- Iran Says Strikes Hit Key South Pars Gas Field, Oil Facilities Bloomberg.com
- Both sides in Iran war ratchet up attacks on energy facilities, as oil prices surge AP News
- Oil Prices Extend Gains After Attacks on South Pars Gas Field WSJ
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Category: 4. World
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Watch: Gunshots scatter crowd during Chaharshanbe Suri celebrations in Tehran
Social media footage posted March 17 shows crowds celebrating Chaharshanbe Suri in Tehran’s Chitgar district fleeing as gunshots ring out. Separate images appear to show Basij forces moving in to disperse gatherings during the fire festival.
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Who is winning so far? How Iran is turning Donald Trump’s war into an ‘epic failure’
On the war’s 19th day, the numbers still flatter the US and Israel. More Iranian officials are dead. More launchers are wrecked. More command nodes have been hit. Israel says it has penetrated deep into Iran’s security structure and is now…
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Trump’s failed strong-arming of allies on Iran shows that pressure is losing its effect
PARIS (AP) — We’ve long had your back, now it’s our turn. That is how the famously transactional U.S. President Donald Trump is framing his demands that allies help him with the Iran war. He wants to…
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Who blinks first: What Iran’s Strait of Hormuz strategy reveals about its war goals
If you ask Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has not been closed. You just have to do it Tehran’s way.
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Who blinks first: What Iran’s Strait of Hormuz strategy reveals about its war goals
Attacks on ships in Hormuz and strikes across the region expose Tehran’s strategy of gradual escalation and long war, testing US, Israeli and Gulf resolve.
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Iran continues exporting millions of barrels of oil as around 90 ships cross the Strait of Hormuz despite the war
HONG KONG (AP) — About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the outset of the war with Iran and it is still exporting millions of barrels of oil at a time when the waterway has been…
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Dire straits: The handful of marine choke points holding Europe’s economy hostage
When Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed after US-Israeli air strikes and began attacking commercial ships attempting to pass through, the effects were felt almost immediately. Not just in the Gulf, but in European homes and businesses thousands of kilometres away.
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