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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on May 10 that Iran's enriched uranium must be "taken out" before any peace agreement with Tehran.

"It's not over, because there's still nuclear material -- enriched uranium -- that has to be taken out of Iran. There's still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled," Netanyahu said to CBS.

"You go in and you take it out," he added, saying US President Donald Trump had a similar position. "I'm not going to talk about military means, but the president, what President Trump has said to me -- 'I want to go in there.'"

While the statement was in contrast to Trump's public position, in which he has been vocal about his willingness to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the conflict, the US president issued a threatening statement on his social media platform later on the same day.

"Iranians have been 'tapping' us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country," Trump said in his Truth Social post.

"They will be laughing no longer!" he added.

The issue of Iran's nuclear ambitions has long been central to the resolution of the conflict between Iran and the United States.

However, in its latest peace proposal sent to Tehran earlier in the week, Washington has reportedly excluded the issue, postponing negotiations over it to after peace takes effect.

US President Donald Trump said that American military operations against Iran may not be over, suggesting the United States could still target additional sites if necessary.

In an interview with journalist Sharyl Attkisson broadcast on May 10, Trump was asked whether combat operations involving Iran had concluded.

"No, I didn't say that," Trump said. "I said they were defeated, but that doesn't mean they're done. We could go in for another two weeks and hit every single target."

Trump added that US and Israeli strikes had already hit "probably 70 percent" of the intended targets.

"We have other targets that we could conceivably hit," he said. "But even if we don't, it will take years for them to rebuild."

The remarks come amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the war between Tehran and Washington.

Trump also addressed Iran's enriched uranium stockpiles, saying the United States was monitoring the sites closely.

"We have it under surveillance," he said, adding that US space-based monitoring capabilities were tracking activity around the facilities.

Iran has repeatedly rejected proposals that would require it to transfer its stockpile of enriched uranium to the United States.

On May 10, Iranian state media said that Tehran had submitted a response to the latest US proposal to end the war, but details were not announced.

Iran's response to the latest US proposal to reach an agreement to end the war has been sent to Pakistan as a mediator in the negotiations, the country's official news agency, IRNA, reported on May 10.

"According to the proposed plan, at this stage the negotiations will focus on ending the war in the region," IRNA wrote.

Iran's state media later said that Tehran's proposal focuses on ending all fronts of the war, especially Lebanon.

This comes while US President Donald Trump reiterated on May 6 that the United States plans to take control of Iran's enriched uranium.

Axios and Reuters reported on the same day that Washington and Tehran were close to a "one-page memorandum of understanding" to end the war.

Reuters reported that the memorandum did not even mention the suspension of Iran's nuclear activities or the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which has been effectively closed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps since the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran began on February 28.

The Wall Street Journal reported that in the US proposal, however, Tehran must prove it is not seeking nuclear weapons and must dismantle the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan facilities, halt underground nuclear activity, and agree to halt enrichment for 20 years.

A top Iranian official called on the United States to "surrender and make concessions," repeating past threats that Tehran has made over the course of the nearly 3-month-old war.

The comments by lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei, who is spokesman for the National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament, came on May 10, when Iran is reportedly set to respond to a US peace proposal.

"As of today, our restraint is over," he wrote on X. "The best way is to surrender and make concessions. You must get used to the new regional order."

"Any attack on our vessels will be met with a heavy and decisive response from Iran to American vessels and bases," he wrote.

It wasn't immediately clear if Rezaei's threats reflected official policy for the regime.

News reports have said Tehran was likely to respond to the new US proposal on May 10.

Qatar said a drone hit a cargo vessel off its coast sparking a fire early on May 10.

The ⁠UK Maritime Trade Operations Center, a nautical watchdog, said earlier that a bulk carrier had reported being struck by an "unknown projectile" while sailing 23 nautical miles northeast of Doha, .

Qatari officials said no injuries were reported in the incident, which sparked a fire. The ship from Abu Dhabi.

The origin of the drone was not immediately clear; in recent weeks, Iranian-launched drones have hit ships and land targets throughout the Gulf region.

Meanwhile, United Arab Emirates military officials reported two incoming drones that it said originated from Iran.

It's the fourth such drone attack on the UAE -- a key US ally in the Gulf-- in under a week.

Kuwait announced that its military had detected several drones that entered the country's airspace early on May 10, marking the first such incident since the cease-fire in the Iran war came into effect on April 13.

Earlier this week, the United Arab Emirates said its air defenses had engaged two Iranian ballistic missiles and three drones, leaving three people injured.

Kuwait had previously reported incidents of Iranian missiles and ⁠drones in its airspace during ‌the war, including a wave of Iranian drones on April 8 that targeted vital infrastructure.

The war in Iran and the wider Middle East appeared to be in a holding pattern as Washington awaited Iran's response to its latest peace proposal, while Tehran, which has not yet offered a formal reply, maintained its belligerent stance toward the United States.

Iran's hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) angrily responded to the continuation of the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, threatening that "any attack on Iranian tankers and commercial vessels will result in a heavy attack on one of the American centers in the region and enemy ships."

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The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center (UKMTO) reported on May 10 that an "unknown projectile" had hit a bulk carrier off the coast of Qatar.

In a post on X, the British monitor said the incident caused a "small fire" on the ship, which was extinguished and no casualties or environmental damage were reported.

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