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The Tehran regime has weaponised geography in retaliation for the attacks by the US and Israel Global oil markets have recorded some of the biggest price swings in history this week after the US-Israeli war with Iran throttled the flow of Middle Eastern crude through the strait of Hormuz. The narrow waterway south of Iran is one of the world’s most important trade arteries, through which a fifth of global oil and seaborne gas is shipped from production facilities and refineries in the Gulf to buyers around the world. Continue reading...

War In Iran Is Creating a Fertilizer Crisis Like Never Before  Bloomberg

How the Iran war’s nearly $1 billion-a-day price tag is deepening America’s debt crisis  Fortune

How Trump's timeline for the war on Iran keeps shifting, and why that matters  CBC

Opinion | 'Gulf Allies Not Consulted': Will Middle East Now Turn Against Trump-Israel?  NDTV

Seven agreed to humanitarian visas to stay permanently, but one later reverses course and contacts the Iranian embassy to arrange her return The post After some accept asylum, most of Iran women’s soccer team declines and leaves Australia appeared first on The Times of Israel.

What to know about the Strait of Hormuz, a key passageway essential for global energy supply  San Antonio Express-News

Iran Israel conflict: North Korea endorses Iran’s new leader as missile test signals wider war shadows  The Economic Times

Iran Israel War Live updates on US strikes, Kuwait drones, Hormuz crisis  Deccan Herald

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building in central Beirut.

Video released by US shows strikes on Iranian vessels near Strait of Hormuz

Two drones come down in vicinity of Dubai airport, injuring four people Two drones came down in the vicinity of Dubai airport on Wednesday, injuring four people, Dubai's media office said. Air traffic is operating as normal, it added.

Millions of barrels of oil and gas are being held up as war breaks out over the major shipping route

CNBC Daily Open: Oil jitters persist as U.S. targets Iranian ships near Strait of Hormuz  CNBC

US President Donald Trump has said Iran are "welcome" to take part in this summer's World Cup despite the countries being at war, according to Fifa president Gianni Infantino.

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Turkey caught in the middle as Iran war escalates  DW.com

SYDNEY, March 11 (Reuters) - Australia has closed its embassies in Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv as well as its consulate in Dubai, the foreign minister said on Wednesday, amid fears the conflict in the Middle East could intensify.

Ship on fire in Strait of Hormuz as Israel renews strikes on Iran and Lebanon | ITV News  ITVX