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Tankers are being hit almost daily in the Strait of Hormuz, yet Gulf crude exports topped pre-war levels for 14 days in September. Shipping data shows 18.3 million barrels a day flowing through the world's most dangerous waterway — and the crews who sail it are paying the real price.
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Outside the White House, Donald Trump announced a coming 'decision' on Iran — 'the easy way or the hard way' — while boasting that Tehran has been 'decimated' and promising oil prices will 'drop like a rock' when it ends. Ultimatums are not strategy; they are the theatre of an empire that prices...
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The Kuwait-flagged crude tanker was struck in the Strait of Hormuz; India's mission in Oman shifted five nationals ashore safely. UKMTO says all crew are safe; the strike is the sixth on a commercial vessel in the region this week.
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Yemen's armed forces say 474 airstrikes and precision operations in 24 hours killed or wounded 1,540 Houthi fighters, concentrated on the Taiz fronts, and destroyed 216 military vehicles. The claims came as missile debris from a Houthi launch injured a resident in Saudi Arabia's Asir region, Houthi shelling killed five people including a child in Taiz, and the WHO warned Yemen's health system is nearing breaking point, with 838 dead and over 3,000 wounded since August.
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Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days in exchange for an end to the US naval blockade, sanctions relief and the release of $12bn in frozen assets. Trump rejected it. As a third US aircraft carrier heads for the Gulf, nearly 70% of Americans say the war is not worth fighting.
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A British-Iranian man was arrested in London on Thursday over a suspected terror plot near the US-used airbase, after the Prime Minister said there were "strong indications" of Iranian involvement. Tehran denies any role.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard urged the US public to protest Trump's "warmongering" weeks before the midterms, as the rial crashed past 2.5 million to the dollar and Washington imposed fresh sanctions on 10 entities.
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Seven months after the United States went to war with Iran, negotiators met in New York in the first talks since June. President Trump rejected Tehran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for ending the US naval blockade.
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