We are not a party to the conflict and therefore France will never take part in operations to open or liberate the Strait of Hormuz in the current context. However, we are convinced that once the situation becomes calmer... we are ready, alongside other nations, to take responsibility for an escort system.
Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. You understood that wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the previous lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.
According to the report, the inquiry which has yet to be completed has found that officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using obsolete data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Iran has accused the U.S. and Israel of killing more than 1,300 civilians and striking over 10,000 civilian sites during the first 12 days of the war. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described Tuesday as the "most intense day" of U.S. attacks on Iran to date.
A surge in oil prices points to what may be Iran's most effective weapon and the United States' biggest vulnerability in continuing the campaign: Damaging the world economy. A sharp rise in gas prices has rattled consumers and financial markets, and international travel and shipping have been severely disrupted.
I don't know, Sarah, Witkoff replied. I know this, that President Trump is the wrong guy to go up against. That's what I know. He has drawn a red line, and that is that Iran cannot have a [nuclear] weapon. And yes, they say they don't. They don't want one. But all of their actions indicate the exact opposite.
Video footage that began to circulate online Sunday shows what appears to be a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking in the vicinity of an elementary school next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval complex, according to eight munitions experts. The video, which was verified by The Washington Post, is the latest indication of likely U.S. involvement in the attack on Feb. 28 that killed dozens of children in the southern Iranian city of Minab.
I was very concerned, very terrified. I still don't believe it's real. Singh, who had a layover in Doha while traveling home from a wedding in India, expressed her anxiety about the situation. Though she's been put up in a luxury hotel, she said it doesn't feel like a vacation because she is constantly updating family and wondering when she'll make it home to Texas.
For over 400 years, the Golestan Palace and its ornate mirror halls, lush gardens, and intricately tiled facade have stood as a testament to Persian opulence and the artistic and political heritage of Iran. The palace, originally built as part of a royal citadel in the 1500s and later renovated and expanded into a royal residence in the 18th and 19th centuries, has remained through centuries of dynastic upheavals, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and the country's recent history.
This is a difficult time for me. It is very difficult to see just a lot of places that I love being destroyed [and] neighborhoods being bombed. The stress of it is so much. I think a lot of people are not ready to be mobilized or to be planning and thinking about what is next and what to do - just watching in horror.
A significant portion of global petroleum consumption and a significant share of the world's LNG trade flows through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the open ocean. Iran's Revolutionary Guard has threatened to fire on ships attempting passage, effectively weaponising the chokepoint that the global energy system was built around.
Iran was never designed to win a conventional war against a superpower. Its doctrine is asymmetrical. Ballistic missiles reaching 2,000 kilometres make for dramatic headlines, but Tehran's real leverage lies in calibrated disruption: cyber operations, maritime insecurity in the Gulf, proxy ambiguity, and energy market shockwaves.
Both the oil and gold price were up Monday morning, as the Strait of Hormuz and safe-haven assets became the point of focus for markets. Geopolitical crises like the one unfolding currently will invariably apply upward pressure on the gold price and that's precisely what is happening this time round.
