Paris (France) (AFP) - Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war:

- Israel hits Tehran -

Israel’s military said it launched strikes on Iranian “regime targets” early Saturday, as an AFP journalist in the capital Tehran reported hearing around 10 intense blasts and seeing a plume of black smoke.

- NATO ‘weren’t there’ for Trump -

US President Donald Trump reiterated his disappointment with NATO allies over their refusal to send military to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.

“They just weren’t there,” he said at an investment forum in Miami. “We spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO, hundreds, protecting them, and we would have always been there for them, but now, based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we?”

“Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us? They weren’t there for us.”

Trump also said the Iranians “have to open up the Strait of Trump”, immediately correcting himself to clarify he meant Hormuz but adding that “there’s no accidents with me”.

- Saudi Arabia intercepts missile -

Saudi Arabia said it “intercepted and destroyed” a missile targeting the area of the capital Riyadh.

- Lebanon clashes -

Israel’s military struck Beirut’s southern suburbs Friday, saying it was targeting Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

In south Lebanon, Hezbollah said its fighters had clashed with “Israeli enemy army forces… with light and medium weapons”.

- Man killed in Israel -

Israeli emergency responders said a man died in Tel Aviv on Friday and several others wounded across the country after the military reported missiles fired from Iran.

A Home Front Command official said a cluster bomb, which explodes mid-air and scatters bomblets across a wide area, was used in the attack.

- Hopes for Iran meeting ‘this week’ -

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said he believed Iran would hold talks with Washington “this week” to end the month-long war.

“We think there will be meetings this week, we’re certainly hopeful for it,” Witkoff told a business forum in Miami. “We have a 15-point plan on the table. We expect the Iranians to respond. It could solve it all.”

- Iran vows ‘heavy price’ for plant strikes -

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran would exact a “HEAVY price for Israeli crimes”, after attacks on two of the country’s largest steel factories and nuclear sites.

- Houthis warn they will join fight -

Yemen’s Houthi rebels warned that they would join the war if attacks on Iran continue or if more countries join the conflict.

The Houthis have in the past attacked shipping in the Red Sea in response to regional conflicts, but have so far not intervened in the latest war.

- Turkey moots meeting in Pakistan -

Talks between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey could take place this weekend on Pakistani soil, Ankara said.

Pakistan has emerged as a key mediator between Iran and the United States as the conflict drags on, with Islamabad serving as a go-between for messages passed between the two warring sides.

- UN nuclear watchdog urges ‘restraint’ -

The United Nations atomic watchdog repeated its call for “restraint” in the Middle East war after Israel struck two Iranian nuclear facilities, including a uranium processing plant.

“IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reiterates (his) call for military restraint to avoid any risk of a nuclear accident,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said on X.

- US finishing in ‘couple weeks’: Rubio -

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he expected Washington’s war objectives in Iran to be completed “in the next couple weeks”.

“When we are done with them here in the next couple weeks, they will be weaker than they’ve been in recent history,” he said after G7 talks in Paris.

- Iran has sent ‘messages’: Rubio -

Rubio also said Iran had sent “messages” to the American side, but had not responded to a US-proposed peace plan.

“We’ve had an exchange of messages and indications from the Iranian system – whatever’s left of it – about a willingness to talk about certain things,” he said.

- ‘Regime change’ unlikely: Merz -

The war is unlikely to lead to “regime change” in Iran, said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

“If that’s the goal, I don’t think you’ll achieve it. It’s mostly gone wrong” in past conflicts, he said at a forum in Frankfurt, pointing to the Afghanistan war.

- More than 300 US soldiers wounded -

More than 300 American troops have been wounded since the start of the war on February 28, US Central Command said.

A US official who asked not to be identified told AFP that 10 US soldiers remained seriously wounded.

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