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16 articles about 8 events for “Iran Attacks After US Hits Tankers”.
“Oil prices jumped to a five-month high on Thursday after attacks in Saudi Arabia and hits to tankers in the strait of Hormuz threatened further disruptions to the world’s crude supply.”
“Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) said it fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the US military and attacked 10 ships on Wednesday, after the US said it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers, in a sharp escalation of the six-month-old war.”
“Iran's state media had previously said Tehran targeted U.S. assets across the region in retaliation for American attacks on Iranian oil tankers. - Yemen's Houthis seized the key Red Sea port of Mokha on Thursday, according to numerous reports.”
“In back and forth attacks, the US hit five Iranian tankers in reprisal strikes after Tehran targeted one of its warships.”
“…epublicans try to hold control of both chambers of Congress after midterm elections on 3 November Trump says Zelensky ‘not a good guy’ as Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian oil refineries Macron hits out at Trump for sending 'negative signal' over diesel deal…”
“… as the missile exchanges in the Gulf died down and Trump signalled that peace was on the way, the price of oil began to fall from the $100-plus US range it hit in response to the initial U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, and Iran's closure of the Strait of…”
“Brent crude futures breached US$100 a barrel to settle at their highest close since late May, after Iran and the U.S. struck tankers in the biggest wave of attacks on shipping since the war began.”
“Imagery obtained from open sources indicates the US’s Naval Support Activity (NSA) base in Bahrain sustained heavy damage in retaliatory strikes after the US and Israel launched air attacks across Iran in late February.”
“Reacting to reports that Iran approved passage of Iraqi oil tankers via the Strait of Hormuz, Alberto Fernandez, former U.S. ambassador and Mideast analyst, claimed that "the profit from that Iraqi oil goes, in part, to pay for Iran’s own Iraqi militias/death…”
“… this year's Ssang Yong drills being called off came a week after the U.S. cut short another major joint military exercise with South Korea, China. , fueling concern in Seoul, and in Japan, that Washington is becoming a less dependable ally in the face of…”