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Iran war live: Israel running low on missile interceptors  Middle East Eye

Iranian FM says strikes on Gulf in response to US-Israeli strikes on Iran Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said Iran's missile and drone strikes on the Gulf were responses to US forces using the territory of its regional allies.  Speaking to CBS News, Aragchi framed the strikes as a direct response to US military personnel using Gulf nations to launch strikes onto Iran.  “These are the countries that have given their soil to American forces to attack us,” Araghchi said. “So what can we do? We just sit and watch that American forces are attacking us from their soil? … We are only targeting American assets, American installations and American military bases. Everything belongs to Americans.” Earlier this week, Aragchi joined other ministerial colleagues at the annual Al-Quds rally, as a show of defiance, after US War Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed Iran's leadership were hiding like "rats".  Araghchi added that Iranian forces have provided safe passage for vessels from other nations and the Strait of Hormuz is not completely closed but insecurity arises from US aggression. “We provide them security to pass because we have not closed this strait. They are not coming themselves because of the insecurity that is there, because of the aggression by the US.” Aragchi added that the Iranians had given up on negotiations and that they "don’t see any reason why we should talk with Americans, because we were talking with them when they decided to attack us, and that was for the second time. "This is a war of choice by President Trump and the United States, and we are going to continue our self-defence."

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Iran war rages with no end in sight as gas prices soar  MS NOW

Oil could pass 2008 record of $147.50 a barrel as damage and field closures risk compounding supply shock caused by Iran war About 20 miles off the coast of Iran lies the source of the petrostate’s economic lifeblood and the latest target of US military aggression: an 8 sq mile coral island through which nine in every 10 barrels of Iranian crude passes each day. The US president’s decision to launch a weekend attack on Kharg Island, the home of Iran’s processing hub and the heart of its economy, is an unsurprising counterstrike to the Iranian regime’s ongoing chokehold on the oil market’s trade artery. Continue reading...

Lebanon Health Ministry: Israeli strike kill at least 850 people since start of war The Lebanese Health Ministry said Israeli strikes has killed at least 850 people and wounded a further 2,105 since March.

Hegseth's Iran war talk conflicts with law forbidding "no quarter" ban, experts say  Axios

US Energy Secretary expects war with Iran to 'end in next few weeks' US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has told US media that he expects the war with Iran to end within the "next few weeks." Speaking to ABC News, Wright said: "I think that this conflict will certainly come to the end in the next few weeks – could be sooner than that. But the conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks, and we’ll see a rebound in (energy) supplies and a pushing down in prices after that."

‘War leader’ Trump fixates on trivial matters as Iran death toll mounts  The Guardian

Egypt eyed as mediator as Israel plans weeks of war with Iran  شفق نيوز

Trump once again blames Ukraine president for prolonging war by refusing to accept Russia’s demands

My family fled Iran in 1979 as members of a religious minority. Now we watch from the safety of Australia as our community is persecuted again As a second-generation Iranian migrant, I’ve been suffocated by helplessness over the past two months as my spiritual brothers and sisters in Iran fight for a sense of freedom in their home country. Now, as war hits the region, millions of Iranians living around the world watch with trepidation, praying for peace in the face of yet another harrowing conflict. My family fled just before the Iranian revolution in 1979. We are Baháʼís – members of the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran. Bahá’ís have been persecuted since the faith’s inception in the mid-19th century, and in times of unrest, things get worse. We can only imagine what is in store. Continue reading...

What do the first two weeks of the war on Iran portend for the future?  Al Jazeera

Defence analyst says torpedo strike is a ‘humiliation’ for Modi’s government that disregarded a US defence partner Middle East crisis – live updates The distress call came in to Sri Lanka’s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre just after 5am. The ship in trouble, they determined, was well within Sri Lanka’s obligation for rescue, being just over 19 nautical miles off the coast of the southern city of Galle. The navy swiftly mobilised and, by 6am, the first search and rescue boat was on its way, another soon close behind. It was hard to see through the thick morning mist but officers on board kept their eyes peeled for a ship in the distance. Continue reading...

Bills that would weaken the role of attorney general, overhaul the media sector, draw ire from the opposition The post Coalition advancing controversial legislation amid war with Iran appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Iran begins 54th missile wave against Israel under True Promise 4  شفق نيوز

How might the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran fail?  Mondoweiss

UAE intercepts four ballistic missiles, six drones The UAE’s Ministry of Defence says it has intercepted several ballistic missiles and drones launched from Iran. “UAE air defences intercept 4 ballistic missiles and 6 drones,” it said in a statement shared on social media. It added that air defences have “intercepted 298 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles, and 1,606 drones” since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran on February 28. In the UAE, at least six people have been killed and 142 injured in Iranian attacks during the war.

War with U.S., Israel to end when Iran ‘certain’ it cannot be repeated, says Araghchi  The Hindu