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US President Donald Trump has said the US military has heavily bombed targets on Iran's Kharg Island, which handles almost all of the country’s crude exports and threatened to hit the island's oil infrastructure.

"The United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran's crown jewel, Kharg Island," Trump said on social media.

"I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider."

The United States and Israel have treaded carefully around the island, but Trump administration officials have been reported as saying that capturing Kharg was on the table as the war in the Middle East persists.

The island, located around 30 kilometres off the Iranian mainland, handles roughly 90% of Iran's crude exports, according to a recent JP Morgan note.

State media in Iran said there was no damage to any oil infrastructure on the island following the US strikes.

Iran's military warned on Saturday that it considers ports in the United Arab Emirates to be legitimate targets and urged residents to avoid them, in a statement carried by state TV.

Tehran "considers it its legitimate right to defend its national sovereignty and territory by striking American enemy missiles located in ports, docks and US military hideouts" in the UAE, the military's central operational command, Khatam Al-Anbiya, said.

The statement urged civilians to "evacuate" port areas.

Iran's cultural heritage and tourism ministry said on Saturday at least 56 museums and historic sites across the country have been damaged, as the Middle East war is in its 15th day.

In Tehran, US-Israeli strikes damaged the UNESCO-listed Golestan Palace in the early days of the conflict, local media reported.

The palace complex is one of the oldest sites in the Iranian capital and once served as the residence of the Qajar dynasty.

The ministry said Tehran has recorded the highest number of damaged monuments, with 19 suffering varying levels of harm.

The vast Naghsh-e Jahan Square, a 17th-century architectural jewel in the heart of the central Iranian city of Isfahan, has also been damaged.

In the port of Siraf, in Bushehr province, several houses were hit in the historic quarter, home to many century-old buildings.

UNESCO, the UN's culture agency, told AFP on Friday it was concerned about hundreds of historic sites in Iran, Israel and Lebanon that have been damaged or threatened by the war.

Iran’s military command threatened on Saturday to attack cities in the United Arab Emirates, claiming they were used by US forces to launch strikes on Iran’s Abu Musa and Kharg islands.

According to Iran’s state television, the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said, without providing evidence, that US forces launched attacks on the Islamic Republic from “ports, docks and hideouts within” cities in the Emirates.

It called on people to evacuate “ports, docks and locations where US forces are sheltered in UAE cities.”

The UAE said last month it would not allow attacks on Iran to be launched from its territory.

Bahrain’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Iran fired 10 drones and three missiles towards the island nation.

That brings the total number of missiles and drones fired at Bahrain during the two-week war to 124 and 203, respectively.

President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday he had thanked the Iraqi prime minister for taking measures to protect French forces, after a drone strike killed a French soldier in the Kurdistan region.

"Yesterday, I spoke with the Iraqi prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani," Macron said on X.

"I thank him for his commitment to getting to the bottom of this attack and to strengthening measures to protect our forces, who are present in Iraq to fight, alongside the Iraqis, against the scourge of terrorism."

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least four people were killed in an Israeli air strike on an apartment in the southern city of Sidon on Saturday.

It gave no other details.

The United Arab Emirates has detained 10 foreigners who allegedly posted footage on social media of missile and drone attacks on the county.

UAE General Prosecutor Hamad Al Shamsi ordered them to remain in detention over accusations of spreading disinformation, some of which included AI-generated videos of purported attacks on UAE landmarks.

He said in a statement that their acts are punishable by imprisonment of at least a year and a fine of at least 100,000 dirhams (€23,744).

US President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post on Saturday night: “The Fake News Media hates to report how well the United States Military has done against Iran, which is totally defeated and wants a deal - But not a deal that I would accept!”

It comes after Trump claimed the US had “totally obliterated” military targets on Iran's Kharg Island, which handles almost all of the country’s crude exports.

And in a phone call with Axios on Wednesday, Trump said the Iran war would end soon because there is "practically nothing left to target."

A drone was intercepted in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said in an online post.

The statement published on the platform X gave no further details.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported more Israeli strikes on Saturday morning targeting Beirut and the country’s south.

More details to follow.

The United States can provide "reliable" energy supplies to Asia-Pacific, US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on Saturday, as the Middle East war cripples the region's oil and gas flows.

Prices have surged since US-Israeli strikes on Iran killed its supreme leader and plunged the Middle East into war.

The conflict has virtually halted traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit point for oil and gas, the vast majority of which is destined for Asia.

US President Donald Trump's "energy dominance" policy aims to ensure that "we have energy to allow for prosperity at home, and we have the ability to sell energy to our friends and allies," Burgum told an event in Tokyo bringing together 17 countries from the region.

That ensures the region has a "reliable, affordable and secure" energy supply that "can't be interrupted by a terrorist regime," he said.

An Israeli strike hit an apartment building in a northern Beirut suburb that had also been targeted a day earlier, Lebanese media reported on Saturday.

Reporters on the scene saw rescue workers and damage, including a hole, in a building in the Nabaa-Burj Hammoud area, outside Iran-backed Hezbollah's strongholds in the capital's southern suburbs.

The same building had been struck on Friday without causing casualties.

Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported at least 15 explosions on Saturday with thick smoke rising over Kharg Island, earlier hit by US strikes.

It said the strikes targeted an air defence facility, a naval base, the airport control tower and an offshore oil company’s helicopter hangar, adding no oil infrastructure was damaged in the attack.

An air strike hit a house in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, early on Saturday, killing at least one person, according to a security official and another affiliated with the Iranian-backed armed groups in the country.

The strike in Baghdad’s Karrada district also wounded two people, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press.

In a statement, the Iraqi military condemned the strike as “a blatant violation of all humanitarian values and a disregard for international conventions.”

The Israeli army told people in an industrial zone in the west of Iran's northern city of Tabriz to leave on Saturday ahead of military operations.

"Urgent warning to all people located in the industrial area west of Tabriz," the Israeli military posted on X, adding it would "continue to operate in the area in the coming hours."

Internet shutdowns in Iran since US-Israeli strikes late last month triggered a war in the Middle East meant that residents were unlikely to be able to access online evacuation warnings.

A missile struck a helipad inside the US Embassy in Baghdad, two security officials said.

The projectile landed within the embassy’s boundaries after the Green Zone, the heavily fortified district in central Baghdad that houses Iraqi government institutions and foreign embassies, added the security officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they are not authorised to speak with the press.