A horror crash has left three people dead after a car collided with a tree.

Three people have died in a horror crash after a car collided with a tree.

Emergency services were called to Stoneville Rd in the Perth Hills — about 30km of Perth’s CBD — around 8.50am on Saturday after a motorist left the road and crashed into a tree.

Three adults who were travelling in the vehicle were tragically killed after suffering critical injuries in the crash.

Following the crash, police closed the stretch of the road to all other traffic while investigations are carried out.

The tragedy is now being investigated by major crash scene investigators from Western Australia’s police force.

An Iranian official has signalled what the nation’s next moves will be as the devastating strikes from the US and Israeli militaries continue

Welcome to our live coverage of the US and Israel’s war with Iran.

Donald Trump claims Iran has agreed to “most of” America’s demands and will ship a “present” of 20 tankers of oil tomorrow to “prove they’re serious”.

The comments on Air Force One on Sunday night came after the President claimed that the US was “already” taking control of the Strait of Hormuz, which he dubbed the “Strait of Trump”.

Meanwhile power outages gripped Tehran after Israel launched a fresh wave of air strikes on Sunday evening.

It came as Iran’s parliament speaker accused the US of secretly plotting a ground attack and said the country’s forces were “waiting for American soldiers to enter on the ground so they can rain fire upon them”.

“The enemy signals negotiation in public, while in secret it plots a ground attack,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a message published by the official IRNA news agency on Sunday, as another US Navy ship carrying 3500 sailors and Marines entered the region.

The Pentagon is reportedly preparing to send thousands more troops to conduct raids near the Strait of Hormuz that include Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops in a bid to dismantle the regime, The Washington Post reported, citing sources.

However, President Trump has yet to approve any deployment.

Iran said it has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz, a vital chokepoint which previously accounted for a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil trade, to hostile shipping.

Iran confirms commander death after attack

The Iranian hardliner who wielded control over a fifth of the world’s oil and gas supply is dead, killed in a devastating Israeli airstrike.

Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, was killed on Thursday alongside intelligence chief Behnam Rezaei in a precision strike on Bandar Abbas port. However, Iran did not confirm the death until this evening.

The killing has immediate implications for global energy markets and regional stability.

Tangsiri controlled the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway currently crippling the world’s oil and gas flows and had been sanctioned twice by the US Treasury for overseeing cruise missile tests and armed drone development, weapons now deployed in Iran’s current blockade of the strait.

Syria’s military says a large-scale drone attack had targeted its bases near the border with Iraq on Monday.

The reported attack marks the biggest such incident since the start of the Middle East war as Iran’s suspected proxies signal a readiness to intervene on behalf of the nation under siege.

The Syrian army reported “a large-scale attack by a number of drones targeting several army bases near the Iraqi border at dawn today”, adding that most of the drones were intercepted.

“We are studying our options and will respond appropriately to neutralise any threat and prevent any aggression against Syrian territory.” On Sunday, assistant defence minister for eastern Syria, Sipan Hamo, said four drones from Iraq attacked a US base in Syria’s Qasrak, but were intercepted.

Qantas has made a huge call on one of its most crucial routes due to the soaring cost of jet fuel, as Australia’s service stations grapple with a critical petrol shortage.

Qantas has announced Jetstar will cut some of its critical New Zealand flights, citing a rise in the cost of jet fuel.

In a statement, a Jetstar New Zealand spokeswoman said “temporary changes” had been made to the trans-Tasman schedule due to the soaring prices, as a direct result of the Middle East conflict and “other rising costs”.

“All impacted passengers have been contacted directly, and most have been offered same-day travel,” the spokeswoman continued.

“We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank our customers for their understanding.”

The Australian Financial Review reports more than 55 flights have been cut from the route, according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium.

Some include routes between Auckland and Sydney and from Sydney to Queenstown, via Melbourne.

Adjustments in the schedule have been made to optimise the airline’s fleet across the network due to engineering and fleet requirements, the carrier said.

Flights on select routes are being adjusted to allow travellers to get as close to their original flight times as possible.

Customers are able to contact the airline and discuss their option via the chat function.

Meanwhile, Industry Minister Tim Ayres revealing 8 per cent of service stations nationwide are without one or more grades of fuel.

That means as many as 560 stations across Australia are missing either diesel, petrol or both on Tuesday.

Addressing question time, Energy Minister Chris Bowen gave a state-by-state breakdown of the fuel crisis.

In NSW, out of 2417 service stations, 164 were without diesel and 289 were without at least one type of fuel, he said.

In Queensland, out of 1800 service stations, 55 were without diesel and 35 with no regular unleaded.

In Victoria, out of 1627 service stations, 162 service stations with without one or more fuel unavailable.

In South Australia, out of 700 service stations, 46 service stations without one or more grades of fuel, while in Western Australia, out of 771 service stations, six service stations were without stock.

In Tasmania, out of 257 stations, only one had no diesel, while six had no unleaded.

The Northern Territory and the ACT have no outages.

Bowen under fire over fuel

Mr Bowen revealed the Albanese government would also lower the technical threshold for diesel for six months, known as the flashpoint for diesel, increasing diesel supply options from refiners and international fuel sources.

The flashpoint will be lowered from 61.5C to 60.5C.

The Energy Minister has borne the brunt of the Coalition’s ire over the fuel crisis.

Asked whether the if any state or territory ministers have asked the government to prepare a fuel rationing plan, Mr Bowen said he had met with state and territory energy ministers last week and issued a communique – which “is not a secret document”.

Pressed again on the question, Mr Bowen told Liberal National Party MP Leon Rebello to “refer to my previous answer”.

He also confirmed bunker fuel, a specialist maritime oil, was not included in the release of the government’s minimum stock obligation.

Mr Bowen said the government was also engaging with the maritime sector over the fuel.

“We were able make a condition of the release of some of the minimum stock obligation prioritising maritime also apply for cargo and passenger vehicles,” he said.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers told parliament the government was not considering pausing the fuel excise.

The excise adds about 52 cents per litre to the price of petrol, but is not adjusted in-line with price changes.

“When it comes to the excise … it is not something we have been considering,” he said.

“We have been working very hard to provide cost-of-living relief in the most responsible way we can”, he continued, noting tax cuts.

He also rebuffed a question form independent MP Dai Le about whether the government would half the excise, referring her to his previous answer.

‘No fuel’ website

It comes as the Coalition launched a “no fuel finder” website on Tuesday, though key questions about the service remain.

That afternoon, Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie accused the government of being “flat-footed” in its response to the fuel crisis.

“So, in the efforts of being constructive and the efforts of bipartisanship, the opposition has set up a no fuel here website so that local community members can assist Chris

Bowen to understand where those supply gaps are, so that he can actually use the powers he has under the legislation to direct supply where it’s needed,” she said.

The website is already live and will allow Australians to report which stations have run out of fuel, or where “the price is too high”.

However, it was not immediately clear what protections if any were in place to ensure information being fed into the website was accurate.

Asked about similar inaccurate apps during the pandemic that led to panic buying, Senator McKenzie said the fuel website was not publicly reporting where shortages were.

“We live in these communities, and we know these servo operators and owners, and we want to keep their commercial data sensitive,” she said.

“It’s a repository for a lot of community angst out there that feel there is no where to go for the anxiety that families and businesses are feeling when they rock up to a servo.”

Senator McKenzie said there was “no hotline you can call”, and claimed Energy Minister Chris Bowen had “no mechanism” for getting information on shortages.”

“So this legit is information that we are happy to supply to the minister, at a confidential status, about which service station, in which community, suburb or town is running short or where the prices are running,” she said.