Iran-US war latest: Trump discussesTehran’s new peace proposal to reopen Strait of Hormuz with top officials

NATO is considering not holding six annual summits, according to reporting by Reuters.

The move could avoid a potentially tense encounter with US President Donald Trump in his final year in office.

Trump’s administration has engaged repeatedly in ⁠scathing criticism of many of the defence alliance’s 31 other members, most recently berating some for not providing more assistance to US military operations against Iran.

The frequency of NATO summits has varied over the alliance’s 77-year history but its leaders have met every summer since 2021 and will gather this year in the Turkish capital Ankara on July 7 and 8.

But a senior European official and five diplomats, all ⁠from NATO member countries, told Reuters that some want to hold less summits.

US President Donald Trump met with his national security team this morning to discuss a proposal with Iran to mutually reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Speaking at the White House press briefing Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “The proposal was being discussed.”

“The president’s red lines with respect to Iran have been made very clear, not just to the American public, but to them as well,” she added.

French president Emmanuel Macron has said he will talk to Iranian authorities after his two-day trip to Andorra and would insist for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

“We have established a coalition whose purpose is precisely to ensure security, to secure and stabilise, to demonstrate that the international community supports an opening (of the Strait of Hormuz), and so I hope that we will be able to convince the stakeholders in the coming days,” he told reporters in Andorra.

The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes:

Russian support to Iran is real. Moscow has transferred or agreed to transfer advanced air‑defence systems, including variants of the S‑300 long-range surface-to-air missile systems to Tehran. Its excerpts have provided advice on improved accuracy of missiles and how to evade American defences. Russia has also been working with Iran on space launch and satellite technology.

The two nations also collaborate on developing live battlefield surveillance technology, which could be used to kill Americans.

Rather than try to stop this, Trump has turned on America’s Nato allies who have not joined his attacks on Iran alongside Israel, because it is an illegal war of aggression and choice – not an act of self-defence. His administration, which believes it owns the alliance of 31 other member states, is considering expelling Spain and suggested that the Falklands won’t get Nato protection.

Spain cannot be expelled by the US. The only attack on a Nato member by a foreign state has been by Argentina when it invaded the Falklands in 1982. The US gave almost no help to the UK then, and London did not invoke the mutual defence agreement between Nato members.

The US did that on 9/11 – and Nato members came to Washington’s aid.

The only beneficiary of divisions inside Nato is Putin. The US will suffer long-term as a consequence of it. Yet Trump has delivered just that.

Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 69 people and their families for “expressing support for Iranian attacks”, the interior ministry said on Monday.

Bahrain has been among Gulf countries that were subject to attacks by Iran in retaliation for US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran that began on February 28.

CEO of Wizz Air Jozsef Varadi has said he does not think the European budget airline will run out of jet fuel, amid concerns over shortages if the Iran war continues for a longer period.

Mr Varadi told reporters that at the $1,500 metric ton level for jet fuel, the price was so high that tankers were incentivised to head to the U.S. to collect it.

This made up for any shortfalls from the Middle East, a major source of jet fuel for European carriers.

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran was looking into US president Donald Trump’s request for negotiations, according to a post on the minister’s Telegram account.

He told reporters in Russia that Trump requested negotiations because the US has not achieved any of its objectives.

Trump scrapped a visit to Islamabad by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for talks on ending the conflict, and said Iran could telephone if it wanted to negotiate.