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Iran Fires on Targets Across the Mideast While Israel and US Hit Tehran as War Nears Its 5th Week
- On Friday, Iran launched strikes across the Middle East, damaging Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi refinery and a desalination plant, while American and Israeli airstrikes simultaneously hit the Islamic Republic as the war neared the end of its fifth week.
- Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which around 20% of global traded crude oil passes, has roiled energy markets; Brent crude prices reached around $109 early Friday, up more than 50% since the war began.
- More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran during the war. ACLED, a U.S.-based group, found civilian casualties clustered around strikes on security and state-linked sites rather than indiscriminate bombardment of urban areas.
- Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif proposed limiting Iran's nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for sanctions relief, yet the U.N. Security Council remained deadlocked over a Bahraini resolution authorizing force after Russia and China opposed it.
- President Donald Trump pledged U.S. forces will keep hitting Iran "very hard" in the next two or three weeks, while French President Emmanuel Macron warned that military operations would "take an infinite amount of time" and expose vessels to coastal threats from Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
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