Panic. US issues security alerts across the Middle East
The US has issued security alerts for its citizens across the Middle East, warning of further escalation between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
The US has issued security alerts for its citizens across the Middle East, warning of further escalation between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
Ali Larijani, an aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned in April that an attack by the United States or Israel would force Iran to reconsider its nuclear stance.
The Iranian president in his address to US President Donald Trump: ‘In this world, there are two kinds of friends. Those with guns and those who dig. You dig.’
The American armed Israeli military has pushed deeper into the country’s south, seizing Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress and a key vantage point in the region.
According to the IRGC, the Iranian armed forces disabled a US base in response to new strikes. Drones and missiles were intercepted over Kuwait on Thursday, the kingdom’s authorities said.
‘We took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business. Who would have thought we were doing that? We’re like pirates. We’re sort of like pirates,’ Trump said, prompting laughter in the audience.
The Iranian authorities insist that they will keep preventing vessels from the US and its allies from going through the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for some 25% of global crude trade, for as long as the country is being harnessed.
Importantly, it is best to remember that methods of warfare have changed radically since the Iraq War. On this occasion, Israel and Washington DC, armed only with a knife, have blundered into a gunfight.
Global policymakers are warning that the immense scale of destruction in the Gulf could have lingering effects for a long time to come, regardless of what happens in Islamabad, Karthik Sankaran noted in an analysis for Responsible Statecraft.
‘Open the Fu*kin’ Strait, crazy bastards’ Trump screams as he threatens indomitable Iran with strikes on power plants, bridges.
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