Our aim is to bring the Iranian people to cast off the yoke of tyranny, ultimately it depends on them,” said Netanyahu during a meeting with Israel’s hospital and health system leaders.

“But there is no doubt that with the actions taken so far, we are breaking their bones,” he added.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told government agencies and state companies to urge staff not in public facing roles to work from home.

The government said on Tuesday that Thailand was also suspending overseas training and study trips. The announcement comes as countries in Southeast Asia move to counter disruptions to oil and gas supplies, and their soaring costs, from the war in Iran.

The Vietnamese government ordered similar measures, but also urged people to limit use of their private vehicles.

Fuel prices have climbed and long lines have formed outside gas stations as drivers and motorcycle riders rush to ensure they can fill their tanks.

Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, dismissed any suggestion Tehran was seeking a ceasefire in the war with the US and Israel on Tuesday.

“We are definitely not looking for a ceasefire; we believe that the aggressor should be punched in the mouth so that he learns a lesson so that he will never think of attacking our beloved Iran again,” Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf wrote in a post on X.

“The Zionist regime sees its shameful existence in the continuation of the cycle of ‘war-negotiation-ceasefire and then war again’ to consolidate its dominance. We will break this cycle,” he added.

Israel’s military said it detected an Iranian missile launch targeting the country on Tuesday morning.

Sirens were sounded in Jerusalem and explosions could be heard in Tel Aviv as Israel’s military worked to intercept the incoming fire.

European gas prices dropped around 15% on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump signalled that the US-Israel war on Iran could end sooner than predicted.

The Dutch TTF natural gas contract, considered the European benchmark, fell to around €48, after rising sharply just one day prior.

“I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” said Trump on Monday, a remark which has eased global markets slightly. 

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country does not plan to hold talks with Washington anymore after his country suffered what he described as a “bitter experience” on two counts during previous talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme.

Araghchi accused the US of not living up to its word, saying they had received assurances from the White House during negotiations ahead of the “12 Day War” in June and the latest rounds of talks this year that no US attacks on Iran were imminent.

The top Iranian diplomat says the US betrayed his country on both occasions and moved to attack them anyway, on behalf of Israel.

He also says the US-Israeli campaign has been nothing but a “failure”, as he accused them of having no endgame in mind and merely launching indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.

“They failed to achieve their goals at the beginning, and now, 10 days later, they are aimless,” said Araghchi in an interview with US media outlet PBS. 

Azerbaijan has sent humanitarian aid to Iran, officials in Baku said.

The aid package includes 10 tonnes of flour, six tonnes of rice, more than two tonnes of sugar, over four tonnes of drinking water, about 600 kilograms of tea and about two tonnes of medicine and medical supplies.

The move comes in an effort to diffuse tensions which spiked between Baku and Tehran last week when Azerbaijan accused Iran of firing drones at its Nakhchivan exclave, targeting an airport and a school in two separate strikes. Iran denies those allegations.

Tehran’s judiciary is warning local media outlets about what and how it reports new developments as the war with Israel and the United States rages on.

That remarks were made by judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir as reported by the state-run IRNA news agency.

Jahangir said local outlets “that did not comply with security issues and had taken videos and photos of certain places solely for the purpose of informing were given the necessary warnings.”

“If this happens again, the necessary legal measures will be taken,” he said, without elaborating further.

Tehran has shut off the internet during the war and may be restricting reporting to hide what has been struck so far.

Turkey’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday the Patriot missile defence system is being deployed in the central province of Malatya, which hosts a NATO radar base.

The move follows NATO defences intercepting a second ballistic missile fired from Iran that entered Turkish airspace on Monday.

Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco reported profits of $104.7 billion (€90 billion) in 2025, down roughly 5.5% from the year before as the Iran war has seen its fields and facilities targeted.

Aramco released its annual results on Tuesday.

It planned to brief investors later in the day as the war that began on 28 February has seen Iranian drones and missiles target its facilities.

Aramco, formally known as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., reported profits of $110 billion (€94.5 billion) in 2024.

The company, primarily state-owned, said its 2025 revenues were $445 billion (€382.4 billion), down from $480 billion (€412.4 billion) the year prior.

The Israeli military reiterated on Tuesday the call for all residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate their homes as it planned to “operate forcefully” in the area against what it says are Hezbollah positions.

The Israeli Defence Forces issued similar warnings during its war with Hezbollah in 2003-2024, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

Lebanese officials say Israeli attacks across Lebanon, which started shortly after the United States opened fire on Iran, have so far killed at least 397 people and displaced approximately 500,000.

The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had completed a series of strikes targeting Hezbollah’s financial arm, al-Qard Al-Hasan.

The IDF said in a post on X that the Iran-backed group uses the financial institution to fund its military activities, purchase weapons and pay terrorist salaries.

Israel targeted several of the group’s branches in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday and last week.

The United Arab Emirates says it will lower the volume of missile alerts sent to mobile phones in the overnight hours.

The UAE’s National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority made the announcement late night on Monday, saying that the loud blaring alarm would sound on phones from 9 am until 10:30 pm local time.

A standard text message chime would sound from 10:30 pm until 9 am, it said.

The blaring klaxon had sounded in the middle of the night since the US and Israel fired the war’s opening salvo on the 28^th of February.

The change in the alerts signals how Gulf Arab states are trying to adjust to the idea of the war grinding on, as there’s no immediate sign of an end to the fighting.

Egypt hiked fuel prices by up to 17% on Tuesday as the war in Iran sent prices of crude soaring.

According to the Petroleum Ministry, the cost of a litre of diesel, which is heavily relied on for public transport, increased by more than 17%. The price of the 92-octane gasoline rose by 15% and 95-octane gasoline increased by 14%, hitting the North African country hard.

The most populous Arab country, Egypt depends heavily on imported fuel. The Egyptian pound fell to a record low, trading at over 52 against the US dollar on Monday in response to the crisis.

To mitigate impact of the war, the government announced a series of measures, including reducing official overseas trips and tightening fuel consumption across sectors.

The US president vowed aggressive action against Iran if it continues to block the shipment of oil in the Strait of Hormuz, further destabilising already volatile energy prices.

“If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again — Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them — But I hope, and pray, that it does not happen!”

The Republican president said his threat was a “gift” to China, among other nations, because it relies on oil from the Middle East.