Trump threatens to destroy Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub if no deal reached
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“Trump threatens to destroy Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub if no deal reached”
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“US President Donald Trump threatened Monday to destroy Iran's Kharg Island, a crude oil export hub, along with oil wells and power plants unless Tehran quickly accepted a deal to end the US-Israeli war”
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“The risk of further escalation, including a potential US ground operation to seize Kharg Island, is sending tremors through financial and energy markets”
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“Destroying civilian infrastructure such as power and water facilities would be illegal under international humanitarian law and could constitute a war crime, experts say”
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“Iran has previously threatened to retaliate by targeting energy infrastructure and desalination plants in its Arab neighbours in the Gulf that host the US military”
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“An Iranian parliamentary committee voted to impose tolls on vessels through the Strait of Hormuz”
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“The tolling plan for the strait has outraged the United States, which has spoken of creating a 'coalition' to oppose it”
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“Economy ministers and central bankers from the G7 club of rich countries met in Paris to discuss the war's effects”
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“Market experts warned that any US ground operation or wider Iranian retaliation could send oil prices to levels not seen since the July 2008 commodity boom”
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“Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen fired missiles and drones at Israel”
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“The Houthi's ability to disrupt shipping through the Bab al-Mandeb strait, which accounts for roughly 12 percent of global trade, is the new key risk”
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“Israel continued to bombard Beirut's southern suburbs and the country's south, where an airstrike targeted an army checkpoint and killed a soldier”
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“The United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon reported that two of its personnel were killed Monday in 'an explosion of unknown origin'”
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“Israel confirmed it had hit the Imam Hossein University in the capital, which it said was used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps for advanced weapons research”
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“An oil refinery in the northern port city of Haifa, Israel, experienced a fire”
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“Kuwait condemned strikes on a power station and a desalination plant, which killed an Indian worker”
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“Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appealed to Donald Trump to find a resolution to the conflict”
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“Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan held talks in Islamabad to address the crisis”
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“Donald Trump claimed to be in direct contact with senior Iranian officials, though their identities remain undisclosed”
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“Iran's Foreign Ministry denied any negotiations, stating the US had only sent a request to talk via intermediaries”
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“Iranian leaders claimed Trump's offer of talks was a smokescreen for potential military action”
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“Residents of Tehran reported maintaining some normalcy, with cafes and restaurants open and no reported shortages in supermarkets or petrol stations”
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“Security measures in Tehran include checkpoints on streets around the capital”
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