Iran threatens Gulf oil infrastructure as United States escalates military strikes

Israel launches strikes on Iran with no sign of diplomatic breakthrough

Israel launched a new wave of strikes on Iran on Friday after US President Donald Trump claimed talks on ending the war were going well and gave Tehran more time to open the Strait of Hormuz, though there have been no signs of Iran backing down. With stock markets reeling and economic fallout from the war extending far beyond the Middle East, Trump is under growing pressure to end Iran’s chokehold on the strait, a strategic waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil is usually...

US-Israel war on Iran: What’s happening on day 28 of attacks?

Trump has delayed attacks on Iran's energy facilities by 10 days, claiming talks are going well - though Iran disagrees.

Iran war live: Trump delays attacks on Iranian energy sector by 10 days

Iranian missiles, drones target Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan as Trump says Iran has 'chance to make a deal'.

Middle East crisis live: Iran launches strikes on US bases in Gulf; oil prices drop after Trump ‘peace plan’ report

Iran Guards said they fired missiles at Israel and US forces in bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain; crude oil prices fall sharply in early trading Trump’s rehashed 15-point Iran plan unlikely to appease Tehran Following on from earlier reports, Lebanese state media said the latest round of Israeli strikes had now killed nine people. Earlier on Wednesday, Lebanon’s official National News Agency, said strikes had killed four people in the town of Adloun and two people in a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Sidon area. The one claiming to be a global superpower would have already gotten out of this mess if it could. Don’t dress up your defeat as an agreement. Your era of empty promises has come to an end. Have your internal conflicts reached the point where you are negotiating with yourselves? Continue reading...

Iran-Israel war LIVE: Iran Guards have fired missiles at Israel, Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, state TV reports

U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a peace plan to Iran; Tehran announced that it will let “non-hostile” oil vessels go through the Strait of Hormuz

Iran targets Israel and Gulf states after denying Trump claim of talks

A missile slammed into a street in central Tel Aviv as Iran kept up its barrages targeting Israel and Gulf Arab states on Tuesday, even as US President Donald Trump said the United States was in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war. Trump also delayed a deadline for Iran to open the strategic Strait of Hormuz for shipping or see its power stations targeted by air strikes, briefly driving down oil prices and boosting stocks. The delay offered a reprieve after the US and Iran traded...

Iran-Israel war LIVE: Trump says Iran 'wants to make a deal', but Islamic Republic denies any talks

Oil prices fell and stock markets jumped as observers scrambled to interpret Trump's statements despite the Iranian denial

Israel launches new wave of attacks on Tehran and Iran threatens to start hitting Gulf power plants

Iran-Israel war LIVE: Iran threatens to attack Gulf electrical plants powering U.S. bases

Israel Prime Mnister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Israel and the U.S. were well on their way to achieving their war goals

Iran says it will ‘irreversibly destroy’ Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites

Energy and oil sites across region would become ‘legitimate targets’, Tehran says Middle East crisis live – latest updates Tehran has said it will “irreversibly destroy” essential infrastructure across the Middle East if the US attacks its energy sites, hours after Donald Trump threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants unless the strait of Hormuz was opened within two days. As Iranian missiles struck two southern Israeli cities overnight, injuring dozens of people and shattering apartment buildings, the developments signalled a dangerous potential escalation of the war in the Middle East, which is now in its fourth week. Continue reading...