After three weeks of war, the Trump Administration has begun initial discussions on the next phase and what peace talks with Iran might look like, with talks involving Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge told Axios.

There has been no direct contact between the U.S. and Iran in recent days, though Egypt, Qatar and the U.K. have all passed messages between two countries, with Egypt and Qatar informing the U.S. and Israel that there is interest to negotiate from Iran.

“Our view is we've stunted Iran's growth,” said one U.S. official who believes the Iranians will come to the table. The official said the U.S. wants Iran to make six commitments:

1. No missile program for five years.
2. Zero uranium enrichment.
3. Decommissioning of the reactors at the Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow nuclear facilities that the U.S. and Israel bombed last year.
4. Strict outside observation protocols around the creation and use of centrifuges and related machinery that could advance a nuclear weapons program.
5. Arms control treaties with regional countries that include a missile cap no higher than 1,000.
6. No financing for proxies such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen or Hamas in Gaza.

Video footage from inside a home in Dimona, Southern Israel, shows the moment that an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile struck a nearby residential area of the city, resulting in injured to at least 54.

Following a similar move this week by Qatar, the Saudi Foreign Ministry has ordered Iran’s military attaché and several other diplomatic personnel to leave the country within 24 hours and return to Iran, citing continued ballistic missile and drone attacks by Iran against the Gulf Nations, including Saudi Arabia.

Reports of yet another Iranian medium-range ballistic missile impact in Southern Israel, resulting in a number of causalities, with video showing a missile landing inside the Israeli city of Arad to the east of Beersheba.

Significant damage to several residential buildings can be seen in the Southern Israeli city of Arad, following the impact of a ballistic missile launched by Iran.

More footage showing the destruction caused by an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile strike tonight on a residential neighborhood in the Southern Israeli city of Arad, with injuries from the attack having surpassed 100.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has issued an evacuation order for residents near the Headquarters of the Al Jazeera Media Network and several other areas in Qatar’s capital of Doha.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump is now facing the toughest decision so far of his presidency, a legacy-defining endeavor, whether to deploy hundreds or even thousands of American ground troops into Iran to support a number of contingencies being prepared by the Pentagon, including the capture of Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, or operations deep behind enemy lines to secure highly-enriched uranium from nuclear sites in Iran, according to CNN.

For many Trump allies in Washington, the deployment of thousands of troops to the Middle East would mean the swift end of their public support for the Iran War - and likely threaten the administration’s ability to deliver the hundreds of billions of dollars in supplemental funding that will soon be requested from Congress by the Pentagon and White House. The economic repercussions of the conflict have led many of Trump’s Republican allies, staring down a tough political road to the midterm elections in November, to urge him to find a way out of Iran.

Overhead drone footage from United Hatzalah shows the level of destruction caused to several residential buildings in the Southern Israeli city of Arad, following the direct impact earlier of a medium-range ballistic missile launched by Iran.

With reports now stating over 5,000 Marines, accompanied by a number of Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG), and several thousands Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division are on their way to the Middle East, chances that the United States will launch a ground invasion of Iran before the end of 2026 have skyrocketed on Polymarket, currently sitting at roughly 57%, up over 40% since the beginning of March.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump attacks David Sanger and The New York Times for an article published earlier today questioning if all objectives have truly been achieved so far during the Iran War, with Trump stating, “The United States has blown Iran off of the map,” once again saying that the operation is “weeks ahead of schedule! Their leadership is gone, their navy and air force are dead, they have absolutely no defense, and they want to make a deal. I don't! We are weeks ahead of schedule.”

In a post moment ago on TruthSocial, U.S. President Donald J. Trump states that if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, then the United States will hit and “obliterate” power plants across Iran.

F/A-18E Super Hornets with the “Tophatters” of Strike Fighter Squadron 14 (VFA-14) and the “Vigilantes” of Strike Fighter Squadron 151 (VFA-151), assigned to Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9), take off from the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for strikes against Iran in support of Operation Epic Fury, March 17, 2026.

Qatar’s Ministry of Defense has announced a helicopter crashed in the territorial waters of the country earlier due to a “technical malfunction during routine duty,” with search and rescue operations ongoing off the coast of Qatar.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center (UKMTO) has received a report of an attack on a commercial vessel 15NM north of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

The Spokesman for the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, the unified combatant command headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces, has stated following tonight’s 48-hour ultimatum by U.S. President Trump, that if the United States attacks fuel or energy infrastructure in Iran, then they will attack U.S. and allied energy, information technology, and desalination infrastructure across the Middle East.