Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy has travelled to Pakistan for “peace talks” with Iran after its rulers launched fresh missile strikes on Tel Aviv.
A wave of missiles was fired at Israel on Monday, a day after Donald Trump declared peace talks with Tehran had been “good and constructive”.
Israeli police said widespread damage to buildings and vehicles was caused by the missiles, which included a munition carrying some 100 kilograms of explosives.
Air raid sirens and blasts from interceptions could be heard across Tel Aviv, with six people said to have been lightly injured in the strikes.
Iran also hit the Eilat area in southern Israel, as well as the cities of Dimona and Yeruham.
The attack comes after Mr Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform on Monday that the US and Iran had held ‘very good and productive’ conversations about a “complete and total resolution of hostilities in the Middle East”.
The US President’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff has travelled to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran after the US President postponed his threatened strikes on Tehran’s power plants.
Mr Witkoff, a key figure in the Trump administration, has offered to host in-person talks after the American leader told Iran’s rulers that they had “one more chance” to make a deal to end the war.
Mr Trump had threatened strikes on Tehran’s power plants unless it reopened the Strait of Hormuz, but extended a 48-hour deadline he imposed on Saturday to reassure global markets.
But there is no sign of any meaningful Iranian figure joining Mr Witkoff in Pakistan and the Strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil usually flows, is still in effect closed by Iran.
Iran responded to Mr Trump’s threats on Sunday by saying if its plants were targeted then energy infrastructure “across the entire region” would be “irreversibly destroyed”.
The regime then revealed this morning the eight Persian Gulf energy sites it will strike, via Iran’s Fars News Agency.
Brent crude swiftly fell 10% to stand at just over $101 a barrel following the post on Trump’s Truth Social platform, having earlier hit around $114 a barrel.
In a typo-ridden post on Truth Social, the US president said the pause will last for five days but added that it depends on “the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions”.
