US-Iran war updates: US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth claims Iranian leader ‘likely disfigured”

A drone was shot down while attempting to approach the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh, the Saudi Defence Ministry has reported.

A Defence spokesman said air defences had shot down eight more drones in the central and eastern regions of the country.

In a post shared on his Truth Social platform, President Donald Trump has declared that the USA is “totally destroying” Iran’s regime.

The US leader told his fans to “watch what happens”, a potential sign of an escalation in the conflict.

“Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time - Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,” the post read.

Trump also went on to say it was his “great honour” to be killing members of the Iranian regime.

“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”

Two people have been killed in Oman after a drone was downed in the Sohar province, according to the nation’s government media department.

The agency cited a security source who said the drone made impact in the al-Awahi industrial area, killing two and injuring others.

It has been reported that both individuals killed were foreign nationals.

Israel’s military has hit more than 200 targets in western and central Iran in the past day, including missile launchers and defence systems.

It said fighter jets carried out “20 wide-scale strikes” targeting “ballistic missile launchers, defense systems and weapon production sites”.

Two people have been killed and three wounded in an Israeli attack on an apartment in Bar Elias in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, according to the National News Agency.

It said the attack had targeted an official of the Islamic Group, critically wounding the man and killing his two sons.

Hospitals are on alert after an Iranian-linked cyber militia claimed responsibility for hacking a major US medical equipment supplier used by health services across Australia.

The hacker group known as Handala announced that it had breached systems belonging to Stryker, a Fortune 500 company which manufactures and supplies critical medical and surgical equipment to hospitals around the world.

The group, believed to have links to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Cyber Security, said the attack was carried out in retaliation for a US Tomahawk missile strike on an elementary school.

It reportedly killed 165 people, most of them children.

In a statement posted on X, Handala labelled Stryker a “Zionist-rooted corporation” and claimed it had wiped 200,000 systems, servers and devices while stealing about 50 terabytes of data.

Health officials in Victoria and New South Wales said that to date there had been no disruption to hospitals or medical services in Australia.

Nationals leader Matt Canavan has welcomed Labor’s commitment to release 100 million litres of lower grade petrol.

But he said it would likely make little difference to the crisis.

“I’m glad the Government has finally stopped blaming Australians for the fuel supply crisis,” he said.

“But this release (100 million litres) is less than a day’s use of fuel, so I’m not sure that’s going to last very long.

“I just would hope that the Government here stops telling fibs to the Australian people.”

Petrol may be a little “dirtier” but it won’t ruin your vehicle, according to Capitol.com senior market analyst Kyle Rodda.

He told 7NEWS Australia previously had very poor fuel standards up until only a few years ago which was “much worse than what we are talking about now”.

“Although if this drags on yes it’s going to be a little bit worse than it would otherwise be but this is hopefully just a short term measurement and won’t cause too much damage to the vehicles on the road,” he said

Health Minister Mark Butler also reassured motorists that the extra sulphur added into Australia’s fuel for the next 60 days would not be damaging to a car’s engine.

“The new fuel will still be a cleaner level of fuel than it was only a few years ago,” he said.

“We’ve been lifting our fuel standards and that’s important not just to make sure that it gels with the new sort of vehicles that people are driving but also to improve air quality.

“But we will be relaxing those standards for a couple of months to ensure we have more supply.”

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has lashed out at “unAustralian” individuals who he accused of hoarding fuel then trying to sell it online at inflated prices.

“I ask Australians buy as much fuel as you need, no more, no less,” he said.

“There are other people, I’ve seen it on Facebook marketplace, filling up jerry cans, Bunnings running out of jerry cans, selling fuel at inflated prices.

“That is unAustralian. It’s dangerous. It shouldn’t be done now.

“We shouldn’t lump everybody in, (that’s) clearly a minority of people doing that.”

US senator Lindsey Graham has played down the possibility of US troops being deployed to Iran.

“I don’t see this conflict ending today,” the Republican senator said in Washington.

“I think the mission is to make sure they cannot regenerate, that they’re going to be beyond capable of building missiles to hit us and they’ll never go back to the nuclear business.

“There are weeks more of this coming, then we’ll make an assessment.”