Live updates: Trump says 'very good' Iran talks, hints at 'total resolution'

Israel announced strikes on government infrastructure in Tehran on Monday.

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Last updated: Monday, March 23, 2026 6:16PM GMT
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President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israel strikes targeting military and government sites, officials said.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes, and his son Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen to succeed him. Iran is responding with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Iran is also attempting to block some shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

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Mar 22, 2026, 5:47 AM GMT

Iranian missile hits building in Dimona, IDF investigating

Israel Fire and Rescue said a building was hit during an Iranian missile attack in Dimona in southern Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces said attempts were made to intercept the missile and that the incident is being reviewed.

This frame grab from AFPTV footage shows first responders inspecting the site of an Iranian missile strike in Dimona on March 21, 2026.
This frame grab from AFPTV footage shows first responders inspecting the site of an Iranian missile strike in Dimona on March 21, 2026.

Israeli emergency services said they treated 47 people, including a 10-year-old boy in serious condition and a woman in moderate condition, both due to shrapnel wounds.

The Negev Nuclear Research Center, which officially carries out only general scientific nuclear research, lies just outside Dimona. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was "aware of reports of an incident in the city of Dimona, Israel, involving a missile impact and has not received any indication of damage to the nuclear research center Negev."

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule

Mar 21, 2026, 5:44 PM GMT

Iran continues to fire missiles and drones at countries in the region

Iran is continuing to fire missiles and drones at countries in the region, including Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

Air defenses in Kuwait intercepted nine ballistic missiles and four drones that entered its airspace over the last 24 hours, the Kuwait Army General Staff Headquarters said in a post on X on Saturday.

The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday air defense systems engaged three ballistic missile and eight drones launched from Iran.

-ABC News' Othon Leyva

Mar 21, 2026, 4:00 PM GMT

22 countries have signed onto joint statement on Strait of Hormuz

Twenty-two countries have now signed onto a joint statement condemning Iran's attacks on shipping vessels in the Gulf and saying they are ready to join "appropriate efforts" to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

Those countries include the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czechia, Romania, Bahrain, Lithuania and Australia.

The statement does not outline any specific commitments to ensuring the waterway's safety.

Italy's Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, referencing the joint statement on X, said there is "no war mission" and there will be "no entry into Hormuz without a truce and without an extended multilateral initiative."

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule

Mar 21, 2026, 11:54 AM GMT

Iran says its Natanz nuclear facility was targeted again in US-Israeli attack

Iranian media is reporting that U.S.-Israeli strikes again targeted Iran's Natanz nuclear facility Saturday morning.

No leakage of radioactive materials has been reported in the complex and there is no danger to residents in the surrounding area, according to social media posts by the Iranian judiciary's Mizan News Agency and Iran's semiofficial, IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency.

ABC News has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces and the United States Central Command for comment.

Earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations -- confirmed that entrances to Iran's underground and previously bombed uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz had been recently damaged by the U.S.-Israeli strikes on the country.

-ABC News' Morgan Winsor