4h ago
07.00 GMT
Summary
In case
you’re just tuning in to our live coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran, here’s
a snapshot of the latest key developments. It’s now 10.30am in Tehran, 9am in
Beirut and Tel Aviv and 3am in Washington DC.
- Iran appeared to have set two tankers ablaze on fire in Iraqi waters, killing one crew member, as it stepped up strikes on oil and transport facilities around the Middle East.
- About 2,000 people have reportedly been killed in the war launched almost two weeks ago, while Unicef said more than 1,100 children had been killed or injured.
- Donald Trump said at a rally in Kentucky that the US had won the war but didn’t want to have to go back every two years. “We don’t want to leave early do we? We’ve got to finish the job.”
- Oil prices, which shot up earlier in the week to nearly $120 a barrel before retreating, jumped almost 10% back above $100 a barrel in Asian trade on Thursday amid renewed fears about supply disruption.
- A spokesperson for Iran’s military command warning in remarks directed at the US: “Get ready for oil to be $200 a barrel, because the oil price depends on regional security, which you have destabilised.”
- British prime minister Keir Starmer said the government would “step in” if companies exploited rising heating oil prices amid the Middle East conflict.
- US intelligence indicates that Iran’s leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon, the Reuters news agency reported, citing three sources. A “multitude” of intelligence reports provide “consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger” of collapse and “retains control of the Iranian public”, one of the sources said.
- Lebanon said an Israeli strike on central Beirut’s seafront killed at least seven people early on Thursday – another attack in the heart of the capital as Hezbollah launched more missiles at Israel. The Israeli military earlier said it launched a “large-scale wave of strikes” on Beirut’s densely populated suburbs after the Iran-backed militant group fired what the IDF said were “dozens” of rockets.
- The International Energy Agency ordered the largest release of government oil reserves in its history – 400m barrels – in a bid to calm concerns over supplies and dampen one of the worst fuel shocks since the 1970s. The US said it would release 172m barrels of oil from its strategic petroleum reserve.
- An attack on Iraq’s Basra port early on Thursday killed at least one person and forced authorities to halt operations at all the country’s oil terminals, officials said.
- Other reports of Iranian attacks included the targeting of fuel tanks at a facility in Bahrain’s Muharraq and drones striking oil storage facilities at Salalah port, while another container vessel reported being struck near the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait reported a drone hitting a building, injuring two, and Dubai authorities responded to a drone that fell on a building.
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