Live updates: Trump says 'very good' Iran talks, hints at 'total resolution'

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a call with French President Emmanuel Macron that the Iranians are not prepared for talks to end the war, saying there needs to be assurances that there would be no more attacks on Iran.

"I emphasized [in the call with Macron] that Iran did not begin this atrocious war," Pezeshkian said, according to a readout released by Iran.

"Speaking of ending the war, is meaningless, until we ensure there will be no more attacks in our land in the future," he said.

President Donald Trump, who has called on other nations to help protect the Strait of Hormuz, told reporters on Monday that "numerous countries have told me they're on the way."

"Some are very enthusiastic about it and some aren't, some are countries we've helped for many, many years," Trump said.

The president did not name countries that he says do not want to be involved, but he said, "We're protecting you and you don't want to get involved in something that is very minor. Very few shots are going to be taken because they don't have many shots left. But they said we'd rather not to get involved."

The president went on to call Iran a "paper tiger."

"I'd like to say their names," he said of the countries, "but frankly, I don't know if they would want me to or not, because, maybe they don't want to be targeted, but I say wouldn't matter if you targeted or not, because this is a paper tiger that we're dealing with now."

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that the Iranian regime has "been literally obliterated."

"The Air Force is gone, the Navy is gone, many, many ships have been sunk. ... Anti-aircraft is decimated. Their radar is gone, and their leaders are gone," he said.

"They've been a terror for 47 years, and now, I guess, the world or the United States, with the help of Israel, is doing what should've been done many years ago," Trump said.

Trump also said the U.S. has attacked Iran's manufacturing plants for missiles and drones, noting, "We just hit three of them today."

After the Israel Defense Forces on Monday announced a "limited and targeted" ground operation in southern Lebanon, Israel's Ministry of Defense said that "hundreds of thousands of Shiite residents of South Lebanon who have been evacuated" cannot "return to their homes south of the Litani region until the safety of the residents of the north is guaranteed."

Over 831,000 Lebanese people have registered themselves as internally displaced, with 130,715 of them in shelters, according to the country's Disaster Management Unit.

Since the war began, 850 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 105 children and 66 women, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.