President Donald Trump says “death, fire and fury” will reign upon Iran if it continues to hinder the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz which has led to a surge in global oil prices.
Trump on social media said the U.S. would hit Iran “twenty times harder” than it has so far, and make it “virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back.”
But earlier he had indicated that U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran could finish “very soon,” offering some relief for stock markets. Maritime traffic through the waterway, which stewards roughly a fifth of the world’s oil, had plummeted under the threat of Iranian attacks.
It comes as U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continued into the early hours of Tuesday, while Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia also reported Iranian attacks.
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- Trump has given mixed messages about when the war will end. On Monday, he said the war was “very complete, pretty much” and ahead of schedule, but later he said “we haven’t won enough.”
- Oil prices have climbed back down from their highest point in years after Trump indicated an end to the U.S. campaign could be on the horizon. Stock markets rebounded as they opened on Tuesday.
- Trump said his Vice President JD Vance had been “philosophically a little bit different than me” at the start of the Iran conflict, but dismissed suggestions of a rift between them.
- Meanwhile Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says talks with the U.S. are no longer on the table, and that Iran is prepared to continue missile strikes for as long as necessary.
- Israel ordered residents in southern Lebanon to evacuate early Tuesday ahead of strikes it said were aimed at the Iran-backed militant and political group, Hezbollah.
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