US EditionIran Defies Trump's Hormuz Ultimatum with Naval Mine Threat
Iran warns of mining entire Persian Gulf to block shipping and targets U.S. allies’ energy infrastructure amid escalating tensions, risking global oil supply disruptions, officials said.
- On Monday, the Iranian Defense Council warned it would lay sea mines across the entire Persian Gulf if its coast or islands are attacked, Fars news agency reported.
- Israeli strikes on Iranian energy sites began on March 18, hitting the South Pars gas field, after President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to destroy Iran's power plants.
- Iran said it would target desalination plants and Gulf-state infrastructure, warning attacks on its power assets would trigger strikes on U.S. allies in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
- On Monday, Brent crude rose 1.2 per cent to US$113 a barrel, while Japan's Nikkei and Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 3.5 per cent, and London's FTSE-100 and Germany's DAX index declined about 2 per cent.
- The International Energy Agency said the Hormuz energy shock is unprecedented, with Fatih Birol comparing it to 1970s oil shocks and Russia's 2022 fallout; Lin Jian warned further escalation risks an uncontrollable region-wide escalation.
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Iran threatened Monday to lay naval mines in the Gulf and hit American electrical installations in the event of an attack on its coasts, defying Donald Trump's ultimatum on the reopening of the Strait of Ormuz, which is due to end in the evening.
Iran threatened Monday to undermine all access routes and communication routes of the Persian Gulf if its islands are attacked by the United States, a country that yesterday pointed out that the invasion of Jarg Island, where Iran’s main oil center is located, is on the table. “Any attempt by the enemy to attack the Iranian coasts or islands will naturally and in accordance with the usual military practice, provoke the mining of all access route…
Tehran threatens to completely block, by installing sea mines, the Persian Gulf if the United States and allies try to attack Iran's coast.
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