The Israeli embassy in Tokyo refused to accept a statement from atomic bomb survivors’ groups, which criticised attacks by Israel and the US on Iran.

Four groups part of the peace council issued a statement calling for an immediate ceasefire following US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran.

They sent the joint statement to the embassies of the countries involved.

“The document was sent back without even being read. I think they are becoming close-minded,” said Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 85-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council.

Pakistan is hosting talks with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt on the Iran war today, according to ​Pakistan’s foreign ministry.

Foreign ministers from the four countries are set to hold “in-depth discussions on a range of issues, ​including efforts to de-escalate tensions in the region” today and tomorrow.

“We would discuss where the negotiations in this war are heading and how ​these four countries assess the situation and what can be done,” Turkish Foreign Minister ⁠Hakan Fidan told broadcaster A Haber on Friday.

In recent weeks, Pakistan has positioned itself as a potential venue for indirect US-Iran negotiations.

It has ‌conveyed to Tehran ⁠a US proposal for ending the war and offered to host talks between the two sides.

Oman’s ​foreign ministry said on Sunday that it condemns ⁠attacks on its territory, adding that no party ⁠has ​claimed responsibility.

It ⁠said authorities were investigating ⁠the attacks’ “sources and ​motives” ⁠without providing ‌further details.

Oman said on Saturday that ‌a worker ‌was injured in a drone attack ⁠on the Gulf country’s Salalah port and Danish container shipping group Maersk said later ‌that it temporarily halted ​its operations ‌at ⁠the port after ⁠Saturday’s attack.

The Yemen government strongly condemned Iran’s “frequent attempts to drag” it into wars through its allied militias, the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) reported yesterday.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebel group claimed responsibility for launching missiles towards Israel yesterday, marking their entry into the US-led war against Iran for the first time since February.

“The new round of subversive Iranian policies, which the Houthis terrorist militias have joined, reproduces the catastrophic model experienced by other countries in the region, where armed groups outside the law continue to seize the decision over war and peace, and involve their countries in destructive confrontations,” Yemen’s internationally recognised government said in a statement.

Kuwait International Airport has suffered “significant damage” to its radar system following multiple drone strikes by Iran and its proxies, the country’s Civil Aviation Authority said yesterday.

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Israeli strikes have killed three journalists in Lebanon, including a reporter working for a Hezbollah-owned television network accused of being a “terrorist”.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it was investigating the attack, with Lebanon calling the strike a “blatant crime”.

“Once again, the Israeli aggression is violating the most basic rules of international laws and international humanitarian law and the laws of war, by targeting press reporters, who are ultimately civilians performing a professional duty,” the Lebanese presidency posted on X.

“We have seen a disturbing pattern in this war and in the decades prior of Israel accusing journalists of being active combatants and terrorists without providing credible evidence,” CPJ said in a statement.

Countering Donald Trump’s claims that Tehran had “very few rockets left”, a new report by Reuters suggests that only about a third of Iran’s missile and drone arsenal has been destroyed.

Another third is likely damaged or buried in underground tunnels and bunkers, according to the report, which is based on people familiar with US intelligence.

It suggests that Tehran still has a sizeable stockpile.

US officials earlier stated that the war in Iran eliminated Tehran’s missiles, with both Washington and Tel Aviv claiming that degrading Iran’s ballistic missile capacity is one of the chief aims of the war.

Israel said it “neutralised” nearly 70 per cent of Tehran’s missile launchers spread across Iran, but the Islamic Republic has continued to hit targets in Israel and the Gulf.

US has said it “unequivocally and forcefully condemns” attack by Iran’s proxies on the private residence of Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani.

“These actions by Iran and its proxies are a direct assault on Iraq’s sovereignty, stability, and unity. We categorically reject the indiscriminate and cowardly terrorist acts that Iran and its terrorist proxies have unleashed in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and throughout Iraq,” the US department of state posted on X.

However, Iran claimed that the attack was a US-Israeli assassination attempt, calling it a clear “act of terrorism”.