Welcome to our live coverage of the US and Israel’s war with Iran.
Iranian officials have vowed to “pursue and kill” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel unleashed a round of extensive missiles towards western Iran on Sunday.
“If this child-killing criminal is alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps wrote online about Netanyahu, according to the Associated Press, citing the state-run IRNA news agency.
Now in the third week of a multidimensional Middle East conflict that has seen US and Israeli forces pound Iran’s military targets, and Tehran responding with missile and drone attacks against several neighbouring states, global energy prices have soared. And concern has swelled that a lengthy blockage by Iran of the critical Strait of Hormuz could send crude prices through the roof.
The Trump administration has stressed other governments should help in a possible effort to unblock the Strait of Hormuz by escorting tankers through the narrow waterway along Iran’s coast.
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, speaking on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, said oil could soon flow through the strait if such escorts – and shipping insurance – are worked out.
“Could be day, could be a week,” Duffy said of possible escorts.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran was not interested in talks with the US, pushing back on President Donald Trump’s stance that Tehran wants a deal to end the war.
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