Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had acted alone in the bombing of the South Pars gas field and confirmed that US president Trump had asked Israel to hold off on such attacks.

Israel targeted South Pars, prompting Tehran to retaliate with strikes on an energy complex in Qatar and other sites across the Gulf.

Iran is being “decimated” and no longer has the capacity to enrich uranium or make ballistic missiles, but a revolution in the country would require a “ground component,” he said, without elaborating.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has said US service members and average Americans will “suffer” from the war in Iran.

“I’m very fearful that there will be more troops sent there, that they’ll go into combat”, the Democrat told CNN’s Erin Burnett Thursday night local time. “We’ve got Illinois National Guardspeople, men and women, on the front lines out there. We’ve got members of the military from Illinois also in harm’s way”.

“We don’t need to be in this war. This should end. Now everybody’s gonna suffer, not just the people who are on the front lines, but also people all across the United States who are paying higher prices for gas”, Pritzker added.

Israel launched a fresh wave of attacks on Iran this morning, a day after president Donald Trump told it not to repeat its strikes on Iranian natural gas infrastructure, which sharply escalated the US-Israeli war on Iran.

The conflict has killed thousands of people, spread to neighbouring nations and hit the global economy since the US and Israel launched strikes on 28 February, after talks about Tehran’s nuclear program failed to yield a deal.

“The IDF has just begun a wave of strikes against the infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in the heart of Tehran,” a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces said, without providing details.

Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates said they were dealing with missile attacks in the early hours of Friday, following days of Iranian strikes on regional energy infrastructure that has roiled global markets.

“A stronger Japan and a stronger America, a more prosperous Japan and a more prosperous America. I am very confident that Donald and I are the best buddies to realize this shared goal”, Takaichi said Thursday evening, speaking via a translator before a dinner event at the White House.

The prime minister went on to praise Trump further and even wish his youngest son, Barron Trump, a preemptive “happy birthday” ahead of his 20th birthday on Friday.

It appeared that the awkwardness of the earlier exchange had disappeared.

While answering questions from reporters in the Oval Office, the president was asked by a Japanese reporter why he had not warned U.S. allies, including Japan, about the Iran airstrike campaign, which began on February 28.

Trump replied that he had wanted the strikes to be a “surprise”, before adding, “Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” — in reference to the devastating attack on December 7, 1941, in which Japanese troops bombed the US military base on Oahu in Hawaii.

US oil prices fell after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent floated the idea of lifting sanctions on Iranian oil already at sea.

“In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that’s on the water. It’s about 140 million barrels”, Bessent said on Fox Business Thursday morning local time.

US oil prices then dropped 1.56 percent to $94.64 a barrel, CNBC reported.

Oil prices have surged amid the growing conflict in the Middle East as Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that carries about a fifth of the world’s oil supply.

US Central Command has shared photos of American forces in action amid the Iran war.

Qatar has shared guidelines for worshippers going to Eid al-Fitr prayer services amid the Iran war:

• Arrive at services early to avoid traffic
• If a mosque is full, go to another mosque. Don’t pray outside
• If a national warning is issued, those inside a mosque should remain in place. Those outside a mosque should go to the nearest building.
• At the end of prayer services, leave the mosque in an orderly fashion, avoiding crowding and pushing.

Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the most sacred time of the year for Muslims.

The United Arab Emirates has said it disrupted ”a terrorist network funded and operated by” Iran and Lebanon’s Iranian-backed militant group, Hezbollah, the Associated Press reported.

The UAE said the arrested terrorist network operatives were “operating within the country under a fictitious commercial cover and sought to infiltrate the national economy and carry out external schemes threatening the country’s financial stability.”

Members of Iran’s national women’s soccer team were greeted by fans in Tehran as they returned home.

“First of all we are so happy to be in Iran, because Iran is our homeland,” midfielder Fatemeh Shaban said, per the Associated Press.

A couple of players decided to remain in Australia amid the war.