Morning update

* Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher has said the country must be prepared for war even as it negotiates with the United States, accusing Washington of "making promises and then breaking them". * US President Donald Trump has reiterated that the war on Iran will end “very soon”, while claiming Washington was in "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz. * The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has intercepted and destroyed an incoming drone over Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, spokesperson Major General Turki al-Maliki said in a post on X. * The Yemeni army says more than 200 Houthi fighters were killed or injured during fighting in the southwestern province of Taiz.