An exhausted and disenfranchised Nato has given up on brainstorming a solution to Donald Trump’s quagmire in Iran.

Just weeks ago, the UK and France promised to contribute drones, fighter jets and a warship as part of a joint mission to safeguard shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron reiterated their willingness to deploy these forces last Friday, but momentum behind the initiative has evidently stalled as it was not mentioned once at the Nato summit in Ankara.

Israel reportedly recently shared intelligence with the U.S. about potential plans by Iran to kill President Donald Trump.

The news about the alleged plot, reported by The Wall Street Journal and CNN, comes at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with both sides trading strikes in recent days.

“They want to take out the U.S. leader — me,” Trump said.

“I’m on whatever list. I saw this morning I’m on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I’ve been a bit lucky, but maybe that doesn’t last very long. These are evil, sick people. And we have to root out that cancer. That cancer. You know what you do? You’ve got to cut out cancer early. And that’s the way I feel.”

The US military said it had struck dozens of sites across Iran in a second blistering night of attacks, triggering Iranian attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain.

Despite the new escalation, the UK’s Foreign Office has not changed its new advice for travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), published on 18 June, which removed the “all but essential travel” advisory.

The Greek government on Friday announced that petrol and diesel costs for consumers will fall this summer following a state deal with oil refineries aimed at reducing the impact of the Iran war on fuel prices.

Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament that Greece’s two major oil refineries agreed to price reductions until the end of next month.

“Fuel prices will drop by 10 cents per litre and diesel fuel will drop by 5 cents per litre,” he said.

Gas prices spiked in response to President Donald Trump’s resumed attacks on Iran this week.

On Thursday, the average gas price in the U.S. rose by five cents per gallon to nearly $3.85, according to data from AAA.

The U.S. military said it hit approximately 90 targets in an attack on Iran on Wednesday. Trump said he considers the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran “over.”

Thursday’s price spike is the biggest single-day increase since May 6, according to CNN.

Shortly before Trump departed for a NATO summit in Turkey, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined him in the West Wing. They informed him that Iran had fired on three ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz within a span of a few hours.

Outraged, Trump asked his top advisers whether Tehran was negotiating in good faith toward a final deal to end the war, sources familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. “In the end, after discussing it with his senior aides, the president decided they weren’t,” the outlet reported.

He has not appeared in public since the war began. While he has made written statements, no image, video or voice recording of him has been issued.

He suffered debilitating injuries in the strike that killed his father, his face disfigured and limbs badly wounded.

Senior sources in Tehran have said he is recovering but that he has not yet been well enough to manage public appearances. State security services are also trying to limit his exposure in case of more U.S. attacks.

Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed with the backing of the IRGC, who are now seen as the dominant force in Iranian political and strategic thinking.

Iranian armed forces launched attacks on US military infrastructure in Gulf states on Thursday following US strikes on Iran’s southern coastal and eastern provinces, further eroding a three-week-old ceasefire.

Iranian media later reported multiple explosions across southern Iran, including Bushehr, where one of the country’s nuclear plants is located, along with Konarak, Choghadak and Bandar Abbas.

But late on Thursday, a US official said there had been no American strikes in recent hours.

The foreign ministers of Turkey and Oman also stressed the need to avoid further military escalation in separate calls with their Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqchi.

In a call with the army chief of Pakistan, which has also mediated in the conflict, Araqchi condemned what he called U.S. “warmongering policies”.

Ship tracking data showed on Friday that more LNG tankers have resumed transiting the Strait of Hormuz in recent days despite the renewed fighting. 22 Japan-linked vessels have left the Gulf since Tuesday.