Oil loading operations have resumed in the UAE’s Fujairah, Bloomberg News reports.
Oil-loading operations have resumed in the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah emirate, a major bunkering hub and crude export terminal, after a drone strike and fire a day ago, Bloomberg News reported Sunday.
Fujairah, just outside the Strait of Hormuz, is the outlet for about 1 million barrels per day of the UAE’s Murban crude oil – equivalent to about 1% of world demand.
Tasnim News reports that Iran has arrested 20 people accused of being informers for Israel
Twenty people were arrested in northwest Iran for trying to cooperate with Israel, the Tasnim news agency reported, citing a statement from the prosecutor’s office in West Azerbaijan province.
He is accused of passing details of the location of Iran’s military and security assets to Israel.
Israel has launched a new phase of its offensive in Iran, targeting security checkpoints based on tips from informants on the ground, a source familiar with Israel’s military strategy told Reuters last week.
Zelensky says Russia is supplying Shahed drones to Iran
Russia is supplying Shahed drones to Iran for use against the US and Israel, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN in an interview broadcast on Saturday.
Iran pioneered the Shahed drone, a much cheaper alternative to expensive missiles, but Russia now manufactures its own Shaheds.
According to Ukrainians, since the end of 2022, Russian forces have launched thousands of people against Ukraine.
Zelensky told CNN’s Farid Zakaria that it was “100% true” that Iran used Russian-made Shaheds to attack US bases.
US orders non-emergency personnel to leave Oman amid Iran war
The US State Department said it has ordered non-emergency government employees and family members of government employees to leave Oman, citing security risks as the US-Israeli war over Iran continues.
US has identified six service members killed in Iraq
The Pentagon on Saturday released the identities of six U.S. personnel killed in the crash of a refueling plane in western Iraq earlier this week, which officials said was not caused by “hostile fire.”
A KC-135 aerial refueling plane crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, bringing the number of US troops on operations against Iran to at least 13. The second aircraft involved in the operation landed safely.
The Pentagon said the six members killed in the crash were: John Klinner, 33, of Auburn, Alabama; Ariana Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington; Ashley Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, Kentucky; Seth Koval, 38, of Mooresville, Indiana; Curtis Angst, 30, of Wilmington, Ohio; and Tyler Simmons, 28, of Columbus, Ohio.
The first three were members of the US Air Force, while the latter three were stationed in the US Air National Guard.
Iranian Guards Vow to ‘Follow and Kill’ Israeli PM Netanyahu
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed on Sunday to target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the war with Israel and the United States continues.
“If the culprit who killed this child is alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force,” the guards said on their website Sepa News.
Trump says the terms are not good enough for a deal with Iran
President Donald Trump told NBC News on Saturday that Iran is ready to strike a deal with the US but that he is not ready to do so because “the terms are not good enough yet.”
Trump declined to clarify the terms of a potential deal.
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In a telephone interview with a US news outlet, the president questioned whether Iran’s new supreme leader was alive and said it was unclear whether Iran had dropped mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Journalists reported that heavy explosions were heard in Manama, Bahrain
Explosions rang out in Bahrain’s capital Manama early Sunday, two AFP journalists said, as Iran continued its offensive across the Gulf.
Bahrain said it had intercepted 125 missiles and 203 drones since the start of Iran’s attacks, which killed two people in the kingdom and 24 in neighboring Gulf states.
Senior official says UAE has right to defend itself but will choose ‘restraint’
The United Arab Emirates has the right to defend itself against Iran’s ongoing strikes but will choose restraint, a senior UAE official said, as Tehran continued its retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.
“The UAE has the right to defend itself against this imposed terrorist attack, but it is still prioritizing reason and logic, continuing restraint and seeking a path to Iran and the region,” presidential adviser Anwar Gargash said late on Saturday at X.
The UAE “made sincere efforts until the last moment to mediate between Washington and Tehran to avoid this war,” he wrote.
Formula 1 cancels April races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia due to Iran war
Formula 1 and its governing body the FIA have canceled the upcoming Grand Prix races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia on safety grounds related to the Iran war.
Both countries were hit during Iran’s response after the United States and Israel launched a wave of attacks on Iran.
F1 was scheduled to race in Bahrain on April 12 and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 19.
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