Despite US President Donald Trump raising the prospect of the war winding up soon, there’s been no let-up in attacks by the US and Israel on Iran.
At the same time, Iran has continued to strike deep inside Israel, as well as targeting the vital energy infrastructure of its Gulf neighbours.
The US military is deploying thousands of additional troops to the Middle East, while Iran’s newly instated supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, thanked the Iranian people and the armed forces for their resistance as the war hit the three-week mark.
Khamenei declared Nowruz — the Persian calendar’s new year, which began over the weekend — as the “year of the resistance economy in the spirit of national unity and security”, while also denying that Iranian forces had carried out attacks on Türkiye and Oman.
In other developments, Iran attacked an oil refinery in Kuwait on Friday, and Israel killed a spokesperson of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Israel promised to avoid further attacks on Iran’s South Pars gas field the day after an Iranian retaliatory strike on Qatar caused damage that will leave the world short of natural gas for years to come.
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