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A senior Iranian official has told Reuters that Iran's initial response to the US peace proposal is that it lacks the minimum requirements for success.

The official said Iran's assessment of the proposal is that it is "one-sided and unfair" and it serves only the US and Israeli interests.

They added there is still no arrangement or plan for negotiations or talks with the US and Israel at this stage.

Türkiye and Pakistan are trying to help establish common ground between the US and Iran.

Reporting with Reuters

Good news — Qantas is ramping up flights between Australia and Europe, with extra services between Perth and Rome and from Sydney to Paris via Singapore, deploying aircraft from its US network.

The airline will progressively roll out the changes from mid-April through to late July, increasing capacity on key European routes.

The changes come as airlines cut or reroute services through major Gulf hubs such as Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi, amid safety concerns.

Read more from ABC's national tourism reporter Kristy Sexton-McGrath here: 

The Kremlin says that a report in the Financial Times that it was close to completing a shipment of drones to Iran was "lies".

"There are so many lies being spread by the media ... Do not pay attention to them," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The Financial Times, which published the report on Wednesday, cited Western intelligence officials as saying that Russia was in the process of delivering drones to Tehran and would complete the shipments by the end of March.

Reporting with AFP

The secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council says Iran is charging fees for ships to safely transit the Strait of Hormuz.

Jasem Mohamed al-Budaiwi is the first top official to accuse Iran of charging for safe passage through the strait. That's the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20 per cent of traded oil once passed.

Al-Budaiwi oversees the bloc of six Gulf Arab nations including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

He spoke during a news conference Thursday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it is hard to predict the consequences of the conflict in the Middle East.

The conflict, Putin said, was causing significant damage to international logistics, production and supply chains while putting intense pressure on hydrocarbon, metals and fertiliser companies.

"The consequences of the conflict in the Middle East are still difficult to accurately predict," Putin told business leaders in Moscow.

"It seems to me that those who are involved in the conflict cannot predict anything themselves, but for us it is even more difficult.

"However, there are already estimates that they can be compared with the coronavirus epidemic."

Reporting with Reuters

Along with Alireza Tangsiri, Israel says it has also killed the head of the Navy's Intelligence Division, Hanam Rezaei.

Rezaei served as head of that division for several years and according to Israel "he engaged in intelligence gathering on regional countries".

"The elimination of the Navy's top command joins dozens of commanders of the Iranian terror regime who have been eliminated throughout the operation, constituting another severe blow to the Revolutionary Guards' command and control systems," the Israel Defence Force said in a statement.

As the war on Iran inches close to a month of fighting, we've rounded up some photos taken from the ground. 

All photos are taken by photographers from The Associated Press in the fourth week of the war.

Here, children play beside a fragment of an Iranian ballistic missile that landed in a schoolyard in the Israeli settlement of Peduel in the West Bank. 

Here, members of the displaced Abd el-Hajj family, and two of their cousins, right, who fled Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, sit inside a tent used as a shelter in Beirut in Lebanon. 

In this photo, Israeli soldiers secure the site where an Iranian missile wreckage landed in the West Bank village of Kifl Haris. 

In this one, another man who fled Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon smokes in his van with his family outside a tent used as a shelter in Beirut.

Alireza Tangsiri has been the commander of the navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) since his appointment to the role in 2018.

Today, Israel said it had killed him, along with other naval officials, in an air strike.

Iran has not confirmed his death.

Prior to his promotion to commander, Tangsiri served as deputy commander from 2010.

Tangsiri has frequently shared his thoughts and opinions against the US and Israel and is widely known to be a vocal commander.

He has a social media account on X that has been making posts throughout the current war in the Middle East.

He most recently posted yesterday, March 25.

In a post on March 11, Tangsiri said "no vessel associated with the aggressors against Iran has the right to pass through Strait of Hormuz".

"If you have any doubt, come closer and test it," the post ended.

The US Treasury has had Tangsiri on its sanction list since 2019 after Iran shot down a US surveillance drone.

There is currently no issue with natural gas supply to the European Union as a result of global energy market disruption amid the Iran war, European Commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen says.

The Commission held a meeting with the 27 member states to discuss the situation earlier today, Ms Itkonen told a news briefing.

Reporting with Reuters