Iran Health Ministry: Supreme Leader Khamenei Only Superficially Injured in Airstrike

US President Donald Trump has dampened hopes of a swift agreement with Iran. "Trump has learned that the representatives of the regime in Iran negotiate extremely slowly and in very small pieces," said security expert Nico Lange.

The new Supreme Leader has not appeared in public since his appointment. Iran rejects speculation that he was seriously injured in an air strike. Follow all developments in the live ticker below.

4:49 p.m. — Iran Claims Khamenei Only "Superficially" Injured

Iranian Supreme Leader Moschtaba Khamenei was only "superficially" injured, according to the Iranian Ministry of Health, on the first day of attacks by Israel and the United States on Iran at the end of February.

Khamenei entered the operating room at a Tehran hospital at noon on February 28 but was able to leave the clinic early the following morning, Health Ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour told the ILNA news agency. He did not provide evidence.

Khamenei, 56, has not appeared in public since becoming Supreme Leader on March 8, releasing only written statements, fueling speculation about his health. In March, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Moschtaba Khamenei was "presumably alive, wounded and disfigured." His father, Iran's spiritual leader Ali Khamenei, was killed on February 28, the first day of US and Israeli attacks on Iran.

"Apart from superficial injuries to the face, head and legs, which did not lead to amputation or to any specific medical problems, nothing major happened," said Kermanpour. The injuries required "two or three stitches," but otherwise "no special interventions" were necessary.

4:29 p.m. — Trump Calls on Muslim Countries to Make Agreements with Israel

Donald Trump is calling on several countries in the Muslim world to join the so-called Abraham Accords on normalizing relations with Israel as part of a possible peace agreement with Iran.

In a long post on his Truth Social network, Trump listed the countries whose leaders he spoke to on Saturday about ways to end the Iran war. It should be "mandatory" for Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Pakistan to sign the Abraham Accords at the same time.

4:07 p.m. — Insider: Netanyahu Sees Influence on Trump in Iran War Dwindling

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly complained that Israel now has little influence on US President Donald Trump's decisions in the Iran war.

Netanyahu told this to confidants, the Reuters news agency learned from two Israeli government employees with knowledge of the discussions. Israel is currently largely excluded from talks about the desired agreement to end the war, which began around three months ago with joint American-Israeli bombings of Iran.

2:59 p.m. — Israel's Minister with Extremist Demands

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume bombing targets in Beirut in response to increasing drone attacks by Hezbollah.

For every drone, ten buildings in the Lebanese capital should fall, the right-wing extremist politician explained. However, according to media reports, Netanyahu rejects this and prefers defensive measures.

Ultra-nationalist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is also calling for a return to the war in Lebanon. Hezbollah has recently been increasingly using kamikaze drones that are difficult to intercept against Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.

2:40 p.m. — Iranian Delegation in Qatar for Talks on Agreement with USA

Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi are in Doha for talks with the Qatari Prime Minister. This concerns a possible agreement with the United States to end the conflict, an insider familiar with the visit told the Reuters news agency.

A fragile ceasefire has been in effect in the Iran conflict since the beginning of April. Talks about a lasting peace solution are proving difficult. The central points of contention are the future status of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's nuclear program.