{"id":205517,"date":"2026-03-27T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-israel-vows-to-intensify-and-expand-iran-attacks-trump-delays-strait-of-hormuz-deadline-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:01:26","slug":"live-updates-israel-vows-to-intensify-and-expand-iran-attacks-trump-delays-strait-of-hormuz-deadline-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-israel-vows-to-intensify-and-expand-iran-attacks-trump-delays-strait-of-hormuz-deadline-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Israel vows to 'intensify and expand' Iran attacks; Trump delays Strait of Hormuz deadline – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning Rundown: DHS funding deal explained, who the U.S. is talking to in Iran, and the college basketball coach who won’t quit<\/a><\/span><\/use><\/svg><\/a>
Despite Trump's claims of progress in peace talks, oil prices spiked again this morning after Wall Street had its worst day of the war.
More than 1 million people, including over 300,000 children, have been displaced in Lebanon due to Israeli strikes, the United Nations\u2019 refugee agency said in a statement today. \u00a0
They are \u201cfleeing continued Israeli strikes,\u201d the statement said, adding that the children deserved \u201cmore than survival\u201d and \u201cthey deserve a childhood.\u201d
<\/span>A displaced child at a temporary encampment in Beirut yesterday.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Murat Sengul \/ Anadolu via Getty Images<\/span>
Israel\u2019s strikes on Iran will \u201cintensify and expand,\u201d the country\u2019s defense minister said today.
Israel Katz said attacks would ramp up because the Islamic Republic had not heeded warnings \u201cto stop firing missiles at Israel\u2019s civilian population.\u201d
\u201cThe fire has continued \u2014 and therefore, IDF strikes in Iran will intensify and expand to additional targets and domains that assist the regime in developing and deploying weapons against Israeli civilians,\u201d Katz said.
Saudi Arabia and Ukraine have signed an agreement on defense cooperation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today in a post on X.
\u201cWe are ready to share our expertise and systems with Saudi Arabia and to work together to strengthen the protection of lives,\u201d Zelenskyy said, adding that the deal laud out the foundation for future contracts, technological cooperation and investment.
<\/span>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah last year.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> Anadolu via Getty Images file<\/span>
\u201cNow into the fifth year, Ukrainians are resisting the same kind of terrorist attacks \u2014 ballistic missiles and drones \u2014 that the Iranian regime is currently carrying out in the Middle East and the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia also has capabilities that are of interest to Ukraine, and this cooperation can be mutually beneficial.\u201d
Ukraine has already offered its expertise and drone technology to countries in the Middle East that have been hit by Iranian strikes.
And Zelenskyy has previously said that more than 200 of Ukrainian experts have gone to the region to share their knowledge and help his country’s allies.
Iranian drones and cruise missiles struck a port in the northwestern part of the Gulf, Kuwait’s Ministry of Public Works said in a statement today.
While damage was reported, no casualties were recorded, the statement said, adding, \u201cEmergency procedures in place for such cases have been activated in coordination with the relevant authorities.\u201d
A Thai-flagged cargo ship that came under attack from Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and was abandoned by its crew has run aground, Iranian media reported Friday.
<\/span>Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier Mayuree Naree near the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> Royal Thai Navy via AFP – Getty Images<\/span>
Thailand\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Friday that the Iranian and Omani authorities were able to reach the Mayuree Naree on a rescue mission as three sailors remain unaccounted for. The ship came under attack March 11.
The semiofficial Tasnim and Fars news agencies, believed to be close to Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, reported that the ship ran aground near the village of Ramchah on Qeshm Island.
Oil prices continued to spike this morning, with international Brent crude oil once again surpassing $110 per barrel. For the day so far that\u2019s up another 3%.\u00a0
U.S. crude oil prices are also continuing to climb and prices nearly hit $97 per barrel, up more than 2% for the day.\u00a0
Those moves come despite the Truth Social announcement late yesterday from President Trump, in which he said he would give Iran more time to reopen the Strait of Hormuz before striking its power infrastructure.\u00a0
Vessels from countries or ports considered to be U.S. allies are barred from entering the Strait of Hormuz, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement provided to state-run Student News\u00a0Network
Three container ships from different countries attempted to transit the strategic waterway but were turned back, the statement said.
\u201cThe IRGC Navy announced that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and any movement through it will face a strong response,\u201d the statement added.\u00a0
The United States \u2060should conclude its investigation into a fatal strike on an Iranian primary \u2060school \u2060at the start of U.S.-Israeli attacks \u2060last month and publish \u200bthe \u2060findings, the United Nations rights chief said Friday.
<\/span>The aftermath of a strike on a school in Minab, Iran on Feb. 28. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Abbas Zakeri \/ Mehr News via Reuters<\/span>
\u201cSenior U.S. \u200cofficials have said the strike is under investigation. \u200cI call for \u200cthat process to be concluded as \u2060soon as possible, and for its findings to be made public,\u201d\u00a0Volker\u00a0T\u00fcrk told the U.N. Human Rights Council \u200cin Geneva during \u200ban urgent debate called \u200cby Iran.
\u201cThere \u2060must be justice \u2060for the terrible harm \u200cdone,\u201d \u200bhe added.
In a letter Friday to the Israeli military\u2019s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, mothers of soldiers called for an end to the further ground offensive into Lebanon.
The group, Parents of Combat Soldiers, includes 600 military parents. The letter said the military was receiving orders from politicians who are ready to \u201csacrifice\u201d its children, and urged Zamir to focus on a political solution. \u201cFour soldiers have already been killed in Lebanon, how many more will sacrifice their lives in vain?!\u201d said the letter.
Attacks on Iran have damaged 82,000 civilian buildings, including hospitals, residential units and the homes of 180,000 people, across 20 of Iran\u2019s 32 provinces, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday.
<\/span>Vahid Salemi \/ AP<\/span>
<\/span>Vahid Salemi \/ AP<\/span>
Australia\u2019s prime minister defended his country\u2019s efforts in the Iran war, after Trump accused the U.S. ally of not doing enough.
Speaking at a cabinet meeting yesterday, Trump called out Australia specifically while complaining about the perceived lack of support from U.S. allies, particularly in the face of Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz oil trade route. \u201cAustralia was not great. I was a little surprised by Australia,\u201d he said.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his country had been \u201cconstructive\u201d in its response to the war despite not being consulted about it beforehand, sending a military surveillance plane that is playing a \u201ccritical role\u201d in supporting Gulf states under Iranian attack.
\u201cThere is no request being made to Australia that has not been agreed to,\u201d he told reporters.
Iran is allowing Malaysian vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the Malaysian prime minister said.
\u201cWe are now in the process of releasing the\u00a0Malaysian oil tankers and the workers involved so that they may continue their journey home,\u201d Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said in a televised address yesterday, according to Reuters.
The address came after Ibrahim held talks with the leaders of Iran, Egypt, Turkey and other regional countries about efforts to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
\u201cBut it is not easy, as Iran feels it has been deceived repeatedly and finds it difficult to accept steps toward peace without a clear and binding security guarantee for their nation,\u201d he said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in France meeting his Group of Seven foreign minister counterparts today, after President Trump criticized NATO countries over a reluctance or refusal to take part in\u00a0the Iran war.
<\/span>Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot during a G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Cernay-la-Ville, France, today.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Alain Jocard \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/span>
Rubio will have a hard time trying to sell the other top diplomats from G7 countries on the\u00a0U.S. strategy for the Iran conflict, to which almost all nations have raised objections. On his arrival at the meeting venue at a historic 12-century abbey in Vaux-de-Cerney outside of Paris, Rubio posed for a group photo with his fellow foreign ministers but none of them spoke.
What was supposed to be an uneventful first voyage transporting oil across the Persian Gulf has turned into a nightmare for a 28-year-old sailor from India, who has spent the past month stuck as his ship sits idled by the\u00a0Iran war.
\u201cWe don\u2019t sleep at night. We stay up on deck because you never know what might happen next,\u201d said the sailor, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals from authorities and his employer.
<\/span> <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Elke Scholiers \/ Getty Images<\/span>
He was speaking to NBC News from Iraqi waters minutes after an air attack Tuesday afternoon, which he says landed on Iran just a few miles away. He and the three other crew members on the small oil vessel are among\u00a020,000 sailors stranded\u00a0on hundreds of ships in the Persian Gulf, according to the U.N.\u2019s maritime agency.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Call it the world\u2019s most dangerous toll booth.
Iran\u00a0is forcing oil tankers to take a new route in\u00a0the Strait of Hormuz\u00a0through a narrow passage controlled by its\u00a0Revolutionary Guard, with\u00a0<\/strong>some ships charged millions of dollars to transit,\u00a0<\/strong>according to maritime data shared with NBC News.
The new system \u2014 dubbed \u201cthe Tehran toll booth\u201d by shipping industry experts \u2014 indicates Iran remains firmly in control of the critical waterway despite intense strikes on the country, and may be looking to cement that control over the longer term.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
NBC News<\/p>\n

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