A man holds a picture of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, next to an anti-United States billboard [FILE: Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters]By Elizabeth Melimopoulos and AFPPublished On 1 May 20261 May 2026
Tensions remain high across the region, with Iran, the United States and Israel trading warnings as violence continues.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has described the US naval siege of Iranian ports as an “extension of military operations” that is “intolerable”, while US President Donald Trump said Washington “might need” to restart the war, adding that only a handful of people know the details of ongoing talks.
