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07.59 GMT
Summary
In case
you’re just catching up, here’s today’s most significant developments:
President
Donald Trump has threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran does
not fully reopen the strait of Hormuz within 48 hours – threatening a new
escalation, just a day after the president spoke of “winding down” the war.
Trump’s
warning triggered a response from Iran’s military that it will target all US
“energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure” if its own
facilities are attacked.
More than
100 people were wounded on Saturday when Iranian missiles struck the cities of
Arad and Dimona in southern Israel. Officials said 84 wounded were taken to
hospitals in Arad, including 10 in serious condition, according to Agence
France-Presse, while 30 people were wounded in Dimona. The Israeli Air Force is
investigating its failure to prevent the attacks.
The
International Atomic Energy Agency said it had received no indication of damage
to the Negev nuclear research centre, which is near to Dimona.
Several
blasts could be heard from Jerusalem on Sunday, after the Israeli military
warned of incoming Iranian missiles. It also announced in a brief statement
that it was conducting strikes in Tehran.
Iranian
attacks on Gulf nations continued on Sunday morning, with Saudi Arabia’s
ministry of defence saying it had detected three missiles launched towards
Riyadh. One of the missiles was intercepted, while two fell in an uninhabited
area, it said.
A drone
attack also targeted a military base near Baghdad International Airport on
Sunday, according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency.
Sri Lanka
raised fuel prices by 25%, the second increase in two weeks, as the economic
shockwaves triggered by the war and the effective closure of the strait of
Hormuz continued to ripple across the world.
Japan
said it could consider deploying its military for minesweeping in the strait if
a ceasefire is reachedthe foreign minister, Toshimitsu Motegi, said on Sunday.
Iran has been accused of laying mines in the waterway.
The death
toll has risen to more than 1,500 people in Iran, more than 1,000 people in
Lebanon, 16 in Israel and 13 US military members, and a number of civilians on
land and sea in the Gulf region, according to Associated Press. Millions of
people in Lebanon and Iran have been displaced.
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