Middle East crisis live: Lebanon’s president refuses to meet Netanyahu until war ends

Joseph Aoun says Lebanon is in talks about a non-aggression agreement and tells Israel a military solution is not an option for long-lasting securityIranian media is reporting that there were no immediate casualties following apparent Israeli strikes on the Karun petrochemical plant in Mahshahr, a city in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province.According to the Fars news agency, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they responded to what they described as an American-Israeli strike on the Iranian petrochemical site by launching a missile attack on a similar plant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Continue reading...