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Foreign countries have been scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the Middle East over the past few days.

Here's a roundup:

The Australian government evacuated around 1,200 Australians from Israel on Wednesday with another 1,500 having registered for assistance.

Around 48 Austrians have left Israel or neighbouring Jordan out of the 200 who reported to the Tel Aviv embassy.

Bulgaria has evacuated 17 diplomats and their families from Iran to Azerbaijan.

More than 1,600 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from Iran, with hundreds more from Israel.

State media reports there are several thousand Chinese nationals in Iran.

Defence minister Jana Cernochova said a flight with 66 Czech nationals had left Israel and landed in Prague.

Yesterday, France said it was arranging a convoy by the end of the week from Iran to the Turkish or Armenian borders.

Berlin meanwhile has laid on charter flights that saw 345 German citizens leave the Middle East.

Operation Sindhu is what India called its efforts to get its nationals out, with more than 100 Indian students evacuated from northern Iran into Armenia on 17 June.

And the likes of Greece, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Taiwan and more have all evacuated their people.

We've brought you comments from Donald Trump this evening, who was asked about the assessment of his own intelligence agencies that they had no evidence Iran was building a nuclear weapon.

But the US president said that assessment is "wrong" (see 22.25 post).

So, how close is Iran to producing a nuclear weapon? Our US correspondent Mark Stone takes a look...

A container shipping company said it has paused calling at Israel's Haifa port.

Danish company Maersk made the decision amid ongoing back-and-forth strikes between Israel and Iran.

Haifa itself has been targeted by attacks. We've reported today on more strikes targeting the city.

Yesterday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said it had launched a missile and drone attack at military and industrial sites in Haifa and Tel Aviv.

Over in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has been visiting the intelligence directorate base today, along with a number of officials.

Israeli minister Ron Dermer, military secretary Major General Roman Gofman, the chief of the national intelligence service and the head of the intelligence directorate were also in attendance.

He said the soldiers and servicemen at the base are doing a "sacred job to give us the intelligence that wins wars".

"I cannot overstate the importance of the work that has been done and the importance of the work that is being done right now to achieve absolute victory," he added.

While speaking to reporters earlier this evening, Donald Trump was asked why he disagreed with the assessment of his own intelligence agencies, who said they had no evidence Iran was building a nuclear weapon.

"Well, then my intelligence community is wrong," he replied.

He then asked "who in the intelligence community said that?"

When told it was the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, he said "she's wrong".

Watch the moment in the video below.

By Dominic Waghorn, international affairs editor

After hours of talks, the ayatollah's chief diplomat emerged giving little away. All eyes were on Abbas Aragchi. Would he give ground in the face of Israel's fierce bombardment of his country?

Yes, but only if Israel stops that bombardment which is not going to happen. Especially after a day when two of Israel's big cities suffered direct hits from Iranian missiles.

The best that can be said for almost four hours of talks is they happened and might again. There were no breakthroughs to report, no ground shifting on either side.

The talks were flawed in concept from the beginning.

The countries meeting Aragchi here are not involved in the conflict. Israel and America were absent.

Watch: Lammy warns of 'perilous moment'

The US did send a message, via Britain's foreign secretary David Lammy. We want to talk but we're serious about getting involved with military force if you do not.

But the UK was delivering an American ultimatum and threat of force it does not itself believe to be a good idea.

Britain and its European partners want de-escalation and oppose any idea of Donald Trump and his military getting involved.

Iran is embattled, beleaguered and bombarded. But if its government is worried, its calm and collected foreign minister was showing none of it.

The Iranians know Trump may send in the bombers and bunker busters within two weeks, but do they believe him?

The president for whom they coined the acronym 'Trump Always Chickens Out' has a credibility gap.

And if he takes action that leads to a chain of events where Americans end up dying, he will be crucified for it by his own MAGA movement.

Rather than buckling to concessions with an Israeli gun to their head, might the ayatollahs just take their chances in the belief this president is all talk?

An update to bring you from the Israeli military now, which says around 15 fighter jets completed a series of strikes on western Iran in the past few hours.

Israel's Defence Forces said the strikes targeted missile launch sites.

The Israeli Air Force also says it intercepted more than 15 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drones launched from Iran towards Israel today.

Iran wants to lure the United States into an endless negotiating process which it uses to "protect itself from pressure", the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran has said.

Speaking to Kamali Melbourne, Jason BrodAG百家乐在线官网 said the move has been Iran's "playbook" for over 20 years now.

"They want to box US negotiators in by issuing all kinds of red lines," he said.

"They think they can dominate this process and manipulate Trump, who has made it very clear that a deadline means a deadline and he has red lines as well."

BrodAG百家乐在线官网 said that Trump is using "coercive diplomacy" through threats and pressuring Tehran to make a choice to either preserve its regime or have a nuclear programme.

"It can't have both," he said, adding "that's the choice that the president is trying to present to the Iranians".

Watch the full interview in the video below.

An update to bring you on Iran's internet shutdown, which has now lasted for more than 48 hours.

The shutdown has left Iranians struggling to contact their loved ones and keep up to date with the state of the conflict with Israel.

Take a look at the graph below to see the moment the shutdown hit Iranians more than two days ago.

We're just hearing from Donald Trump, who is speaking to reporters after arriving in Bedminster.

He says it is "very hard" to request that Israel stops its strikes, something Iran called on the US to do.

Trump goes on to claim that Iran "doesn't want to speak to Europe" and that the country "wants to speak to us".

He adds: "Europe is not going to be able to help at this point".

Asked about whether a decision to strike Iran is the biggest he will have to make as president, Trump says: "I wouldn't really be able to tell you that now.

"I'll tell you in about a year from now... you never know about these decisions."

The US president also tells reporters that he "might" support a ceasefire between Israel and Iran "depending on the circumstances".

He goes on to say "it's a little bit hard to get somebody to stop" in the conflict.

"Israel's doing very well in terms of war, and I think you would say that Iran is doing less well," he adds.