Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said the air campaign could make negotiations a moot point if all potential leaders of Iran are killed and ‌the Iranian military is destroyed.

“At some point, I don’t think there will be anybody left maybe to say ‘We surrender,’” Trump said.

Apology causes stir

Israel and Iran traded numerous attacks on Saturday as the US-Israeli war against Iran entered a second week.

Iran’s president apologised to neighbouring states for its attacks on US facilities in those countries, in an attempt to cool anger across the Gulf, but stirred criticism from hardliners at home.

“I personally apologise to neighbouring countries that were affected by Iran’s actions,” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, urging them not to ​join US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

He dismissed Trump’s demand for the Islamic Republic’s unconditional surrender as “a dream,” but said its temporary leadership council had agreed to suspend attacks on nearby states unless strikes on Iran originated from their territory.

Amid possible ​divisions within Iran’s leadership over Pezeshkian’s remarks, radical Israeli regime leader Benjamin Netanyahu, in a televised address, said any members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who laid down their ⁠arms would be unharmed.

Ali Larijani, Iran’s secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, said on state television there was no rift among Iranian officials over its handling of the war.

In Oslo, the US embassy was hit by an explosion early ​on Sunday, causing minor damage but no injuries, Norwegian police said.

Smoke was seen rising from the area around the embassy compound, eyewitnesses told Norwegian daily Verdens Gang. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast or who was ​involved.

The US State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Saudi Arabia has told Tehran that continued Iranian attacks on the kingdom and its energy sector could push Riyadh to respond in kind, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Saudi Arabia foiled a drone attack on Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter, the Saudi defence ministry said early on Sunday. No injuries were reported.

Pezeshkian’s comments caused a political stir in Iran, prompting his office to reiterate that Iran’s military would respond firmly to attacks from US bases in the region.

Hours later, the ​president repeated his statement on social media but left out the apology from his speech that had angered certain quarters, including the powerful Revolutionary Guards.

The judiciary chief, Mohseni-Ejei, a member of the three-man council temporarily holding the powers of ​the supreme leader, said the territory of some regional countries was being used for attacks against Iran and retaliatory strikes would continue.

Hours after Pezeshkian’s announcement, the Revolutionary Guards said their drones struck a US air combat centre near Abu Dhabi, capital of the United ‌Arab Emirates. Reuters ⁠could not independently verify that report.

Israel warns Lebanon

The Kuwaiti army said on Saturday that fuel storage tanks belonging to Kuwait International Airport were targeted in a drone attack.

In Iran, local news agencies, citing an Iranian Oil Ministry source, said its fuel depots were hit by strikes in three areas, including Karaj, west of Tehran.

The Revolutionary Guards also targeted US forces at a base in Bahrain, Iranian state media said, and blasts were heard in Doha.

Tehran has responded to the US-Israeli war on Iran by hitting Israel and Gulf Arab states hosting US military installations.

Israel has launched fresh attacks in Lebanon after the Iran-aligned militia Hezbollah fired across the border.

With the conflict spreading, Israel warned Lebanon of a “very heavy ​price” if it did not rein in Iran-allied Hezbollah ​militants, as it pounded the group’s strongholds with airstrikes ⁠and mounted a deadly airborne raid in the east.

On Saturday morning, more buildings in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut had been reduced to mounds of smoking rubble, dust and tangled wires, Reuters video showed.

The death toll from Israel’s attacks on Lebanon since Monday rose to around 300, after at least four people were killed when an Israeli strike ​hit an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry said.

It was the first strike to hit the heart of the capital since ​Israel-Hezbollah hostilities resumed last week.

The US-Israeli ⁠attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands, according to Iran’s UN ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani.

Huge explosions were heard in parts of Tehran, state media reported, while Israel said it had struck Iranian missile sites and command centres.

Iranian attacks have killed 10 people in Israel. At least six US service members have been killed. Their remains arrived on Saturday at an Air Force base in Delaware.

Iran’s apparent strategy of maximum chaos has driven up the costs of the conflict by raising energy prices ⁠and hurting global ​business and logistics links.

Kuwait’s national oil company began cutting output on Saturday, adding to earlier oil and gas cuts from Iraq and Qatar.

The war ​has roiled global markets and oil prices have hit multi-year highs with the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut.

Iranian clerics have called for the swift selection of a new supreme leader, Iranian media reported on Saturday, with meetings occurring as soon as Sunday.