Live Updates: Iran rejects ‘unacceptable’ ideas as Qatari mediators say they presented new draft deal to Tehran

The Houthis called on residents of Aden International Airport in southern Yemen to evacuate immediately, saying a Saudi military cargo plane was carrying weapons there intended to kill Yemenis.

Houthi military spokesman Brig.-Gen. General Yahya Saree said in a message on

Aden is the seat of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government, and has been since the Iran-backed Houthis captured the country’s capital, Sanaa, in 2014.

A senior Iranian official denied on Wednesday that Qatar had presented Tehran with a new peace proposal, saying instead that Qatar had presented “unacceptable” ideas, the Reuters news agency reported.

Reuters reported earlier on Wednesday that Qatari mediators handed Iran a new draft deal to end the war on Sunday, citing an official briefed on the negotiations.

Dismissing the idea that a new peace proposal had been presented to them, the Iranian official speaking to the news agency said Tehran would not show any flexibility on the nuclear issue.

Qatari mediators handed Iran a new draft agreement on Sunday to end the war, the Reuters news agency reported, citing an official briefed on the negotiations.

Tehran is studying the proposal and is expected to respond by the end of the week, the agency reported on Wednesday.

The source added that before Sunday’s meeting, Tehran feared that Israel would resume its bombing of Iran this week.

The cost of the war in Iran is about $47 billion, according to an estimate from the US military’s Central Command obtained by CBS News on Tuesday.

Like previous estimates, this does not include damage to U.S. military bases in the Middle East. Most of the cost, $29 billion, is to replace spent munitions.

According to a report published According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in September, the war in Iran could cost an estimated $2 billion to $3 billion a month as long as it continues.

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Exit polls from major Israeli television networks predicted that a majority of Israelis voted against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition in Tuesday’s election, but his Likud party nevertheless emerged as the largest party among all candidates. Neither Netanyahu nor the opposition has a clear majority.

Although Netanyahu appears to have won fewer votes than his main opponent, early exit polls show the two candidates will likely struggle to put together a coalition.

Either would need to gain majority support in Israel’s 120-seat parliament, known as the Knesset, to form a government.

Israel’s two Arab parties won more seats in Parliament than in any previous election. The electoral success comes after what some Arab voters told CBS News was a difficult time for them in the country under Netanyahu’s far-right government, prompting historic turnout from the minority community.

Netanyahu and his opponents have vowed not to form a government dependent on Arab parties, arguing that it would put the country at risk if they gained enough seats to influence Israel’s engagement in its myriad conflicts. Arab citizens of Israel make up approximately 20% of the population.

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