RT-Engels: 01-04-2026,
The US president is set to deliver a speech on the Middle East war later tonight
Welcome to RT’s live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran and the wider turmoil across the Middle East, which continues to be affected by missile and drone strikes from both sides.
As the war on Iran enters day 33, missiles struck an oil tanker off the coast of Qatar, as well as Kuwait’s airport on Wednesday, while US and Israeli airstrikes relentlessly pounded Tehran. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has claimed that Iran’s president wanted a ceasefire, which Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has refuted. “No ceasefire proposal has been made by Iran. The five-point plan allegedly proposed by Iran is media speculation,” Araghchi said, as cited by IRIB. The war will continue until the aggressor is punished and full compensation is paid to Iran, he added.
Trump is set to deliver a speech on the Iran war later tonight, his first prime-time address since the conflict began, as plunging approval ratings and rising economic anxiety deepen political pressure at home. The White House has given no details on the speech, but it comes hours after Trump claimed Iran had sought a pause in hostilities, even as he set conditions that underscored the uncertainty surrounding the war’s trajectory. Trump is set to speak at 9 PM (0100 GMT on Thursday), more than a month after the US and Israel launched the war,