Live Updates: Iran and U.S. agree deal to end war taking shape, but Iran says obstacles remain - CBS News

Follow updates on the war in the Middle East for Tuesday, May 26, here. See earlier developments below.

What to know about the Iran war:

- President Trump has said a deal with Iran is "largely negotiated" and that he will either sign "a great and meaningful" pact with Tehran "or there will be no deal." Secretary of State Marco Rubio said an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could be announced as soon as Monday.

- Iran acknowledged agreement with the U.S. on many points but said the signing of a deal is not imminent. It stressed that the proposal under discussion does not include immediate concessions on the "nuclear issue."

- The Iranian regime tempered expectations Monday, arguing that "frequent changes" and contradictions by the U.S. side present "problems and obstacles" as final details are haggled over.

- The U.S. Central Command said Monday that U.S. forces launched "self-defense strikes," saying it continues to "defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire."

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it downed U.S. drone over country's airspace

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday that it had downed a U.S. drone and shot at other aircraft entering the country's airspace.

US military aircraft "entered Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf region, and air defense units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps... identified and shot down an MQ-9 drone," the Guard said in a statement on its Sepah News website.

The Guards forces "also fired upon an RQ-4 drone and an intruding F-35 fighter jet," the statement said, without specifying when the incidents took place.

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Iran's supreme leader says region's nations will "no longer serve as shields" for U.S. bases

Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Tuesday that countries in the region would no longer be "shields" for U.S. bases, in a written statement carried by state television.

"What is certain in this regard is that the hands of time will not turn backwards, and the nations and lands of the region will no longer serve as shields for American bases," said Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since he took office in March, in a message marking the Eid al-Adha holiday.

He said the United States was losing influence in the region, "moving further and further away from its former status with each passing day."

The remarks come as Iran and the United States continued exchanges aimed at reaching a deal to end the war that began on February 28 and spread across the region

U.S. intelligence shows that Khamenei is effectively holed up in an undisclosed location with little access to the outside world and is only reached by a labyrinth of couriers, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.

He was injured in initial U.S. and Israeli strikes in the Mideast war, U.S. intelligence has said.

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Israeli strike on village in eastern Lebanon kills 12, state-run news agency says

An Israeli airstrike on a village in eastern Lebanon killed 12 people, the country's state-run National News Agency said Tuesday.

The strike late Monday in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley area came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had authorized more intense strikes targeting the Hezbollah militant group across Lebanon. The Israeli military didn't comment on this particular strike but said Monday that it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in eastern Lebanon.

Rescue workers say a dozen bodies were pulled out of rubble following an intense wave of overnight strikes targeting swaths of southern and eastern Lebanon.

The intensified attacks come three days before Lebanese and Israeli military delegations are set to meet in Washington for direct talks.

Hezbollah is attacking Israeli troops in southern Lebanon and northern Israeli towns and has vowed to continue fighting until Israel stops its daily airstrikes and withdraws its troops from the country.

The Lebanese government hopes that the direct talks with Israel, opposed by Hezbollah, will lead to a ceasefire.

Over one million people in Lebanon have been displaced in the war, which was sparked by Hezbollah firing rockets into northern Israel on March 2 in solidarity with Iran.