UK urges swift US-Iran deal to reopen Hormuz

US Vice President JD Vance said he was "confident" the war in Iran would not become a "quagmire."

"I feel extremely confident that we are not going to be talking about America's involvement in Iran even a year down the road, but certainly not years down the road," Vance told USA Today.

"If this diplomacy ultimately falls apart, then the president has further tools at his disposal," Vance said. "But so long as we keep this thing anchored to the core mission — prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon — it's not going to become a quagmire," he added.

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf marked 100 days since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran, praising what he described as the Iranian nation's resistance in defending the country.

"One hundred days have passed since the struggle of a nation that rose up to protect beloved Iran," Ghalibaf said in a post on X.

He praised Iranians for standing behind the country, thwarting their enemies and preventing what he described as efforts to force Iran into submission.

Hezbollah praised Iran’s missile attacks against Israel as an act carried out “in defense of the Lebanese people” and described them as a message of Tehran’s commitment to Lebanon.

“The Iranian response came to emphasize that the interest of the stability of the region and its countries lies in exerting every effort to ensure that the agreements are upheld and that the Zionist enemy, before anyone else, adheres to them,” Hezbollah said.

“This is the message that Iran wanted to send clearly and forcefully to all those concerned.”

The group also praised Yemen’s Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah.

“This coincided with the appreciated support from the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, within the framework of joint action to deter the Zionist entity,” it said, using the formal name for the movement.

An investigation is under way into whether Iranian forces shot down a US Apache helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials.

The AH-64 Apache went down near the coast of Oman on Monday evening. The helicopter's two crew members were rescued after a US unmanned surface vessel located them in the water and brought them to shore in what the military described as a first-of-its-kind rescue operation at sea.

US Central Command said earlier that the crew members were rescued within about two hours and were in stable condition.

Israel will strike Beirut’s Dahieh district for any Hezbollah fire aimed at Israeli communities and test Iran’s response, Ynet reported, citing senior political-security cabinet officials.

"We have ordered the military to maintain the equation we set for Hezbollah, and this will be the test. For any fire intended to cross the fence, toward our communities – we will fire at Dahieh, and we'll see what Iran does," a senior cabinet official was quoted as saying.

Ynet said Israeli officials pointed out that Iran had not responded or intervened on Hezbollah's behalf despite continued Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, particularly in Tyre.