What happened overnight

US and Israeli strikes hit Tehran and several other Iranian cities overnight, with power infrastructure in the capital among the reported targets. Iranian authorities said the blackout caused by the attacks has since been restored.

The war is also doing what wars reliably do best: unsettling oil markets, spooking stock exchanges, and making everyone pretend this is still somehow on the path to calm diplomacy.

US President Donald Trump said in an interview that he wanted to "take the oil in Iran," while Tehran accused Washington of plotting a ground attack even as Trump publicly talked up a deal. On Sunday, he said, "We'll make a deal with them [Iran], I'm pretty sure."

Those remarks came as Pakistan, which hosted talks on Sunday aimed at easing tensions, said it was preparing to host "meaningful talks" in the coming days.

In Iran

  • Powerful blasts were reported in Tehran. The Fars news agency also said there was another explosion in Ray, part of the Greater Tehran metro area.
  • The Israeli military said on Monday that it was "currently attacking the infrastructure" of the Iranian government "throughout Tehran".
  • Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, said earlier that the US was sending signals about possible negotiations while also preparing for a ground invasion. He said Tehran would be ready to respond if US troops were deployed, speaking on Sunday.
  • Supporters of the Iranian government kept up nightly demonstrations across the country on Sunday despite the danger from continued US and Israeli air raids, according to Fars.
  • Two people were executed in Iran after being accused by the semi-official Tasnim news agency of working with the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group backed by the US and Israel that has previously taken up arms against the state.
  • Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi said attacks over the past 24 hours were reported in Karaj, Shiraz, Qom, Abadan and Tabriz. He added that power infrastructure near Tehran was hit, causing several hours of blackout before the government said it was restored. He also said a petrochemical unit in Tabriz was reportedly struck.
  • Fars later said a fire at the Tabriz petrochemical plant had been contained and that the situation was under "complete control".
  • More than 2,000 people have been killed and thousands of civilian sites have been targeted in the US-Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28.

Diplomatic efforts

  • Pakistan talks: Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said regional foreign ministers discussed ways to bring the war to an early end, along with possible US-Iran talks in Islamabad.
  • Israeli attacks continue: Reuters, quoting an unnamed Israeli official, reported that Israel did not intend to slow its attacks before any possible Washington-Tehran talks. The official said the campaign against "military targets" would continue, although Israel has also struck civilian infrastructure, including schools and hospitals, across Iran.

In the Gulf

  • Saudi Arabia: The Saudi Ministry of Defence said five ballistic missiles heading toward the Eastern Province were intercepted.
  • Kuwait: The Ministry of Electricity and Water and Renewable Energy said a service building and one electric power and water desalination plant were hit in what it called "sinful Iranian aggression against the state of Kuwait." The Kuwait National Guard said it shot down five drones, according to the Kuwait News Agency.
  • Kuwait also said an Indian worker was killed in the Iranian attack.
  • Bahrain: Authorities told residents to "remain calm and head to the nearest safe place" after the third activation of alarm sirens in four hours.

In the US

  • Trump told The Financial Times that he wants to "take the oil" in Iran and said the US could seize the Iranian export hub on Kharg Island.
  • In the same interview, he claimed Iran had already experienced "regime change" through the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials in the first days of the war.

In Israel

  • Agricultural company ADAMA said its Makhteshim plant in southern Israel was hit on Sunday by either an Iranian missile or debris from one, but there were no reported injuries. The company, part of the Chinese-owned Syngenta Group, said the damage had not yet been fully assessed.
  • Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride, reporting from Amman in Jordan, said missile and drone activity increased from Sunday and continued into the early hours of Monday.

In Lebanon, Iraq and Gaza

  • Lebanon: The Israeli military kept operating in the southern suburbs of Beirut and ordered residents to leave their homes. It said it was targeting Hezbollah military sites in the area, though it did not provide evidence.
  • Iraq: A source at Baghdad International Airport told Al Jazeera that blasts were heard in the capital after repeated attacks on a US logistics support facility in the area known as the Victory Base Complex.
  • Gaza Strip: At least three Palestinians were killed and many others wounded in an Israeli air attack southeast of Gaza City, according to the Wafa news agency.

Oil, food and gas crises

  • Oil prices keep climbing: Brent crude rose 2.98 percent to $115.93 a barrel at 00:00 GMT on Monday. That put gains at more than 62 percent since February 27, according to oilprice.com, which said the increase surpassed the jump that followed Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
  • Russian oil sales expand in Southeast Asia: The US issued a 30-day waiver lifting sanctions on Russian oil, allowing other countries to keep buying amid a global supply squeeze. Companies in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam’s Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical, are purchasing Russian crude.
  • Asian markets fall again: Indonesia’s Jakarta Composite Index dropped again after a modest recovery last week. Malaysia’s FTSE Bursa Malaysia Top 100 also fell, losing about 1.5 percent from the previous session.