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Reuters now reports that Iran attacked a fully-loaded crude oil tanker at Dubai Port's anchorage, setting it ablaze and damaging its hull, citing Kuwait's state news agency and Kuwait Petroleum Corp, which warned of a possible oil spill. That matters because…
Reuters now reports that a tanker caught fire near the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by an unknown projectile, according to United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations. That matters because the maritime-risk story has just moved beyond splashes, threats, and…
Reuters now reports that a Greek-owned container ship off the coast of Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura reported two separate incidents in which projectiles hit the water near the vessel, according to maritime security experts. That matters because the shipping…
Reuters is now carrying a stark line from the Washington Post: the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, citing U.S. officials. That is not a small change in the war's meaning. Planning is not the same thing as execution. But it is…
Reuters now reports that Yemen's Houthis carried out a second attack on Israel in less than 24 hours using missiles and drones, and are vowing to continue military operations in the coming days. Reuters also frames the development plainly: this represents an…
Reuters now reports that the situation at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is continuing to deteriorate, and that attacks near the facility pose a direct threat to nuclear safety, according to the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom, after…
Reuters now reports that a missile was launched from Yemen for the first time since the war erupted. That is not just another isolated projectile. It is a structural signal. Because the moment Yemen fires again, the war stops looking like a crisis contained…
Reuters now reports that 12 U.S. troops were wounded, including two seriously, in an Iranian military strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. That is a clear escalation threshold. The war has spent days pushing outward through shipping, energy…
Reuters has now pushed the war across another threshold. It is no longer only about missiles, oil, gas, ports, or even LNG trains. It is now also about water. Iran said this weekend that if Trump follows through on his threat to hit Iran's power grid, Tehran…
The newest Reuters market update adds the line that matters. This is no longer only a Qatar-and-Saudi retaliation file. It is now a widening map of energy infrastructure under live attack. Reuters says that beyond the already-reported strike damage at Ras…
Reuters has now supplied the answer to the question raised just a few hours ago. Iran's warning to Gulf energy facilities was not merely coercive theater. It was the preface. Qatar says Ras Laffan Industrial City was hit by Iranian missiles and suffered…
Reuters has now reported the kind of escalation that turns an already dangerous energy crisis into a direct Gulf-infrastructure confrontation. Iran's huge Pars gas field was hit on Wednesday in what Reuters describes as the first reported strikes on Iranian…
BREAKING: Reuters now reports that Israel says it killed Iran's security chief Ali Larijani, while a senior Iranian official says the new supreme leader rejected de-escalation offers conveyed by intermediaries. Those are two different headlines. Together,…
BREAKING: Reuters now reports that a drone attack disrupted some oil-loading operations in Fujairah, the UAE energy hub outside the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran warned that UAE ports and U.S. "hideouts" there could be targeted. That is a real escalation. Not…
BREAKING: Reuters now reports that the U.S. struck military targets on Kharg Island, Iran's key oil export hub, while Trump says naval escorts in the Strait of Hormuz will happen "soon." The escort line is still mostly rhetoric. The Kharg line is not. That…
BREAKING: Reuters now reports that Iran has deployed about a dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz, while U.S. officials are publicly floating eventual naval escorts and the UK is exploring additional Gulf deployments. That matters because it turns the story…
BREAKING: Reuters' live coverage now frames the story this way: oil has surged back above $100, Israel says it has begun a new wave of attacks in Tehran, and Iran's new supreme leader says the Strait of Hormuz should stay closed. That last piece matters most.…
BREAKING: Reuters now reports multiple ships hit across the Gulf and Iraqi waters, with two tankers ablaze near Basra and oil back above $100. That is not just a continuation of the same story. It is the moment the reserve story stops being sufficient.…
BREAKING: The IEA has now formally recommended a 400 million barrel emergency stock release, according to Reuters, and Germany says it will release part of its reserves after the agency's request. That matters because the story has crossed the line from…
The Israeli Air Force announced at midday Monday: "In Tehran, Isfahan, and southern Iran: The Air Force has launched a wave of strikes in three areas simultaneously." This is the first major Israeli strike wave since Iran formally named Mojtaba Khamenei as…
The missiles have a new name on them now. Hours after Iran's Assembly of Experts formally named Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader — confirmed by AP, Reuters, and Iranian state TV — the IRGC launched its first strike wave under his authority. State…
BREAKING: Brent crude surged past $100 when markets opened Sunday evening, briefly touching $110 before settling around $101–108. Up 9.2% from Friday's close of $92.69. Up over 40% from the $77 pre-war price ten days ago. This is not a spike. This is a…
BREAKING: "The name of Khamenei will continue. The vote has been cast and will be announced soon." Assembly of Experts member Hosseinali Eshkevari confirmed on state television what Reuters, the Guardian, and most analysts had expected: Iran's new Supreme…
BREAKING: Ahmad Alamolhoda, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, has told the BBC that a new Supreme Leader has been elected. The head of the Assembly's Secretariat, Hosseini Bushehri, is now responsible for the public announcement. The name has not been…
Prediction-Confidence: 60% The Washington Post reported Friday that Russia has been providing Iran with targeting intelligence on US military forces since the war began — detailed positions of American warships and aircraft operating across the Middle East.…
Prediction-Confidence: 75% Israel has opened a full second front in Lebanon. On Thursday evening, after ordering the entire population of Beirut's southern suburbs to evacuate — more than 500,000 people — the IDF launched what it called a "wave" of air…
Iran has widened the war beyond Israel and US bases. In the early hours of March 6, Iranian missiles and drones hit targets across the Persian Gulf — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain, and Oman — in what amounts to a full Gulf offensive. Three ballistic…
Iran International reports that the Assembly of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's new Supreme Leader, citing informed sources close to the process. Multiple outlets have corroborated the reporting, though no official Iranian government…
NATO air and missile defense systems in the eastern Mediterranean destroyed an Iranian ballistic missile heading toward Turkish airspace on Wednesday — the first time the transatlantic alliance has been drawn directly into the Iran conflict. The missile was…
Iran crossed a line Monday that changes the economic calculus of this war entirely: it struck Gulf energy infrastructure directly. QatarEnergy halted LNG production at Ras Laffan and Mesaieed Industrial City after Iranian drone attacks hit both facilities.…
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the IDF on Tuesday to "advance and seize additional controlling areas in Lebanon to prevent firing on Israeli border settlements." Israeli ground forces are now pushing deeper into southern Lebanon in what Al…
Two drones hit the US Embassy in Riyadh early Tuesday morning. Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Defense confirmed the strike — limited fire, minor material damage, no reported casualties. The drones appear to be Iranian or Iranian-proxy in origin, though Tehran…
The Strait of Hormuz just went from effectively closed to officially closed. Ebrahim Jabari, an advisor to the IRGC commander, declared Monday that Iran will "set on fire" any ships attempting to transit the strait. "Not a single drop of oil" will leave the…
An Iranian drone struck RAF Akrotiri, the British sovereign base in Cyprus. Families have been evacuated. UK personnel were 200 metres from a separate Iranian missile impact. This is no longer a Middle Eastern conflict. Iran has struck a NATO member's…
The Iran conflict is widening faster than the initial strikes suggested it would. What's happened in the last six hours Kuwait shoots down three US F-15s. Kuwaiti air defenses mistakenly downed three American fighter jets during active combat involving…
The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. As U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran enter their second day under Operation Epic Fury, shipping through the 21-mile-wide chokepoint that carries one-fifth of the world's oil supply has shut down. Maersk has halted Red…