Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have threatened to target US companies across the region, calling on employees to evacuate the sites.

‘Employees of American companies… are requested to leave these areas immediately. These areas will soon be targeted by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,’ said the Guards in on their official Sepah News website.

It was not immediately clear which companies would be targeted but last week, the Tasnim news agency published a list of potential targets on Telegram that included the offices of tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia in Gulf countries.

An Emirates plane prepares to land as smoke rises near Dubai airport

Here are the latest events in the Iran war as the conflict enters its third week:

• Dubai airport halted flights after a drone struck a fuel tank nearby in latest incident to disrupt travel at one of the world’s busiest hubs
• Oil loading operations have been suspended at the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah after a drone attack
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have warned they will attack US companies in Middle East with employees urged to evacuate
• The Israeli military said it has begun what it described as ‘limited ground’ against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
• Oil prices rose further, with Brent North Sea Crude up three percent to $106.50 per barrel in Monday trading
• Sir Keir Starmer said the UK will not be drawn into a wider war as he knocks back a request from the US to deploy British warships
• Saudi Arabia intercepts more than 60 drones since midnight
• Donald Trump said the United States was in discussions with Iran but that Tehran was not ready for a deal to end the war
• The US President said NATO faces a ‘very bad’ future if US allies fail to help open the Strait of Hormuz
• But European leaders have pushed back against Trump’s appeal to send warships to Strait of Hormuz

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It has emerged that Mojtaba Khamenei escaped death by seconds after he stepped outside to take a stroll in the garden.

Iran’s new supreme leader was targeted in the same attack that killed his father on February 28 – but his decision to venture outdoors ‘to do something’ saved his life.

Read our full report below

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has hit out at claims that he texted US special envoy Steve Witkoff – insisting they are ‘not talking’.

It follows reports he had contacted the American politician to open up lines of communication amid the war.

However, Mr Araghchi said:

My last contact with Mr Witkoff was prior to his employer’s decision to kill diplomacy with another illegal military attack on Iran.

Any claim to the contrary appears geared solely to mislead oil traders and the public.

Emergency crews have been pictured searching for survivors among rubble following a US-Israeli air strike on a residential building today in Tehran.

Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh warned of a second Vietnam after he was asked what the country would do if the US put Marines onto Kharg Island, which controls the majority of Iran’s oil output.

Smoke and flames were seen rising from an area hit by airstrikes in Kabul today.

Afghan authorities accused neighbouring Pakistan of carrying out the attack – as residents reported loud explosion overhead.

Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has released a new message, it is understood – advising current government officials to remain in post and push on through.

According to the BBC, he said:

I hereby announce that, for the present, none of them requires the renewal of their appointment.

It is crucial that they continue their work in accordance with the directives received during the lifetime of Ayatollah Khamenei

Khamenei has not been seen in public since his appointment on March 8.

This has prompted President Donald Trump to allege he is ‘dead’ – claims Iranian officials, including the country’s foreign minister, have denied.

In his latest broadside Mr Trump has said Britain ‘should be involved enthusiastically’ with helping struggling US forces reopen the Straits of Hormuz to oil tankers and bring down global prices.

He added he is ‘not happy’ and ‘very surprised’ at the UK’s response.

Earlier today Sir Keir insisted the UK will not be drawn into a ‘wider war’ in the Middle East today as he knocked back the plea for warships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Read the full story by David Wilcock below

Donald Trump has now issued a scathing attack on Sir Keir Starmer – asking why he insists on ‘meeting with his team’ before making decisions.

The US President vented his frustration at the Prime Minister consulting his advisers about sending a warship to the Gulf.

Saying he did not ‘need advisers’ to know what would happen to oil prices, Mr Trump said:

The Prime Minister of UK, United Kingdom, yesterday told me, I’m meeting with my team to make a determination.

I said you don’t need to meet with your team, you’re the Prime Minister, you can make your own, why do you have to meet with your team to find out whether or not you’re going to send some minesweepers to help us or to send some boats.

I said you don’t have to meet with your team, it’s the same thing here.’

Mr Trump added oil prices would fall ‘very, very rapidly’.

British pilots have continued to conduct ‘defensive air patrols’ over Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain and the Easter Mediterranean.

The Ministry of Defence added: ‘The UK now has more jets in the region than at any period in the past 15 years.’