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Rising petrol, energy bills, food shop and mortgages- how the Iran war trickles down into your wallet

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – An official at the Association of Shipping and Related Services has said, “Under the international conventions, the trade and commercial ports should be immunized from any aggression.”

Energy prices have soared as Iranian strikes and reports of mines prevent ships from transiting the chokepoint Middle East crisis – live updates More than 1,000 cargo ships, mainly oil and gas tankers, have been blocked from transiting the strait of Hormuz by the Israeli-US war against Iran after Tehran closed the key maritime passage. Officials in the Trump administration have suggested efforts to get ships moving again, but amid continued Iranian strikes on tankers, and reports that Iran has started mining the narrow waterway, the mooted naval escorts have failed to materialise – even as energy prices have soared. Continue reading...

The strategy used to depopulate Gaza - displacement, destruction and fragmentation - is now being deployed on Lebanon.

EU and UK denounce Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in West Bank Shraddha Joshi on Fri, 03/13/2026 - 12:03 At least six Palestinians in the West Bank have been murdered by Israeli settlers since the start of the war on Iran A Palestinian flag is placed at the site where Israeli settlers attacked and killed three Palestinians in Abu Falah on 8 March (Zain Jaafar/AFP) Off The European Union and United Kingdom have issued statements calling for an end to Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank this week.  “We are appalled by the killing of five Palestinians in incidents of settler violence over the past week,” the British Consulate General in Jerusalem said in a statement posted on X. It added that “Israeli security forces have described such violence as ‘unacceptable’” and called on them to follow with “swift, thorough investigations and accountability for those responsible”.  The EU issued similar comments on Tuesday, calling on Israeli authorities to take "immediate and effective action" and urging Israel to "abide by its obligations under international law to protect the Palestinian population in the occupied territory". These diplomatic statements come after a sharp escalation in attacks and murders of Palestinians across the West Bank by Israeli settlers under the cover of Israel’s war on Iran. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); On Thursday, Middle East Eye reported that at least six Palestinians had been killed in settler attacks in the past week. Last Sunday, a group of 100 masked Israeli settlers descended on the town of Abu Falah in an attempt to displace the Palestinian residents. The attackers shot and killed Fara Hamayel, 57, and Thaer Hamayel, 30, and wounded several others, MEE reported. On Friday, Wafa news agency reported that settlers stormed Hamza al-Fouqa in the Jordan Valley, attacking Palestinians and stealing 300 head of cattle, and paved a new road to escalate settlement activity in Northeast Ramallah.  Explained: The Israeli measures imposing de facto annexation in the West Bank Read More » Settler outposts in the West Bank are illegal under international law, as they violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids occupying powers from transferring members of their population to the land they occupy. Palestinian human rights organisations have revealed that settler violence has increased by 25 percent since the onset of the war on Iran. On Thursday, 21 British and international civil society organisations called on the UK government to urgently “ban imports of any item which is wholly or partially produced in Israel’s illegal settlements”. The letter followed a demand by 119 British MPs to increase sanctions on Israel and ban all trade with illegal settlements. According to the civil society letter, the UK remains a primary destination for many settlement products, which is “crucial for the economic viability of the settlements” and “drives further settlement expansion”. Israel's genocide in Gaza News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – Leader’s Aide to the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution Mohammad Mokhber has said massive participation of people will foil enemies’ conspiracies waged against Iranian people.

No evidence Iran has mined Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon's Hegseth says There is no clear evidence that Iran has placed mines in the Strait of Hormuz, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told a news briefing on Friday. The assessment by Hegseth contrasts with news reports earlier this week suggesting Iran had deployed about a dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil supply travels. Asked about the possibility of mines in the Strait, Hegseth said: "We've heard them talk about it just like you've reported recklessly and wildly about it. But... we have no clear evidence of that." Hegseth's comments come as the United States and other countries face spiking oil and gas prices, with the US-Israel war on Iran entering its 14th day, and oil prices hovering near $100 a barrel on Friday.

The Latest: US hits pro-government demonstration in Iran as war threatens global economy  Newsday

Israel has closed the Rafah border crossing and Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have continued.

Echoes of Iraq: Mainstream media ‘deja vu’ over framing of the war on Iran “Why we should go to war” ran the headline of a Guardian article in February 2003 by the commentator Julie Burchill.  In it, she explained to the Guardian’s liberal readers why a pro-war attitude in the run-up to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s invasion of Iraq should be welcomed.  “If you really think it's better for more people to die over decades under a tyrannical regime than for fewer people to die during a brief attack by an outside power, you're really weird and nationalistic and not any sort of socialist that I recognise,” wrote Burchill. Another article published in April 2003, after the invasion started, criticised anti-war “doomsters”, claiming “the people of Iraq have been unchained from appalling torture and tyranny” as a result of US-UK action. Read more: Echoes of Iraq: Mainstream media ‘deja vu’ over framing of the war on Iran British newspaper headlines in the aftermath of the Israeli-US attack on Iran (Paul Ellis/AFP)

Opinion | Mojtaba's First Message Makes It Clear: Iran Won't Give An Easy 'Exit' To Trump  NDTV

Israeli jets drop anti-Hezbollah leaflets over Beirut, threatening Lebanon with same fate as Gaza Israeli jets have dropped leaflets over Lebanon's Beirut calling on Lebanese people to disarm Hezbollah and contact Israeli intelligence if they have information about the group, according to L'Orient Today. "If you want to be part of real change and contribute to the prosperity and defence of your country, we are here to listen," the leaflets said, which include the logo of the military's intelligence directorate. Another leaflet threatened that Lebanon could face destruction similar to Gaza. 🚨 The leaflets stated: "For everyone's sake, it's better if these pages are not filled with words. https://t.co/n6QnwpjNe2 pic.twitter.com/HywiVJrs9O March 13, 2026

A missile attack that hit a Palestinian community in northern Israel has injured dozens of people.

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – The chairman of the Central Headquarters of Global Quds Day based in Tehran said that Quds Day rallies carry special and clear meaning to the American and the Zionists.

Video | Iranian President & FM Attend Pro-Palestine Rally as Iran-Israel War Enters Day 14  NDTV

US, Israel hit more than 15,000 targets in Iran war, says Pentagon The United States and Israel have struck more than 15,000 targets since the start of the Iran war late last month, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Friday. "Between our air force and that of the Israelis, over 15,000 enemy targets have been struck. That's well over 1,000 a day," Hegseth told a news conference, adding that Friday would mark the highest volume of strikes yet in the war.

Dubai has been hit by a series of drones since the US-Israeli war on Iran began - now international

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – Friday Prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami says that the region will not see peace and tranquility until the Zionist regime is annihilated.

Israeli evacuation orders affect 14 percent of Lebanon, NGO says Over an eighth of Lebanon's territory is under Israel's forced evacuation orders, an aid group said on Friday, while the United Nations peacekeeping mission said Israeli ground troops were making incursions and erecting roadblocks. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said Israel's evacuation orders for southern Lebanon and parts of Beirut now covered about 1,470 square kilometres, or about 14 percent of the country. "Israel’s mass evacuation orders have expanded to broad geographic directives, often demanding immediate movement, creating panic and fear across communities that strikes are imminent - even when they are not," said Maureen Philippon, NRC country director in Lebanon. Israeli strikes on Lebanon since 2 March killed almost 700 people, and displaced more than 800,000 in Lebanon. An injured woman is helped away from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted a neighbourhood in the town of Mieh Mieh, 5km east of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on 13 March 2026 (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

An engineer crouches under a park bench as fighter jets roar overhead