Iran-US war latest: Tehran vows to tighten grip on Strait of Hormuz as Trump mocks Iranian drone threatnewsline24

After a roughly seven-hour lull on Truth Social, president Donald Trump resurfaced with a burst of over a dozen posts featuring AI-generated Iran war images and golf tournament snapshots.

His account had been inactive through most of the morning and early afternoon, but at 3:51 p.m., the 79-year-old Republican shared an artificial image showing drones marked with Iranian flags plunging into the sea, describing them as “dropping like butterflies.”

Moments later, he followed up with another fabricated visual depicting a US warship firing laser beams into the sky, triggering explosions. The caption read: “Bye Bye, Drones.”Trump then shifted his focus to criticizing his Democratic predecessors — Joe Biden and Barack Obama — appearing to fault them for not taking military action against Iran.

A split-screen graphic showed a destroyed Iranian naval fleet under the label “Trump,” contrasted with intact vessels under “Obama/Biden,” echoing Trump’s statement last month that U.S. forces had sunk 159 Iranian ships.

The world has been deprived of about 1 billion barrels of oil over the past two months and even if energy flows resume it will take time for the system to return to normal, the chief executive of the Saudi oil giant said on Sunday.

“Our objective is simple: keep energy flowing, even ‌when the system ​is ‌under strain,” ⁠Amin Nasser ⁠told Reuters.

Saudi Aramco has reported a net profit of 120.13bn riyals ($32.5bn) in the first three months of 2026, a 25.5 per cent increase over the 95.68bn riyals ($25.4bn) recorded last year. It is one of several oil and gas giants to have reported massive profits since the US-Israeli war on Iran drove up prices.

The Israeli military this morning said it has killed over 10 Hezbollah operatives and struck some 40 sites in Lebanon over the weekend.

It said the airstrikes targeted buildings used by Hezbollah, weapons depots, a rocket launcher, and other infrastructure.

The operatives were struck after being identified near Israeli troops, it claimed

A Qatari tanker carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) crossed the Strait of Hormuz this morning, according to shipping data.

The Al Kharaitiyat tanker, which is en route to Pakistan, was approved for passage by Iran to build confidence with Qatar and Pakistan, both mediators in the war.

If completed, it would mark the first transit of a Qatari LNG vessel through the strait since the US and Israel started the war on 28 February.

Iran’s football federation said on Saturday the country will “definitely” participate in the 2026 Fifa World Cup and insisted that the tournament’s hosts – the United States, Canada and Mexico – consider Tehran’s concerns around the team’s travel and how it will be treated.

“All players and technical staff, especially those who served their military service in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, should be granted visas without problems,” Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran president Mehdi Taj said, according to Iranian media.

The team represents a country in a fragile ceasefire with the United States after the US and Israel sparked a war with attacks on Iran on 28 February, and whose citizens are subject to a travel ban imposed by the Trump administration.

Vessels from countries that comply with US sanctions against Iran will from now on “undoubtedly face difficulties” crossing the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia said.

Iranian lawmakers have ⁠said they are drafting a bill to formalise Iran’s management of the ‌Strait of ​Hormuz, ‌with clauses including ⁠forbidding passage ⁠to vessels ‌of “hostile states”.

​Germany is reviving efforts to buy Tomahawk cruise missiles from the US, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing ⁠people with knowledge of Berlin’s strategy.

The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is a long-range cruise missile typically launched from sea to attack targets in deep-strike missions.

In February, ‌the Pentagon said ⁠it had signed a seven-year deal with ⁠Raytheon to increase Tomahawk production as its stockpiles have ‌been depleted ​by the war ‌with Iran.

Berlin hopes to persuade the Trump administration to agree to the sale of the Tomahawks together with their Typhon ground launchers,the newspaper said.

Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius is planning a trip to Washington, the report said, in a bid to revive Berlin’s proposal to purchase long-range systems, which was first submitted in July last year. The US has yet to respond. The visit, however, hinges upon whether Pistorius can secure a meeting with Pete Hegseth, his US counterpart, unnamed sources told the FT.

A bulk carrier reported being struck by an unknown projectile while sailing 23 nautical miles northeast of Doha, Qatar, the UK Maritime Trade Operations said on Sunday.

The incident sparked ​a ⁠small fire ‌that was extinguished, with the vessel’s ‌master reporting no ‌casualties or environmental impact, UKMTO said.

Authorities ⁠are investigating the source of the projectile, while vessels in the area have been advised ‌to transit ​with caution. Ships were asked to ⁠report any suspicious ⁠activity to UKMTO.

Lebanon’s health ministry says a total of 39 people have been killed in intense Israeli strikes on Saturday.

Three Israeli drone strikes on vehicles just south of Beirut on Saturday killed four people while a series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least 13, including a man and his 12-year-old daughter, state media and the health ministry said.

The three drone strikes south of Beirut marked another escalation since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on 17 April. Both Israel and Hezbollah have continued their daily attacks despite the truce.