Iran is "desperate" to meet and discuss, according to US President Donald Trump, who also threatens to launch a "very heavy" attack on the purported new Iranian nuclear site.
Iran's state media claimed on Tuesday that Iran's top joint military command declared that if the US hit Iranian nuclear sites, it would target the interests of the US and its allies.
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States will permit direct flights to Lebanon, more than 40 years after direct flights between the two countries were halted in 1985, during the administration of US President Ronald Reagan, after the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
Iranian drone strikes are being intercepted by Kuwait's air defenses, according to the army.
On Capitol Hill, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth informed lawmakers that the United States had already spent $37.5 billion on the war in Iran.
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Peace Bell Ceremony in Observance of International Peace Day
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (centre left) poses for a photo in front of the Peace Bell at the annual ceremony held at UN headquarters on 20 September in observance of the International Day of Peace (21 September). With him are, from left to right: Jayathma Wickramanayake, United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth; Midori Goto, UN Messenger of Peace; Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly; Mr. Guterres; Koro Bessho, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations; Mariko Bessho, wife of the Permanent Representative of Japan; Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General; Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications; and Yo-Yo Ma, UN Messenger of Peace. The theme of the International Day of Peace of 2019 is “Climate Action for Peace” in order to draw attention to the importance of combatting climate change as a way to protect and promote peace throughout the world~ UN Photo by Kim Haughton