Iran and the US are exchanging fire again as Trump wants a “good deal or no deal” at all

Iran's response to any “future aggression” from the US or Israel will take the war “beyond regional borders,” an Iranian military spokesman warned, repeating the regime's vague threat to extend the retaliatory attack.

Speaking to Qatar's state-run Al Jazeera network on Monday, Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi also said Iran does not want to build nuclear weapons, saying the country's conventional weapons make it unnecessary.

“The way we respond to any future violence will be different than before and will cross regional borders,” he said.

“We don't want to build nuclear weapons,” Shekarchi added. “We have conventional weapons that eliminate any need for them.”

He spoke a few hours before the US military attacked the southern areas of Iran. US Central Command called the nighttime raids “defensive strikes” carried out “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”

China on Tuesday called on “affected parties” to respect a fragile ceasefire in the Iran war, after the US military said it had carried out “defensive strikes” overnight on firing positions in southern Iran, as well as boats allegedly trying to lay sea mines.

“We urge the parties involved to fulfill their commitments to cease hostilities, resolve conflicts through peaceful means… and promote the early restoration of peace,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning told a regular news briefing when asked about China's stance.

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A radio station affiliated with Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has identified four marines it says were killed in US airstrikes overnight in southern Iran.

It named the four men as Abbas Eslami, Ghodrat Zarangari, Abdolreza Golzari, and Hossein Sotoudeh. Sotoudeh “was supposed to hold her wedding ceremony in the coming days,” according to the channel, which posted her photo.

The U.S. military's Central Command said Tuesday morning that U.S. forces conducted “defensive strikes … to protect our military from threats posed by Iranian forces.”

CENTCOM said the US strikes hit targets that included “Iranian boats attempting to lay mines.”

Iran's official SNN news agency reported that “the American-Zionist enemy” attacked ships south of Larak Island, in the Strait of Hormuz.

“According to local sources, last night American-Zionist warplanes targeted several Iranian ships south of Larak Island,” SNN reported, adding that “a number of our people were martyred in this attack.”

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Tuesday it shot down an American drone and shot down other aircraft that were entering the country's airspace.

US military aircraft “entered Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf region, and air defense units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps … identified and shot down an MQ-9 aircraft,” the guard said in a statement on its Sepah News website.

Security forces “also shot down an RQ-4 fighter jet and an intervening F-35 fighter jet,” the statement said, without specifying when the incidents took place.

The US has lost at least 16 MQ-9 Reaper drones over Iran since the war began, and three US F-15 fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait in a “friendly fire incident” early in the conflict, but there were no casualties. Depending on the variant, the MQ-9s could carry a price tag of more than $30 million for the US taxpayer.

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Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Tuesday that “Death to America” ​​and Israel will be “common slogans” around the world and that countries in the region will no longer be “shields” for US bases, in a written statement commemorating the Hajj carried by state television.

“What is certain about this is that the hands of time will not turn back, and the nations and territories of the region will no longer serve as shields for American bases,” said Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since taking office in March, in a message to mark the Eid al-Adha holiday.

He said the United States is losing power in the region, “moving further and further away from its previous position with each passing day.”

“In different parts of Iran and the world, and after these blessed days, 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' will be the common slogan of the Muslim Ummah and the oppressed people of the world,” he added, “especially the youth.”

These comments come as Iran and the United States continue negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement to end the war that began on February 28 and has spread throughout the region.

American intelligence shows that Khamenei is working effectively covered in an undisclosed location with little access to the outside world and is only reached by a labyrinth of couriers, according to US officials with knowledge of the matter.

He was wounded in the first US and Israeli strikes in the Mideast war, US intelligence said.

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An Israeli airstrike in eastern Lebanon killed 12 people, the National News Agency said on Tuesday.

Monday's overnight strike in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had authorized heavy strikes against the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon. The Israeli military did not comment on the strike but said on Monday it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in eastern Lebanon.

Rescuers say dozens of bodies have been pulled from the rubble following a wave of strikes that hit areas in the south and east of Lebanon overnight.

The deadly attack comes three days before Lebanese and Israeli military delegations are due to meet in Washington for direct talks.

Hezbollah is attacking Israeli forces in southern Lebanon and northern Israeli cities and has vowed to continue fighting until Israel halts daily airstrikes and withdraws troops from the country.

The Lebanese government hopes that direct talks with Israel, opposed by Hezbollah, will lead to a ceasefire.

More than a million Lebanese have been displaced by the war, which was sparked by Hezbollah firing rockets into northern Israel on March 2 in cooperation with Iran.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted on Tuesday that the blocked Strait of Hormuz would reopen “somehow,” after that. new US strikes on Iran they doubt the agreement to end the war in the Mideast.

“Issues have to be open. They're going to be open one way or another, so they need to be open,” Rubio told reporters in the city of Jaipur, during a visit to India.

“What is happening there is illegal, it is illegal, it does not happen in the world, it is not acceptable,” he said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier Tuesday that a deal with Iran is still possible despite new U.S. strikes that cast doubt on its ceasefire.

“There were some talks that took place in Qatar today, so we'll see if we can make progress. I think there's a lot of back and forth about some language in the first document, so it's going to take a few days,” Rubio told reporters in Jaipur during an official visit to India.

“The president has expressed his desire to do it. He will either make a good deal or not,” he said.

US forces on Monday began “defensive strikes” in southern Iran, US Central Command said.

“U.S. forces conducted defensive strikes in southern Iran today to protect our military from threats by Iranian forces,” CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said in a statement. “Targets included missile sites and Iranian boats attempting to lay mines. US Central Command continues to protect our forces while exercising restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”

The strikes follow what Hezbollah said was a series of attacks Monday on three military bases and a military base in northern Israel “in response to violations of the ceasefire” by the Jewish state.

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President Trump said in a tweet on Truth Social on Monday that he wants the International Atomic Energy Agency to be in place if Iran dumps its most enriched uranium in the country or “somewhere else acceptable.”

“The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will be returned immediately to the United States to be brought home and destroyed or, preferably, in cooperation and cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed locally or, in another acceptable place, with the Atomic Energy Commission, or similar, to witness this process and event,” the president said in the post.

A senior Trump administration official he said at the weekend that Iran agreed in principle abandoning highly enriched uranium in talks with the US and that officials were still working out the details of how to dispose of it.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf are in Doha, Qatar for peace talks, a politician familiar with the visit and a source familiar with the matter told CBS News.

Their visit comes as CBS News previously reported details of the draft memorandum for Iran to review.