Iran war live: 3 tankers reported hit in Hormuz; Trump calls Qatar’s emir
Al Jazeera · Heba Habib, Yashraj Sharma, Daniel Khalili-Tari ·
One of the tankers reports explosion off Oman while transiting Strait of Hormuz, says UK maritime agency.
- 11m ago(12:45 GMT) Israeli government feels its ‘time might be running out’ It looks like Gadi Eisenkot, who heads the Zionist opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu, is the most likely candidate to be asked to form a government. That has sent waves of panic across the constituency of Netanyahu and his coalition. Those settlers we see in the occupied West Bank, harassing Palestinians, attacking and setting property on fire and taking over land, that’s the constituency of Netanyahu and his coalition. They believe that their time might be running out. In the meantime, the consultations in the change bloc continue. It’s going to be difficult for that government to be formed because Eisenkot does not want to count on the support of this historic 19-seat bloc of Palestinian-Israelis. He wants a government of Zionist parties and that will be difficult because it will require bringing in people from Netanyahu’s bloc. Those parties could include the ultra-Orthodox parties.
- 26m ago(12:30 GMT) Tanker reports explosion off Oman while transiting Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO says The master of a tanker crossing the Strait of Hormuz reported an explosion at the vessel’s port-side waterline, 16 nautical miles (30 miles) east of Oman’s Khasab, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency has said. Noting it was a late report, the UKMTO said the incident occurred at 1am local time on Friday (22:00 GMT on Thursday). The tanker remains under its own power and is continuing its voyage, UKMTO said, adding that all crew are safe and accounted for.
- 41m ago(12:15 GMT) Iran will not settle for US ‘paper commitments’, security official says Iran will not return to diplomacy with the United States on the basis of “paper commitments”, says Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. “Iran must see America’s practical actions with its own eyes, and whenever these actions are observed, the ground for opening a new chapter will become possible,” Bagheri Kani told the state broadcaster IRIB, accusing Washington of having wrecked “all four rounds of negotiations” over the past year and a half by breaking its commitments. Bagheri Kani said the main purpose of security council chief Mohsen Rezaei’s three-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday was to deliver a message from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. He said the message set out Iran’s priorities for bilateral cooperation so that Moscow had a clearer picture of ties under Khamenei’s leadership. Advertisement
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