Nathan Hager

Bloomberg's head of Iran coverage, Golnar Motavalli, says both sides may be talking past each other.

Bloomberg's Gulnar Maltavali joined Bloomberg surveillance from London.

A source says Iran is expected to send a response through Pakistan in the next two days.

In the meantime, Israel says it has killed a Hezbollah commander in its first strike near Lebanon's capital since a ceasefire went into effect there last month.

Iran had threatened to pull out of its truce with the U.S.

if Israeli attacks in Lebanon continued.

Iran's president, Massoud Poseshkin, says he met recently with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Hamani for about...

Two and a half hours.

That's according to the state-run Islamic Republic news agency.

Khamenei was injured in the initial Israeli strike that started the war and killed his father.

And Bloomberg News has learned the Trump administration is studying using oil under land at military bases and other Pentagon sites to help refill its depleted emergency reserves.

A source tells us no decision's been made on the possible initiative, but it comes as the Trump administration has promised to find innovative ways to refill supplies.

the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the Middle East situation today with Pope Leo XIV.

The State Department says the Vatican audience lasted about two and a half hours and reflected the, quote, enduring partnership between the U.S.

and the Vatican.

Bloomberg's Richard Bravo reports tensions have been building between the president and the pontiff over the war.

Bloomberg's Richard Bravo reporting from Brussels.

Rubio is a practicing Catholic.

He meets tomorrow with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney.