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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

This is Owen Bennett Jones, live from London.

And as you can imagine, there's been a lot going on in Iran today, Israel and the Gulf as well.

And we'll be covering all that very shortly.

Just to say later in the program, we have an exclusive interview with the Ugandan opposition leader Bobby Wine,

who's just managed to get out of the country, having been in hiding from the security forces for the last two months.

I can confirm that I'm outside of Uganda,

and I'm out of danger, at least out of reach of the Ugandan regime.

I cannot reveal where I am now, but I will be able to reveal in the coming hours.

So that's the Ugandan politician and former pop star Bobby Wine coming up in about

half an hour's time, that exclusive interview. But first of all, Iran, where the war grinds on.

There have been more attacks on Iran. Iran has sent missiles into Israel. More attacks on Gulf

countries, too. Overnight, the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were reportedly targeted.

President Trump has said he's not ready to make a deal with Iran because the terms aren't good

enough yet, but Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arachi, has been speaking with Margaret Brennan

on the US network CBS News. She asked him first if Iran had actually asked for a ceasefire.

No, we never asked for a ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiation.

We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes, and this is what we have done so far, and we continue to do that

until President Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war with no victory. And, you know, there are, you know, people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun.

This is what he has said.

Have fun?

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