US-Iran war live updates: Trump reveals oil ‘present’ from Iran; Israel claims it killed navy chief in strike; White House confirms it sent 15-point peace plan via Pakistan

Imminent talks between the US and Iran are likely to fail, according to President Donald Trump’s former security adviser, John Bolton, who also believes the Strait of Hormuz may be closed for another week or two.

“Even if there is a meeting, I don’t see the two sides getting closer together. So I think the burden is rapidly coming back on Trump’s shoulders,” Bolton said on Sunrise.

“His threat – which he has extended once – to bomb energy infrastructure in Iran comes back alive again Saturday night Washington time. We’ll have to see what he does. Does he give them another extension, or does he start carrying through on the threat?”

Iranian leaders may have changed but their ideology remains the same, he said, and doubted Trump’s assertions Iran is ready to make a deal.

Bolton, once Trump’s adviser and now an ardent critic, said the president had to clear the Strait of Hormuz to claim victory.

“I hear from our military’s perspective, they think they’re making good progress doing what they need to do to be able to make it safe to go through the Gulf and transit the Strait of Hormuz,” he said, adding he didn’t expect tankers to start crossing the key waterway for another week or two.

A US proposal for ending nearly four weeks of fighting is “one-sided and unfair”, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday, while US President ​Donald Trump said Iran must make a deal or face a continued onslaught.

The Iranian official said the proposal, conveyed to Tehran by Pakistan, “was reviewed in detail on Wednesday night by senior Iranian officials and the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader”.

It lacked the minimum requirements for success and served only US and Israeli interests, the official said, while stressing that diplomacy had not ended despite the lack for now of a realistic plan for peace talks.

Reuters

Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, said the US had presented a 15-point “action list” to Iran, delivered through Pakistan as a framework for a possible peace deal.

It’s the first time the Trump administration has confirmed the 15-point plan.

Witkoff made the comment on Thursday, Washington time, at a cabinet meeting. He added that Trump directed Witkoff to “maintain confidentiality” as the administration reached out, citing sensitive diplomatic discussions.

“If a deal happens, it will be great for the country of Iran, the entire region and the world at large,” he said.

AP

Israel claims to have killed Commodore Alireza Tangsiri, the head of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ navy.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, on Thursday night (AEDT), said Tangsiri had been killed along with other senior naval commanders in a strike overnight.

Katz said Tangsiri was responsible for bombing operations that have blocked ships from crossing the Strait of Hormuz. He said the strike should serve as a “clear message” to top Iranian military officials that the Israeli military would hunt them down.

In a post on X, the Israeli Defence Forces said Tangsiri had been “eliminated” in a “precise strike” in the port city of Bandar Abbas.

AP