Oil edged up while Asian stocks fluctuated today as investors assess a US plan for the “economic asphyxiation” of Iran, while tech firms struggled following another down day on Wall Street and ahead of earnings from chip titan Nvidia. With the war against Tehran now in its sixth month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the […]
•Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Iran has said reopening the Strait of Hormus depends on the United States after President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted Tehran is keen for a deal. Iran has denied the deal and said it will instead make arrangements with its neighbour across the strait, Oman. According to state news agency [&helli...
•US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come as soon as today but warned Iran it would get “hit very hard” if negotiations fell through. Transit of the waterway, a key conduit for global oil and gas supplies, has been a sticking point in […]
Iran today has executed two men convicted of spying for Israel, the judiciary said, the latest in a wave of hangings over alleged espionage. Since the start of the war with Israel and the United States in February, Tehran has ramped up executions, with many of the convicts accused of spying for Israeli intelligence, reports […]
Oil prices tumbled today in early Asia trade after US President Donald Trump announced fresh talks with Iran to end the Middle East war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The war, which began in late February when the United States and Israel attacked Iran, has caused oil prices to swing sharply as it effectively […]
•Aerial view of boats anchored off Oman’s northern Musandam Peninsula near the Strait of Hormuz Iran yesterday said it was nearing a deal with Oman over a new route through the Strait of Hormuz, hours after the US called off major strikes to allow for diplomacy. US President Donald Trump said yesterday that his country […]
•Smoke rising from the site of an explosion carried out by the Israeli military, in the village of Kfar Tibnit Iran and the United States held their fire yesterday, handing Gulf shipping and the oil industry a respite from missile strikes as Donald Trump’s UN envoy said the president was “giving talks some space”. Iran […]
•Trump US President Donald Trump warned China and Russia today against selling weapons to Iran — while saying he believed assurances from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin that they were not yet doing so. “Therefore, two major Countries that people speak of often in terms of Iran are, in my opinion, not participating,” Trump said […]...
•US President Donald Trump President Donald Trump today pledged that the United States would bomb Iranian civil infrastructure every time Tehran fires at ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, […]
•A heavily-damaged bridge hit by a US strike in southern Iran The United States expanded the scope of its strikes on Iran today, targeting provinces around the country, including a city hosting a nuclear power plant, as the Islamic Republic kept up its attacks in the region. The Middle East war resumed after a weeks-long […]
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