US-Iran war updates: Donald Trump tells Tehran to move fast on peace deal or ‘there won’t be anything left’

US President Donald Trump has issued fresh warnings to Iran, sharing a lethal and ominous threat.

Fresh from his trip to China to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mr Trump has hit out at Iran, warning his patience is running thin.

“For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them,” Mr Trump announced on Truth Social.

“TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!”

As Mr Trump returned to the White House, he appeared in front of a media pack, pointed to his office and said “see you tonight”, sparking speculation a major announcement could be coming.

His warning comes amid reports that the US is considering a new wave of attacks on Iran, something that would bring to an end the fragile truce currently in place.

The truce was initially announced as a two-week agreement while the US and Iran worked through details of a longer team peace agreement.

Mr Trump says Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, something he said China’s president agreed with, and he is pushing for the Strait of Hormuz to fully reopen without terms and conditions from Tehran.

Iran has demanded compensation for war damage, an end to a US blockade of Iranian ports and a halt to fighting on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where Israel is battling Iran-aligned Hezbollah.

A senior spokesman for the Iranian armed forces, Abolfazl Shekarchi, said on Sunday that if Mr Trump’s threats were carried out, the US would “face new, aggressive, and surprise scenarios, and sink into a self-made quagmire”.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the US and Israel had tried to shift the blame for destabilising energy markets following their “unprovoked military aggression against Iran”.

Nuclear power plant drone strike

The threat comes after a drone strike caused a fire at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, officials in Abu Dhabi say, at a time when progress appears to have stalled in efforts to end the war with Iran and restart shipping in the Gulf.

Emirati officials said they were investigating the source of the strike and that the UAE had the full right to respond to such “terrorist attacks”.

The UAE has previously accused Iran of attacking its energy targets in what it has called an escalation of the conflict in the region.

The drone hit an electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, the Abu Dhabi Media Office said.

Radiological safety levels at the UAE’s sole nuclear power plant were unaffected and there were no injuries, it said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said emergency diesel generators were providing power to the plant’s “unit 3” and called for “maximum military restraint” near any nuclear power plant, adding that it was following the situation closely.

The UAE defence ministry said two other drones had been “successfully” dealt with, and that the drones had been launched from the “western border”.

It did not elaborate.

- with Reuters, AP