The conflict, which began on February 28 with a joint attack by the United States and Israel against Iran, shows no sign of truce, with daily attacks and constant threats from the parties.
O Iran launched new attacks against Israel and the Gulf countries this Monday (6) and issued a warning of “devastating” reprisals” if the President of the United States, Donald Trump, carry out the threat to destroy civilian facilities.
More than a month after the start of the war in the Middle East, which caused thousands of deaths and shook the world economy, Tehran again launched missiles and drones against Israel, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
In Israel, firefighters reported that they found two people dead under the rubble of a building hit on Sunday by an Iranian missile in Haifa, in the north of the country. Two other people are missing.
The Israeli Army, in turn, announced a new series of attacks against Tehran. The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, announced this Monday the death of its intelligence chief in a bombing.
“General Majid Khademi (…) died as a martyr in the terrorist and criminal attack of the American-Zionist enemy,” the Guard stated on its Telegram channel.
In the Iranian capital, a gas installation was damaged by an attackwhich deprived part of the city of supplies, state television Irib reported. The university next to the infrastructure also suffered damage.
According to the Iranian press, several attacks hit residential neighborhoods in Tehran, where eight hospitals were evacuated. In the city of Qom, in the center of the country, five people died in an attack on a residential neighborhood, the Tasnim agency reported.
Following President Donald Trump’s threats to attack civilian facilitiesIranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadim, denounced possible “war crimes”.
For its part, the Iranian military command warned in a statement that “if attacks against civilian targets continue, the next phases of our attack and reprisal operations will be much more devastating and widespread.”
The conflict, which began on February 28 with a joint attack by the United States and Israel against Iran, shows no signs of respite.with daily attacks and constant threats from the parties.
“Open… Narrow, you crazy bastards, or you will live in hell,” Trump wrote on Sunday on his Truth Social platform, setting a new ultimatum for the reopening of Hormuz for Tuesday night (9 p.m. Brasília).
The sea route is crucial for the transport of fuel and its closuresince the beginning of the war, caused the price of oil to soar and the destabilization of the world economy.
The Revolutionary Guard naval force, however, announced on Monday that it is preparing a “new order” in the Gulf and that conditions in the Strait of Hormuz “will never return to their previous status, in particular for the United States and Israel.”
Oil at $110
Trump considers he has achieved military objectives in Iran and is now threatening to attack civilian installations, such as bridges and power plants if Iran does not reopen Hormuz.
“Our entire region will burn because they insist on following the orders of (Benjamin) Netanyahu”, the Israeli Prime Minister, declared the President of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.
The threats continue to affect the markets: the prices of a barrel of Brent and WTI, the two main oil references, fluctuated this Monday around 110 dollars per barrel.
Russia, Saudi Arabia and six other members of the OPEC+ oil cartel decided to increase production quotas again from May.
Rising energy prices have consequences around the world, such as in Egypt, which has imposed a commercial curfew at 9pm on weekdays and 10pm on weekends.
Danny Citrinowicz, a security analyst and former Israeli intelligence expert, said the prospect of a deal between the United States and Iran, “at least under current conditions, is almost nonexistent.”
In the Gulf countries, hit daily by Iran, Kuwait announced this Monday that it was the target of missile and drone attacks, which left six injured, and the United Arab Emirates reported one injured in the fall of debris from drones intercepted by anti-aircraft defense.
In Lebanon, the other major battlefront of the conflict, the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah claimed new rocket launches against Israel.
On Sunday, the Israeli Army continued bombing the southern outskirts of Beirut, considered a Hezbollah stronghold. An attack near a hospital left five dead and another attack, in the east of the capital, killed three people.
*AFP
