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Iran on Monday issued sweeping threats to deploy naval mines across the Gulf and strike power infrastructure throughout the Middle East, defying a United States ultimatum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the military confrontation with Washington and Israel entered its fourth week. The Islamic Republic showed no sign of backing down ahead…
US President Donald Trump has halted threatened strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, declaring a five-day ceasefire to pursue a “complete and total resolution” of hostilities. The reversal comes less than 24 hours after the President threatened to dismantle Iran’s electricity grid, a move that sent global markets into a tailspin. In a characteristically blunt announcement…
Iran’s energy minister, Abbas Aliabadi, has accused the United States and Israel of “terrorist and cyberattacks” that have decimated the country’s vital water and electricity infrastructure. Speaking on Sunday via the ISNA news agency, Aliabadi revealed that dozens of water treatment plants and transmission facilities have been hit, leaving critical supply networks in tatters. These…
United States President Donald Trump has threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure unless the Strait of Hormuz is reopened within 48 hours. The ultimatum, posted to Truth Social on Saturday, expires at 23:44 GMT on Monday. Trump warned that the US would target Iranian power plants, “starting with the biggest one first,” if the world’s…
Israel launched coordinated strikes on Tehran and Beirut on Tuesday while attacks in Baghdad drew Iraq further into a widening Middle East conflict that has triggered severe economic disruption across global markets and displaced millions across the region. The Iranian capital, subjected to near-daily bombardment since a joint United States-Israeli military offensive began on…
United States President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization faces a “very bad” future if European allies refuse to contribute military resources toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway effectively closed by Iran during the escalating Mideast conflict. Speaking to The Financial Times in a…
Two Indian-flagged vessels carrying liquefied petroleum gas have successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz, marking a rare instance of commercial shipping movement through the critical waterway that has been effectively closed by Tehran amid escalating conflict in the Middle East. Rajesh Kumar Sinha, special secretary of India’s ministry of ports, shipping and waterways, confirmed…
Renewed Iranian attacks on energy infrastructure have pushed Brent crude back above $101, neutralising a record release of strategic reserves by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Despite the IEA dumping 400 million barrels into the market, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has kept traders on edge. Roughly one-fifth of the world’s crude…
Tehran’s military command has issued one of its starkest warnings since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran, declaring that it will block all oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz destined for the United States, Israel and their allies, and warning that crude prices could climb to $200 per barrel. The declaration,…
Tokyo has moved ahead of its international partners. Japan will begin releasing strategic petroleum reserves as early as Monday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced on Wednesday, in a unilateral step that signals the depth of concern in the world’s fourth-largest economy over a rapidly deteriorating energy supply outlook tied to the widening conflict in…
