President Donald Trump expressed frustration Tuesday with allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort, telling them to "go get your own oil" as the conflict with Iran and its closure of the Strait of Hormuz sent average U.S. gas prices past $4 a gallon. The social media post came after U.S. strikes hit the central city
Iran fired missiles across the Middle East on Tuesday as its capital was hit by fresh explosions, after US President Donald Trump threatened the country's key oil export hub, power stations and desalination plants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump's partner in attacking Iran, said more than half of his military aims had been achieved,
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran's energy resources and other vital infrastructure, potentially including desalination plants that supply drinking water, if a deal to end the war is not reached "shortly." Iran, meanwhile, struck a key water and electrical plant in Kuwait, and an oil refinery in Israel
US President Donald Trump pushed concerns about surging world prices aside Monday and threatened to destroy Iran's oil wells, power plants and main export terminal if Tehran does not quickly accept a peace deal. An earlier Trump comment warning of a possible assault by US ground troops to seize Iran's Kharg Island oil facilities had already sent prices
US President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times that he could take Iran's Kharg Island "very easily". Kharg Island, located off the west coast of Iran, is a vital oil terminal for the Middle Eastern country and is being eyed by the Pentagon for ground operations, though the United States insisted it would stop short of a full-scale
Few United Nations Security Council resolutions have been as one-sided as its recent condemnation of Iran’s “egregious attacks” on regional neighbours such as Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Leaving little room for interpretation, it describes those attacks as “a breach of international law and a serious threat to international
The American University of Beirut on Sunday said it would operate remotely over the next two days, following the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' threat to target US universities in the region. "Like many of you, we learned early this morning of threats issued against American universities in the region," AUB President Fadlo Khouri said in a statement
Iran claimed on Sunday attacks on two major aluminium plants in the Gulf, further raising the economic stakes of the Middle East war after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis joined the conflict. The war that began on February 28 with US-Israeli attacks on Iran has mushroomed throughout the region, sending world energy markets into a tailspin and threatening
Top diplomats from key regional powers were gathering in Pakistan on Sunday to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East, but there were few signs of progress as Israel and the U.S. kept up strikes on Iran, and Tehran responded by firing missiles and drones across the region. Pakistan said foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt
The war against Iran’s mullahs has now turned into a war against Iran. President Donald Trump has given various, often contradictory, justifications for his bombing the country to smithereens. One of them, ‘regime change’, has been made impossible by the destruction of ordinary life in Persia. Black, poisonous rain in Tehran, the decimation of apartments