US EditionIran's Underground Arsenal, Decentralised Military Key to Press on with Strikes on Gulf States
Iran launched over 700 missiles and 3,600 drones targeting Gulf sites and shipping in retaliation for the US-Israel-led war, disrupting a key global oil route, officials said.
- Iran launched strikes across the Gulf on Monday, and Araghchi said 'By now they have... understood what kind of nation they are dealing with'; Trump plans a news conference after European rejection of a NATO mission.
- Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they fired 700 missiles and 3,600 drones as part of the Gulf strikes, retaliating for the war launched on February 28, driving global oil prices up 40 to 50 percent.
- Saudi Arabia's defence ministry said it intercepted more than 60 drones overnight and a strike near the Syria border killed six Hashed al-Shaabi fighters on Monday.
- The UN refugee agency estimates up to 3.2 million people have been displaced in Iran, and Iran's health ministry reported more than 1,200 Iranians killed by US and Israeli strikes as of March 8.
- The IEA said more strategic oil stocks could be released if needed, and a Pakistani oil tanker transited the Strait of Hormuz with its transmitter activated, suggesting negotiated safe passage.
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Iran's underground arsenal, decentralised military key to press on with strikes on Gulf states
Reporting from Doha in Qatar for FRANCE 24, Hoda Abdel-Hamid explains that Iran has been able to keep striking Gulf countries, despite claims made by US President Donald Trump that its arsenal had been decimated, because most of its weapons may be underground and the country has decentralised its military, giving regional commanders the right to call the shots.
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What happenedA defiant Iran intensified its attacks on Arab states and U.S. assets across the Middle East this week, as President Trump seesawed on America’s war aims and when the joint U.S.-Israeli offensive on Iran might end. Thousands of Iranian missiles and drones have rained down on Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and other Arab nations, smashing into oil refineries, airports, residential buildings, and hotels and k…
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Iran defiant as strikes hit Gulf transport, Trump to speak
Iran said it was ready to take the Middle East war "as far as necessary" as it launched strikes across the region on Monday, while US allies pushed back against Donald Trump's call for help to reopen a vital shipping…
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