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Dubai, United Arab Emirates — <\/span>Smoke billowed over central Tel Aviv on Tuesday as Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel and Gulf Arab states, even as US President Donald Trump said the US was in talks with the Islamic republic. war<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump also delayed a deadline for Iran to open the strategic Strait of Hormuz to shipping or target its power stations with air strikes, briefly driving Fall in oil prices and rise in stocks<\/a>. <\/p>\n The delay came as the US and Iran traded threats over the weekend for an attack that could knock out power to millions of people in Iran and around the Gulf and destroy desalination plants that provide drinking water to many desert countries, while raising fears of a possible devastation if nuclear plants were hit. <\/p>\n But no information about the conversation Dispute with Iran as described by Trump remains<\/a>Who denied any conversation. <\/p>\n “There has been no negotiations with the US,” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf posted on Twitter, adding that “fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets.”<\/p>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said that Israel would continue to attack Iran and Lebanon, even if the US was considering a ceasefire.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is still more to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been talking about the war this week with his counterparts in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Turkmenistan, his office said.<\/p>\n Iran fired several waves of missiles at Israel early Tuesday, with reports of impacts in the north of the country and an explosion followed by smoke billowing over central Tel Aviv. Officials did not immediately provide any information about the explosion. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, Israel attacked Beirut’s southern suburbs, saying it was targeting infrastructure used by the Iran-linked Hezbollah militant group. <\/p>\n At least two people were killed in the attack on a residential apartment southeast of the Lebanese capital, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. <\/p>\n In Kuwait, power lines were hit by air defense shrapnel, causing partial power outages over several hours. Missile alert sirens were sounded in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said it had destroyed 19 Iranian drones targeting its oil-rich eastern province. <\/p>\n Oil prices briefly fell below $100 a barrel after Trump claimed his government was negotiating an end to the war. But that relief was short-lived, with the price of international standard Brent crude falling back to $104 a barrel in morning trading, more than 40% higher than Israel and the US. The war started on 28 February<\/a>. <\/p>\n Trump had initially set a deadline of late Monday night Washington time for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on its power plants, but on Monday he gave Tehran five more days to comply. <\/p>\n Iran has allowed a small number of ships through the strait leading from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, but has said it will continue to target ships belonging to the US, Israel or its allies. <\/p>\n Its leaders are wary of Washington’s intentions, as Tehran had been in talks with the US before the surprise attack that started the war. Iran was also in talks last year after the US and Israel attacked its nuclear facilities, triggering a 12-day war. <\/p>\n “Trump, Netanyahu and people like them are liars by nature and their nature is to create division,” Esmail Kousari, a member of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency. <\/p>\n “We should think sensibly. Their nature is to create controversy so that they can make people distrust the authorities and make them believe that such action has been taken, when no such action has been taken.”<\/p>\n