US EditionIsrael Launches New Strikes as Iran Squeezes Key Oil Shipping Route Strait of Hormuz
Iran's IRGC asserts control over the key energy route, warning of missile and drone threats to ships amid escalating regional tensions and US naval escorts, officials said.
- On Wednesday , Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it controls the Strait of Hormuz and warned vessels could face missile damage, sealing the waterway.
- In retaliation for U.S.-Israeli strikes since Saturday, the IRGC said it launched Operation True Promise 4 and warned ships could be hit by missiles or drones, sealing off the Strait of Hormuz, according to General Ebrahim Jabbari.
- IRGC said it struck a U.S. destroyer in the Indian Ocean using Ghadr-380 and Talaieh missiles while refuelling from an American tanker, triggering widespread fires aboard.
- President Donald Trump ordered the United States Navy to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary and directed the United States Development Finance Corporation to insure maritime trade, while national governments evacuated citizens amid disrupted air travel.
- The Strait of Hormuz's strategic role means its closure threatens global fuel trade as about one-fifth of seaborne oil passes through, while the wider conflict displaced more than 30,000 people and killed 787, according to the Iranian Red Crescent and United Nations.
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The article Israel attacks Tehran and Beirut, drones and missiles on Kuwait. I pasdaran: "We control the Strait of Hormuz, ahead with war to the extreme" comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced today that it has "full control" over the Strait of Hormuz.
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