3h ago
16.32 GMT
Summary
of today so far
Three
ships were hit by unknown projectiles in the strategic strait of Hormuz
abutting Iran. Two of the ships sustained damage, while another, which the Thai
navy identified as a Thai bulk carrier, caught fire, forcing the crew to
evacuate.
The
International Energy Agency has ordered the largest release of government oil
reserves in its history in an effort to calm the oil price shock triggered by
the US-Israeli attacks on Iran. All 32 members of the world’s energy watchdog
agreed unanimously to release about 400m barrels of emergency crude, a third of
the group’s total government stockpiles and more than double the IEA’s previous
biggest release, the IEA said.
Iran’s
military on Wednesday said any ships belonging to the United States, Israel or
their allies passing through the strategic strait of Hormuz could be targeted.
“Any vessel whose oil cargo or the vessel itself belongs to the United States,
the Zionist regime or their hostile allies will be considered legitimate
targets,” said the military’s central operational command, Khatam Al-Anbiya, in
a statement carried by state TV.
Iran’s
new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was injured in the 28 February attack
that killed six of his family members, including his father, Tehran’s
ambassador to Cyprus has confirmed. In an interview conducted at his embassy
compound in Nicosia, Alireza Salarian elaborated on the circumstances in which
Khamenei, 56, was injured, saying he was lucky to survive the strike, which
levelled the late ayatollah’s residence.
The
deadly strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran, that left at least 175
people, mostly children, dead was the result of an American missile attack, the
New York Times reports. Outdated targeting data was the cause of the tragedy,
with US bombs hitting the school complex which was previously part of a nearby
Iranian military base, sources told the New York Times.
Iran has
deployed about a dozen mines in the strait of Hormuz, two sources familiar with
the matter said, in a move likely to complicate the reopening of the narrow
waterway, an important route for shipping oil and liquefied natural gas. One
source told Reuters that the locations of most of the mines are known but
declined to say how the US planned to deal with them.
Israel
pounded Lebanon with a new wave of attacks, setting an apartment block in
central Beirut alight. Earlier strikes in southern Lebanon killed five people
in the Nabatieh district and two in the Tyre district.
US forces
have conducted airstrikes on more than 5,500 targets inside Iran, Adm Brad
Cooper, commander of US Central Command, said in a post on X. Cooper provided
an update on Wednesday on US operations in the Middle East, in which he said US
forces “continue delivering devastating combat power against the Iranian
regime”.
The
Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said on Wednesday that the joint bombing
campaign with the US against Iran would go on “as long as necessary”, insisting
the strikes had inflicted heavy casualties on Tehran’s forces. “This operation
will continue without any time limit, as long as necessary, until we achieve
all the objectives and decide the outcome of the campaign,” he said, adding
that the Iranian leadership was fleeing “like mice into tunnels”.
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