Oil prices hit four year high: Latest news on the Middle East conflict on 9 March
Global oil prices reached a four year high on Monday (9 March), surpassing $...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that the United States confronts Iran because it wants the country to be "obedient," a demand he called "offensive" and vowed the nation would resist.
Khamenei said the current situation with the United States was "unsolvable", and the Iranian nation will stand with all of its power against those who have the erroneous expectations that Iran should obey the U.S.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday, saying that Iran plans to hold a new round of nuclear talks with the U.K., France and Germany on Tuesday.
Previously on 25 July, representatives from Iran and the U.K., France and Germany held talks in Istanbul, Türkiye, exchanging views on the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal and related sanctions.
Western countries recently have threatened Iran with the activation of a "snapback" sanctions mechanism, demanding that Iran continue to fulfill the Iran nuclear deal, including resuming full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and restricting the scale of nuclear development in accordance with the Iran nuclear deal.
In response, the Iranian side stated that the threat from Western countries to activate the "snapback" sanctions mechanism lacks legal and political basis.
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a hardline cleric with strong backing from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. His rise signals continuity in Tehran's anti-Western policies.
Trump says the United States "don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won," targeting his criticism at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Israel continues to fire missles at strategic sites in Iran and Gulf regions report more strikes from Iran.
Global oil prices surpassed $119 a barrel on Monday (9 March, 2026), an almost four year high, as the Middle East conflict rumbled on.
Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader on Monday (9 March), signaling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the week-old U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil above $100 a barrel.
Entry and exit across the state border between Azerbaijan and Iran for all types of cargo vehicles, including those in transit, will resume on 9 March, according to a statement by the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan.
U.S. President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke by phone on Sunday as tensions between Washington and Westminster deepened over the conflict involving Iran. The call came less than a day after Trump criticised Britain’s response to U.S. strikes on Iranian targets.
Norwegian police are searching for a suspect after an explosion at the U.S. embassy in Oslo on 8 March caused minor damage but no injuries, in what authorities say may have been a deliberate attack linked to the Middle East crisis.
An explosion damaged a synagogue in the Belgian city of Liège early on Monday (9 March) in what authorities said was an antisemitic attack that caused damage but no injuries.
The Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers will meet on Monday to discuss a global rise in oil prices and a joint release of oil from emergency reserves coordinated by the International Energy Agency, the Financial Times reports.
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