live Iran, U.S. make competing claims over control of Strait of Hormuz
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim of “total control” over t...
Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport came under attack in heavy airstrikes on early Saturday morning (7 March), Iranian news agencies reported.
Videos purportedly taken in the early hours of Saturday show fire and a large plume of smoke rising over the Iranian capital, in the direction of the major domestic air hub just south of the city centre.
Thermal activity was detected in the vicinity of the airport at around 1:50am local time on Saturday (10:20pm GMT, 6 March).
Earlier, the Israeli military said it has begun a new wave of strikes targeting Iranian infrastructure in Tehran.
Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia reported they were responding to a fresh wave of missile and drone attacks on Saturday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that the country's Interim Leadership Council had approved the suspension of attacks on neighbouring countries, except where attacks on Iran came from those countries.
The United States and Israel launched a war on Iran last Saturday (February 28). Iran has been responding to the U.S.-Israel strikes with retaliatory attacks into Israel and Gulf states that host U.S. military bases.
Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has increased the strategic importance of Bab al-Mandab, raising fears that instability in both waterways could trigger a wider global energy and trade crisis.
Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a timeframe to implement it.
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