Middle East crisis live: Trump increases pressure on allies over strait of Hormuz; flights suspended at Dubai airport | US-Israel war on Iran
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Japan says it will not send warships “at this time” to help reopen the Strait of HormuzIt comes after Donald Trump called on countries to join “teamwork” to protect ships from Iranian attacks.
The strait has been almost completely closed since the start of the war, raising global energy supply fears and the US president repeatedly pressed countries over the weekend to help ensure security.
Trump was specifically named Chinese, United Kingdom, Japan, France And South Korea – and we warned before NATO If its members did not take action, they would face a “very bad” future.
Japanese defense minister Shinjiro Koizumi he told the country’s parliament:
In Iran’s current situation, we are not currently considering conducting a maritime security operation.
My colleague Kiran Stacey previously reported that UK ministers were drawing up plans to send minesweeping drones to the strait, amid concerns in Whitehall that complying with Trump’s request to send ships could escalate the crisis.
Australia He also confirmed that he would not send a ship. “We know how incredibly important this is, but it’s not something we’re asked to do or contribute to,” the transport minister said. Catherine King he told national broadcaster ABC.
Donald Trump is said to be trying to form a coalition of countries that will try to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Axios hopes the US president will announce the list later this week reportedQuoted from four anonymous sources.
Over the weekend, Trump claimed “many countries” would send warships to the region, before publicly urging a number of countries to do so. Reply muted, colleague Hannah Ellis-Petersen Reported from Dubai.
One-fifth of the world’s oil supply normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway off the southern coast of Iran. Iran’s virtual closure of this region in retaliation for US-Israeli attacks led to a disaster for global energy and trade flows and caused global oil prices to rise in what has been called the “largest oil supply disruption in history”.
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Here are the latest developments:
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Donald Trump warned that NATO would face a “very bad” future if US allies did not help open the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reported.. He also said on Sunday that about seven countries had requested that he send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but his calls did not yield any commitments because oil prices rose during the Iran war. The president declined to name countries heavily dependent on Middle Eastern crude oil, with which the administration is negotiating to join a coalition to control the waterway through which about a fifth of the world’s oil trade normally flows. Australia and Japan refused to send their navies to the strait.
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At Dubai Airport, which was previously one of the busiest airports in the world, flights were temporarily stopped after a fire broke out nearby due to a “drone-related incident”.city officials said Monday. The Gulf financial hub’s media office said the incident affected a fuel tank, adding that authorities later extinguished the fire. The office said no injuries were reported.
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Israel says its military remains focused on thousands of potential targets in IranWhile Tehran issued a stern warning to neighboring countries not to become further involved in the rapidly expanding regional war.
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Oil prices rose again amid rising supply fears after the United States struck Iran’s vital Kharg Island oil hub and Trump asked allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. International benchmark Brent crude rose 1.8% to $104.98 per barrel in early trading on Monday. Another weekend of violence in the Middle East has raised concerns about the conflict and its consequences for global energy markets.
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British prime minister Keir Starmer discussed with Trump the need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to end disruption to global shipping, a Downing Street spokesman said on Sunday. Starmer also met with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and discussed with the leaders the impact of the ongoing closure of the strait on international shipping, the spokesman told Reuters.
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The Italian army said that there was a drone attack on the Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait, which hosts Italian and US forces, but all personnel were safe. “This morning, the Ali Al Salem base in Kuwait was the target of a drone attack that hit the shelter housing a remote-controlled aircraft of the Italian Task Force Air Force (TFA), which was destroyed,” chief of defense staff Luciano Portolano said in a statement.
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UN peacekeepers say they were fired upon “possibly by non-state armed groups” in southern Lebanon On Sunday, a Hamas source said that an official from the Palestinian militant group was killed in the Israeli attack.
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Five people were injured in a rocket attack on Baghdad international airport in Iraq, where the US diplomatic facility is located.Iraqi officials said. The Iraqi government’s security media cell said “five rockets targeted Baghdad International Airport and its surroundings, injuring four airport employees and security personnel and an engineer.”
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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said there was a “very good chance” gas prices would fall below $3 per gallon by the summer, but that depended on the end of the Iran conflict.. Wright told NBC’s Meet the Press that U.S. drivers are “feeling it at the pump right now” and will “feel it for a few more weeks,” but that once the Iran war is over, we’ll move on to a “more abundant” and “more affordable” energy world.
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a short video to mock viral rumors on social media that he had been killed. “I died for coffee,” he jokingly posted on his official X account, using a Hebrew slang term that equates being “dead” for something with loving it, while taking a sip from a steaming cup at a cafe near Jerusalem.
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The World Health Organization announced on Sunday that it has allocated $2 million from its Emergency Fund (CFE) to support the health response in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. In the middle of the Middle East crisis.
