Iran war live: IRGC says US drone downed, tankers hit in Straight of Hormuz
Al Jazeera · Priyanka Shankar, Mohammed R Mhawish ·
One of the tankers reports explosion off Oman while transiting Strait of Hormuz, says UK maritime agency.
- 16m ago(16:00 GMT) How many seafarers have been killed since the war on Iran began? Since the US and Israel’s war on Iran began, attacks on shipping in the Gulf region have become regular, with Tehran closing the Strait of Hormuz and Washington imposing a naval blockade on Iranian ships and ports. According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), until October 27, the number of attacks in the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman stood at 121, with at least 24 seafarers killed. Since then, attacks on tankers in the Gulf have still been running close to a record pace. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Al Mayeda was hit on October 30, the Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) said on Sunday. No crew members were injured or killed, however. The Greek management firm Velos Tankers said today that a seafarer was killed in an explosion believed to have been caused by a missile attack on Thursday on an oil products tanker in the Gulf. The tanker MT Velos was sailing unladen towards Bahrain when it was hit, the company said.
- 31m ago(15:45 GMT) Pogroms ‘choking agriculture in the occupied West Bank’ The Israeli army provides protection for Israeli settlers … and sometimes, they’ve even been caught on camera partaking in the abuse and assault of Palestinians. What happened in Abu Falah is part of a pattern. It’s not an isolated incident. The Israeli army has instructions to detain international activists and even Israeli peace activists, and revoke their permits which allow them to be in the occupied West Bank. Most recently, that included Brad Lander, who went on to win a seat in the US Congress. He was forced to leave the occupied West Bank along with a Jewish-American activist. He wanted to protect this olive harvest season and be there with Palestinians. This reality has crushed the olive harvest season this year and is really choking agriculture in the occupied West Bank.
- 46m ago(15:30 GMT) Iran’s strategy has left Trump ‘narrow room to maneuver’ Hassan Ahmadian, an associate professor at the University of Tehran and deputy director of the Middle East Scientific and Strategic Studies Center, says Iran’s strategy in responding to US-Israeli attacks has weakened US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at home and narrowed their options in any confrontation with Iran. “Iran’s strategy has succeeded in weakening Trump and Netanyahu at home,” Ahmadian wrote on X. “That affects them both and narrows their room to maneuver and the range of options open to them and to whoever succeeds them in their confrontation with Iran.” Writing in the wake of the US midterm elections, Ahmadian said Trump has no clear idea of how a limited strike would end, “and that’s what feeds his personal hesitation and the splintered views of his circle on Iran”. “None of this means he won’t attack Iran,” he said, but Trump wants to be sure a strike is worth it, gives him “a respectable way out”, and does not lead Iran to widen its response into an all-out war against US forces and Israel. Iran’s “cognitive warfare” has kept Trump “in the fog” about what would follow a limited war, Ahmadian said, and he “needs to make up his mind fast, before next January”. Advertisement
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