Iran He warned this Monday that he is prepared to continue the war and take it “as far as necessary”while States Joined pressures the great powers to help him reopen the narrow of Hormuzcrucial for oil transit.
The Guardians of the Revolution Iran they claimed to have attacked Tel Aviv and the airport Ben Gurion in Israelas well as military bases used by US forces in Emirates Arabs Joined y Bahrain.
According to Israeli police, missile fragments and interceptor debris fell on holy sites in Jerusalemincluding the esplanade of the Mosques and “the complex of the Holy Sepulcher”, after missile fire from Iran.
“I think at this point they have learned a good lesson and understood what kind of nation they are dealing with, one that does not hesitate to defend itself and is ready to continue the war wherever it takes it, and to take it as far as necessary,” said the minister of Relations Exteriors Iranian, Abas Araqchi.
Hours later, the Revolutionary Guards threatened to attack American companies “soon” in Half East and called employees to evacuate the facilities. They did not specify which companies.
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Crude oil prices have soared following Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and its drone launches in the Gulfin retaliation for the war unleashed by States Joined and Israel on February 28.
‘They don’t want to get involved’
The blockade of this strategic strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied gas traffic transits, pushes us to look for alternatives: Gulf States to export the crude oil and the consuming countries to supply themselves.
States Joined will begin “very soon” to escort oil tankers in this sea lane, according to the US president Donald Trumpwhich demanded that the I’LL TAKE y China send warships.
The Republican president said that the I’LL TAKE he faces a “very bad” future if he does not contribute.
The ministers of Relations Exteriors of the Union European met to talk about a possible modification of the naval mission of the bloc currently present in the Mar Rojo.
Several ministers asked for time before making a decision on said mission, which currently consists of three patrol vessels.
From London, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in turn that he is working with his allies on “a viable collective plan” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but pointed out that “it will not be and has never been considered a mission of the I’LL TAKE“.
A spokesman for the head of the German government Friedrich Merz stressed that “this war has nothing to do with I’LL TAKE“.
Japan and Australia also do not plan deployments.
At a press conference, Trump He criticized the lukewarmness of some countries.
“We have been protecting them for 40 years and they do not want to get involved,” declared the US president, who encouraged “other nations” to get involved “quickly and with great enthusiasm.”
There are exceptions to the block. A Pakistani tanker crossed it, for example, on Sunday, according to MarineTraffic data.
‘Regional chaos strategy’
The Iranians’ objective “is not to win, but to resist, that is, to make the Americans pay an exorbitant price,” he explained. David Khalfaco-founder of the Atlantic Middle East Forum research center in Paris.
According to him, “they have adopted a strategy of regional chaos calculated with low-cost means, in particular combat drones.”
Iran continues to launch attacks against US military bases and economic interests in neighboring Gulf countries, but also against civilian infrastructure such as airports, ports and oil facilities.
A drone caused a fire in a fuel tank near Dubai airport, a missile killed a civilian while he was traveling in his car in Abu Dhabi, and another drone caused a fire in an area housing oil infrastructure in the eastern emirate of Fujairah.
“It has been a difficult few weeks, hearing explosions regularly,” a witness at Dubai airport told AFP.
The explosions also reached the capital of Iraq, an AFP journalist saw.
And meanwhile, the Israeli military offensive does not let up either.
This time Israel claimed to have attacked the Iranian cities of Shiraz, in the southwest, and Tabriz, in the northwest, and assured that it still has “thousands of targets” in the country.
Despite the 17 days of internet blackout, some Iranians are trying to resume their daily lives, with some cafes and restaurants open, AFP journalists observed.
Israel launches ‘limited’ ground assault on Lebanon
On another front, Israel announced that it had launched “limited ground operations” in recent days against the pro-Iran Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon, “with the aim of improving the advanced defense area.”
Lebanon was drawn into war on March 2, when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the death of the Iranian supreme leader there Jamenei the first day of the attacks.
According to Lebanese authorities, Israeli bombings have killed 886 people since that day and displaced more than a million.
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