The US and Israel’s war on Iran has entered its fourth day, a campaign that US President Donald Trump said Monday would take several weeks.
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Trump said operations are likely to last four to five weeks but that he was prepared “to go far longer than that.”
Meanwhile, Tehran has continued its attacks across the region, striking Israel and a variety of targets inside Gulf states, including energy facilities in Qatar and the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia.
Iran also claimed the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and threatened to attack any ship trying to pass through the key shipping lane linking the Gulf to global markets.
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5:19 GMT+1
Netanyahu claims Iran was trying to make ‘atomic bomb programme immune’
Speaking to FOX News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the decision to go to war with Iran alongside the United States.
“They started building new sites, new places, underground bunkers that would make their ballistic missile program and their atomic bomb programme immune within months,” Netanyahu said without offering evidence to support his claim.
Satellite photos analysed by The Associated Press showed limited activity at two nuclear sites in Iran before the joint US-Israel attacks. Analysts say it was likely Tehran was trying to assess damage from American strikes in June and possibly salvage what remained there.
5:10 GMT+1
Iran warns it will attack ships trying to pass Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claims it closed the Strait of Hormuz and threatened on Monday to attack any vessel trying to pass through the critical shipping lane linking the Gulf to global markets.
A large share of the world’s oil and gas passes through it daily.
“We will burn any ship that tries to pass through the Strait of Hormuz,” General Sardar Jabbari said in a post on the Guards’ Telegram channel. “We will also attack oil pipelines and will not allow a single drop of oil to leave the region. Oil price will reach $200 in the coming days”.
Energy prices rose as a result of the disruption to the traffic passing through the waterway, as well as Iran’s continued attacks on energy infrastructure across the Gulf.
