Breaking News:Iran-US tensions LIVE: Iran says ‘no military solution’ to nuclear issue, signals openness to diplomacy– What Just Happened

Iran-US tensions live updates: Official Spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, Randhir Jaiswal, on Friday said that India is keeping an eye on Indians in Iran amid escalation with the US, ANI reported.

Addressing the weekly press briefing, Jaiswal said, “We are keeping an eye on the situation and staying in constant touch with the Indian community living there (in Iran).”

Iran-US tensions live updates: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday said that the next step in talks between US and Iran is for him to present a draft of a possible deal to Washington “in the next two, three days”.

“What we are now talking about is how to make sure that Iran’s nuclear programme, including enrichment, is peaceful and would remain peaceful forever,” Araghchi was quoted as saying.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said US negotiators have not requested Tehran end its nuclear enrichment programme, contradicting statements from American officials, AFP reported.

“We have not offered any suspension, and the US side has not asked for zero enrichment,” Araghchi said in an interview with the US TV network MSNBC.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Britain’s foreign minister Yvette Cooper will meet with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, after President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of London for ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which is home to a US-UK air base.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is said to be blocking Washington’s request to use British bases in case it moves to attack Iran.

Iran-US tensions live updates: A US federal grand jury has charged three Silicon Valley engineers with allegedly stealing trade secrets from tech companies including Google and transferring the information to Iran, the Justice Department said Thursday, AFP reported

The three engineers, identified in court documents as Iranian nationals, are facing charges of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, theft and attempted theft of trade secrets.

Iran-US tensions live updates: The weapons at Trump’s disposal are formidable. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is accompanied by three Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, which can carry Tomahawk missiles, Reuters reported.

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive US warship ever built at $13 billion, is accompanied by guided missile destroyers, and its associated air wing includes F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornets, E-2D airborne early warning aircraft.

Iran-US tensions live updates: The International Atomic Energy Agency’s board is scheduled to convene in 10 days, on March 2, for five days of meetings in Vienna.

That sets up a potential repeat of the timetable that played out in June, when Israel began strikes within 24 hours of the IAEA board’s decision to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with monitors.

Iran-US tensions live updates: An Iranian fighter jet crashed late Thursday, killing one of two pilots onboard, AFP reported.

The air force plane crashed during a late-night training exercise in western Hamedan province. The cause of the accident is under investigation

Iran-US tensions live updates: Norway is relocating some of its 60 soldiers it has in the Middle East to Norway as well as to other countries in the Middle East, citing the security situation in the region, Reuters reported, citing a spokesperson for the Nordic country’s armed forces.

Meanwhile, tensions have remained high between Iran and US, with the latter warning Iran to reach a nuclear deal

Iran-US tensions live updates: Gold prices rose on Friday, supported by lingering tensions between the United States and Iran and lower European bond yields while investors awaited US inflation data to assess the outlook.

Spot gold was up 0.7% at $5,032.49 an ounce by 0941 GMT, but was on course for a weekly decline of 0.2%. US, Reuters reported.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Salar Velayatmadar, a member of Iran parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, said the presence of US warships near Iran does not necessarily mean war is imminent and downplayed public concern.

Velayatmadar said concern about war was limited to a small part of society who, in his words, listen more to “enemy media,” Iran International reported.

Iran-US tensions live updates: In a letter to the UN Security Council on Thursday, Amir Saeid Iravani, the Iranian ambassador to the UN, said that while Iran does not seek “tension or war and will not initiate a war,” any US aggression will be responded to “decisively and proportionately.”

“In such circumstances, all bases, facilities, and assets of the hostile force in the region would constitute legitimate targets in the context of Iran’s defensive response,” Iravani reportedly said.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, on Friday, discussed the Iranian nuclear programme with Iranian counterparts, Reuters reported.

This comes days after the second round of talks was held between the US and Iran in Geneva.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Iran held annual military drills with Russia on Thursday as a second American aircraft carrier drew closer to the Middle East, with both the United States and Iran signaling they are prepared for war if talks on Tehran’s nuclear program fails.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he believes 10 to 15 days is “enough time” for Iran to reach a deal.

Iran-US tensions live updates: The UK government has held off on giving permission to the US to use the Diego Garcia military base for any possible strike on Iran, Bloomberg reported.

People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Thursday that the UK hasn’t granted permission for the US to use the bases for such a strike, due to concerns regarding international law as well as other considerations.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Oil rose a third day to a fresh six-month high, with President Donald Trump saying Iran had 15 days at most to reach a deal over its nuclear program as the US assembled a vast array of forces in the Middle East, bloomberg reported.

Brent climbed above $72 a barrel, and is up more than 6% this week, while West Texas Intermediate traded near $67. Trump said he thought 10 to 15 days was “pretty much” the “maximum” he would allow for negotiations to continue

Iran-US tensions live updates: Iran’s oil minister, Mohsen Paknejad, on Friday said that cooperation with the United States in the oil and gas sector is possible.

“Everything is possible,” Iran International quoted Paknejad as saying. He was asked about potential energy cooperation between Tehran and Washington.

Iran-US tensions live updates: United States ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz on Thursday said that Iran carried out an “industrial-sized massacre” of its own people during its crackdown on nationwide anti-regime protests.

“Even in the face of world condemnation over the killing of somewhere between 18,000 and 40,000 of their own people — an industrial-sized massacre,” Waltz said in an interview with Fox News.

Iran-US tensions live updates: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called on Iran to immediately release children who were detained during the nationwide anti-regime protests that rocked the country, as it warned of the harmful impact of incarceration on minors.

“UNICEF is deeply concerned by the reports that children arrested in connection with the recent public unrest in Iran remain in detention,” Iran International reported quoting UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder as saying in a statement.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Director general of UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said an “obvious” gap remains between the United States and Iran over uranium enrichment after he participated in peace talks between the two sides in Geneva on Tuesday.

“​​It is clear that there is, there is this gap which is, which is obvious, between the position of the United States, which is demanding… no enrichment at all, and what Iran would like to continue to be doing,” IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi noted as he appeared in an interview with CNN.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Satellite images on Wednesday showed the Islamic Republic repairing its key military and nuclear‑linked sites amid nuclear negotiations with the United States and an expanding US military presence.

The images sourced by Reuters showed a new facility at the Parchin military complex covered with a concrete shield and soil.

Visuals also revealed that the tunnel entrances at the Isfahan nuclear site have been backfilled.

Iran-US tensions live updates: United States Senator John Fetterman onThursday said that Tehran should be confronted with military force over its nuclear program, adding that the Islamic Republic can only be dealt with through “strength and power.”

“I think I clearly… how could you allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb?” Fetterman said in an interview on Fox News.

“Now we’ve demonstrated that the only thing Iran ever responds to is strength and power… you can’t negotiate with cancer. You have to attack it and go right at it with superior force,” he added.

Iran-US tensions live updates: Several US fighter jets and support aircraft have touched down in the Middle East.

F-35s, F-22s, F-15s and F-16s, left bases in the US and Europe and were spotted heading to the Middle East, news agency AFP reported citing the Military Air Tracking Alliance, which is a team of about 30 open-source analysts that routinely analyzes military and government flight activity.

The team says it’s also tracked more than 85 fuel tankers and over 170 cargo planes heading into the region in mid-February.

Iran-US tensions live updates: The US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three guided-missile destroyers have been in the Arabian Sea since the end of January after being redirected from the South China Sea, news agency AFP reported.

The strike group, which brought roughly 5,700 additional service members to the region, strengthened the smaller force of a few destroyers and three littoral combat ships that were already in the region.

Iran-US tensions live updates: US President Donald Trump likely will have a host of military options, which could include surgical attacks on Iran’s air defenses or strikes focused on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, experts say. But they warn that Iran could retaliate in ways it hadn’t following attacks last year by the U.S. or Israel, potentially risking American lives and sparking a regional war.

“It will be very hard for the Trump administration to do a one-and-done kind of attack in Iran this time around,” said an Iran expert at the International Crisis Group Ali Vaez.