Morning update

Good Morning Middle East Eye readers,

If you are just joining us, here are key developments from across the region and beyond:

*US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that further US military action against Iran is unnecessary because the economic pain the Washington is inflicting on a "weakened" Tehran "is so great".

*Iran's navy and Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that fires had broken out on a total of three oil tankers that struck mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

*US President Donald Trump will discuss the Iran war with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in the first ever three-way meeting between the leaders of the United States, Russia and China at a summit in Shenzhen next week but he is not expected to discuss Ukraine war.