Iran US War News LIVE: Hardline Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei has warned that if US forces attack, Iran will take US troops hostage and attack US naval ships enforcing a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for global oil and gas supplies, AFP reports.
Iran US War News LIVE: What happened in the last few hours?
- Battleships in the US military “certainly can be exposed to our missiles and we can destroy them,” Rezaei, a former top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who was named military adviser by Khamenei last month, told state television, AFP reported.
- United States officials have imposed new sanctions on Iran targeting more than two dozen people involved in the transportation of oil, along with companies and ships that operate within the network of oil shipping magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani.
- The U.S. military’s Middle East Command, CENTCOM, announced that it stopped 10 vessels from leaving Iranian ports in the first 48 hours of the naval blockade against the Islamic Republic. However, ship tracking data indicated that at least three ships sailing from Iranian ports had crossed the Strait of Hormuz, although some vessels that had taken that route later turned back.
- Oil prices fell in early trading on Thursday on optimism about an easing of tensions between the US and Iran. Brent crude futures were down 44 cents, or 0.5 percent, at $94.49 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was down 70 cents, or 0.8 percent, at $90.59 a barrel, according to Reuters.
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