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What you need to know about Iran today, with Laura Tingle
Two tankers caught fire in Iraqi waters on Thursday, marking a possible intensification of Iranian attacks. (Reuters: Mohammed)
Hi, I'm ABC global affairs editor Laura Tingle, and I'm in Dubai.
This is the last of my daily updates. From Monday, ABC News Middle East correspondent Matt Doran will be taking over from Jerusalem.
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Iran has increasingly been turning the war with the United States and Israel into an economic war based on oil. You will have seen the pictures on the news of burning oil refineries and oil tankers across the Gulf. Countries from Kuwait to Iraq have had to wind back production because they are running out of storage space for their oil.
What we know on the 14th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
Oil prices are still surging – and stocks falling – as the US-Israel war with Iran nears the end of a second week, after Tehran’s new supreme leader vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. Global leaders’ attempts to reassure markets and release emergency oil reserves are yet to reverse those trends.
Casualties are mounting, with a French soldier in Iraq and two academics in Lebanon among those killed in the past day as well as a US Air Force refuelling tanker carrying at least five crew lost over western Iraq.
Israel, Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah continued trading strikes overnight into Friday.
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Here’s a wrap of what we covered in the last 24 hours.
In an update on its Telegram channel this hour, the Israeli Defence Force has claimed it struck an “additional Iranian nuclear program site” during its waves of strikes in Tehran in the last few days.
“The ‘Taleghan’ compound was used to advance … developing nuclear weapons,” the IDF said, claiming Iran had tried to rehabilitate Taleghan after it was last struck in October 2024.
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