Trump says it is 'too late' for Iran to negotiate

Oil production has been suspended at Iraq’s Rumaila oil field, the country’s largest, due to export disruptions linked to the military escalation in the Middle East, Shafaq News reported on Tuesday, citing local sources.

One source told Shafaq that production at all wells in the field had stopped completely after exports were disrupted, leading to rising storage levels and full tanks.

The halt is temporary until shipping resumes and conditions stabilize, the report said.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said the international community is fully aware of the ongoing conflict in Iran and that the crisis will not remain confined to the region.

“The world is not blind; everyone sees this, and if it chooses to turn a blind eye or feign ignorance, it will face consequences,” Baghaei said, warning that the war in Iran could soon affect Europe and the wider world.

He said countries that believe they can stay on the sidelines while the conflict continues are “deeply mistaken,” adding that the conflict is “highly contagious” and will spread beyond its current borders.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is alive following an assassination attempt, informed sources told Iran International on Tuesday.

The sources said Ahmadinejad was not harmed and had been moved to a safe place.

Over the weekend, during Israel’s attacks, Iranian media carried conflicting reports about Ahmadinejad’s fate, with some outlets saying he had been killed while others said they could not confirm the claim.

Exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi called on ethnic communities in Iran to remain united, saying they would no longer face discrimination in a future system based on separation of religion and state.

“We are on the verge of the fall of this regime,” Pahlavi said in a statement.

He urged vigilance against “opportunistic forces” seeking to exploit the situation and pledged that in a post-Islamic Republic Iran, all communities would live “under the rule of law and equal citizenship rights” and preserve their identities “without discrimination.”

The UN human rights office called for a prompt and impartial investigation into what it described as a “horrific” attack on a girls’ school in Iran.

Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said the High Commissioner urged those responsible for the attack to investigate and share findings.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said US forces “would not deliberately target a school,” after Iranian state media reported that dozens were killed on the first day of US and Israeli strikes.