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US president says he is ‘not at all’ concerned about war crimes as he threatens the destruction of Iran’s key infrastructure by Tuesday
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Donald Trump has intensified his threats to strike Iranian bridges and power plants if his Tuesday deadline passes without a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway in the Middle East that carries about a fifth of the world’s oil.
“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” the US president told a news conference on Monday at the White House.
He said he is “not at all” concerned about war crimes as he threatens the destruction of Iran’s bridges and power plants.
Trump has given Tuesday at 8pm Washington time as his supposed final deadline for Iran to make a deal before the US begins striking key infrastructure. He reconfirmed this ultimatum during the press conference, but after issuing at least four prior deadlines, questions have been raised over his latest threat.
The president earlier claimed Iranians “want to hear bombs because they want to be free” in his latest bizarre rant as he stood next to the Easter Bunny at the White House Easter Egg Roll.
Also on Monday, Israel said it launched an attack on Iran’s largest petrochemical plant.
Fire erupted at Saudi Arabia’s Al Jubail industrial city after it was struck by Iranian missiles and drones, according to reports.
Ballistic missiles struck Al Jubail’s eastern province, triggering large fires at petrochemical facilities, according to visuals shared by the Fars news agency, which has ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Global stocks wavered this morning, while oil prices were perched near $110 per barrel as the prospect of escalation in the war in the Middle East and the looming deadline for a deal to be reached kept nervous investors on the sidelines.
Brent crude futures rose 0.4 per cent to $110.19 a barrel while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures climbed 0.8 per cent to $113.31.
Israeli airstrikes have flattened a synagogue in central Tehran, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported this morning.
Iran has been home to Jewish people for thousands of years. Up to 15,000 Jews still live in Iran, mostly concentrated in Tehran with smaller communities in Isfahan and Shiraz, according to Times of Israel.
The Philippine government said a Filipino national was killed in a missile attack in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa over the weekend.
The foreign ministry in Manila did not immediately identify the citizen but said she was killed with her Israeli husband and parents-in-law in a residential area in Haifa on Sunday.
On 28 February, a Filipino caregiver, Mary Ann de Vera, was killed in a missile strike in Tel Aviv while helping bring her charge to a bomb shelter in the first known Philippine casualty of the war in the Middle East. About 30,000 Filipinos live in Israel and work mostly as caregivers.
The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Bahrain’s draft resolution to protect commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has effectively closed the Middle Eastern waterway that carries about a fifth of the world’s oil as the US and Israel continue strikes against the country.
A version of the resolution that Reuters obtained and reported on early Tuesday morning, “strongly encourages States interested in the use of commercial maritime routes in the Strait of Hormuz to coordinate efforts, defensive in nature, commensurate to the circumstances, to contribute to ensuring the safety and security of navigation across the Strait of Hormuz”.
Securing the strait would include escorting commercial ships through the waterway, according to the proposal.
US special forces carried out a daring rescue mission to bring back an airman stranded 200 miles behind enemy lines after Iran shot down a $31m fighter jet on Friday.
Donald Trump said on Sunday that dozens of military aircraft had raced to rescue the missing weapons-system officer of a two-seat F-15E after the pilot ejected and was rescued under fire.
The president said that the injured second airman was stuck “in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour”.
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People on Polymarket, which describes itself as the world’s largest prediction market, have bet there’s a 100 per cent chance US forces enter Iran by the end of the month.
The US military campaign against Iran is in its sixth week with no end in sight. There have already been thousands of US troops deployed to the region.
US President Donald Trump has ramped up his threats against the Middle Eastern country, saying that Iran “can be taken out in one night” if they don’t reach a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil waterway, by Tuesday night, Washington time.
Two people have been killed in Iraq’s Irbil province after a home was struck by a drone, the Associated Press reported.
Authorities said Iran was behind the attack, per the AP.
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