Israel-Iran conflict live updates: Trump’s latest Canada insult, Iran’s foreign minister hits back after Trump outburst

Donald Trump has made a major call on US trade talks with Canada after the country made what he called a “direct and blatant attack” on the US.

Welcome to our live coverage of the still febrile situation in the Middle East, and in US politics.

In an extraordinary outburst on social media, US President Donald Trump claimed he had saved Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khameni from assassination, lasing out at the supreme leader for ingratitude.

“I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH, and he does not have to say, ‘THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!’” he wrote on Truth Social.

In Gaza, Mr Trump said a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas could be “close”, predicting it may come “within the next week”.

On the home front, the US Supreme Court has ruled that nationwide injunctions issued by lower court judges “likely exceed” the judicial branch’s constitutional authority — handing the Trump administration a big win in the high court’s most closely-watched case this term.

Meanwhile in Washington, the White House is still fuming over media coverage of an initial intelligence report from the American military, which suggested Mr Trump’s strikes on Iran had left most of the country’s nuclear infrastructure intact.

Read on for the latest updates.

Originally published as Israel-Iran conflict live updates: Trump’s latest Canada insult, Iran’s foreign minister hits back after Trump outburst