The narrow waterway, conduit for around a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies, has been effectively closed to most shipping since the United States and Israel launched the war against Iran almost three weeks ago.

Iran launched a new wave of drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and Israel meanwhile after supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei claimed to have dealt a "dizzying blow" to his country's enemies.

The US-Israel war with Iran has driven up energy prices

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Israeli military says strikes launched on targets in Tehran

On Thursday, drones struck a Saudi oil refinery on the Red Sea and caused fires at two others in Kuwait, as Iran stepped up attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure.

For a self-described Transatlanticist like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the language has been unusually blunt

Trump warns Iran not to attack neighbours over Israel's South Pars strike

Trump also said Israel would not make any ‌more attacks on Iranian facilities in South Pars unless Iran attacked Qatar

The repercussions of the Middle East war will be felt globally, Tehran’s top diplomat warned yesterday, as Iran’s huge Pars gas field was hit in the first reported strikes on its energy infrastructure during the US-Israeli war.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told Al Jazeera in remarks relayed by Iranian media on Wednesday

The attack overnight on Tuesday killed two people in a neighbourhood close to densely populated Tel Aviv

Iran will hold funerals Wednesday for Larijani and another powerful figure killed Tuesday by Israel, Gholamreza Soleimani

A senior Iranian ​official said Iran's new supreme leader rejected de-escalation offers conveyed by intermediary countries

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency confirms

In a rare admission, Trump said Monday that he was surprised by the Iranian reprisals

Early Wednesday, Israel's army also warned it would strike a building in Aaqbiyeh

Israel yesterday claimed to have killed Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, while a senior Iranian official said the new supreme leader had rejected de-escalation offers conveyed by intermediaries, demanding Israel and the US first be “brought to their knees”.

Khamenei's stance for revenge against the US and Israel is 'very tough and serious.'

Israel's defence minister made the claim