U.S. President Donald Trump says countries upset by high fuel prices should โgo get your own oilโ as Iran maintains its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump expressed his frustration toward allies that have been unwilling to help the U.S. reopen the critical passageway in a social media post.
โGo get your own oil,โ Trump wrote. He also said they should buy from the U.S. because โwe have plenty.โ
His comments in a social media post on Tuesday came as average U.S. gas prices shot past US$4 a gallon.
U.S. strikes hit a city Tuesday that is home to one of Iranโs main nuclear sites, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran attacked a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
The attacks were testament to the intensity of the war more than a month after the U.S. and Israel launched their first strikes. The conflict has left more than 3,000 dead and caused major disruptions to the worldโs supply of oil and natural gas. On Tuesday, the average price of gasoline in the U.S. shot past US$4 a gallon โ just another sign of the warโs effects far beyond the Middle East.
Trump, who has vacillated between insisting there is progress in diplomatic talks with Iran and threatening to widen the war, shared footage of the attack on Isfahan. The central city is home to one of three nuclear enrichment sites attacked by the U.S. in a 12-day war in June, and analysts believe much of Iranโs highly enriched uranium is likely stored there.
The war is roiling oil market
Iranโs stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway leading out of Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the worldโs oil is transported during peacetime, has driven up global oil prices, as have Tehranโs attacks on regional energy infrastructure. That has shaken stock markets around the world and pushed up the cost of many basic goods.
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Spot prices of Brent crude, the international standard, hovered around US$106 a barrel Tuesday, up more than 45 per cent since the war started Feb. 28.
Trump warned this week that if a ceasefire is not reached โshortly,โ and if the strait is not reopened, the U.S. would broaden its offensive, including by attacking the Kharg Island oil export hub and possibly desalination plants.
Israel, US launch a new wave of strikes
Israel and the U.S. launched a wave of strikes on Iran, hitting Tehran in the early morning.
The video shared by Trump appeared to show a massive attack on Isfahan, and NASA fire-tracking satellites suggest explosions happened in a mountainous region on the cityโs southern edge. Iran has not confirmed the attack.
A satellite image taken just before the June war suggests Tehran transferred a truckload of highly enriched uranium to a nuclear facility about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Tuesdayโs strikes.
Analysts believe the truck โ which the image showed going into a tunnel loaded with 18 blue containers โ likely carried most or all of Iranโs stockpile of uranium enriched up to 60 per cent purity. Thatโs a short, technical step to weapons-grade levels.
An Iranian drone hit a Kuwaiti oil tanker in waters off the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai, sparking a blaze that was later put out, the Dubai Media Office said. Authorities said no oil spill resulted.
Four people were also wounded when debris from an intercepted drone fell into a residential area, and loud explosions could be heard later from another attack on Dubai.
Air raid sirens sounded in Bahrain, while Saudi Arabia said it intercepted three ballistic missiles launched toward its capital. Loud explosions were also heard in Israel not long after the military warned of an incoming missile barrage from Iran.
Gulf allies of the United States that have been hit hard have urged Trump to continue the conflict until Iranโs military capabilities are destroyed, according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials.
In response to that growing anger, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi insisted Tuesday that Tehran is only targeting U.S. forces in the region.
โOur operations are aimed at enemy aggressors who have no respect for Arabs or Iranians, nor can provide any security,โ Araghchi wrote on X.
Peacekeepers killed in Lebanon
The U.N. Security Council planned to convene an emergency session Tuesday after officials said three peacekeepers in southern Lebanon had been killed in less than 24 hours during Israelโs invasion there.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country, where Israel is battling the Iran-backed Hezbollah, did not say who was responsible for the deaths.
In Iran, authorities say more than 1,900 people have been killed, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel.
Two dozen people have died in Gulf states and the occupied West Bank. In Lebanon, officials said more than 1,200 people have been killed, and more than 1 million displaced.
Ten Israeli soldiers have died in Lebanon, including the four announced Tuesday, while 13 U.S. service members have been killed.
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