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.