Gas price rises as Iranian drone hits tanker off Dubai and war grinds on

Iranian media said Tuesday that an Israeli oregon U.S. airstrike had taken a h2o desalination works connected the Persian Gulf land of Qeshm offline.

According to the Iranian authorities affiliated Borna News, the caput of the Ministry of Health's Environmental and Labor Health Center said each drinking h2o connected Qeshm is supplied by desalination and that the onslaught had taken the works retired of service.  Borna cited the curate arsenic saying repairs were not imaginable successful the abbreviated term.

There were unconfirmed reports that a powerfulness works connected the aforesaid land was besides deed by a strike, and powerfulness and desalination plants are often linked.

Qeshm is Iran's largest land successful the Persian Gulf, home to astir 150,000 people according to the United Nations.

President Trump warned connected Monday that, unless Iran makes a woody to extremity the war, "we volition reason our beauteous 'stay' successful Iran by blowing up and wholly obliterating each of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and perchance each desalinization plants!), which we person purposefully not yet 'touched.'"

Kuwait's Army said Monday that an detonation apt caused by an Iranian drone had caused superior harm to 1 of the country's powerfulness and h2o desalination plants, sidesplitting a worker.

Iran and astir Persian Gulf states trust heavy connected desalination plants to nutrient caller h2o for everything from harvest irrigation to quality consumption, making them captious civilian infrastructure and a large constituent of vulnerability successful conflict.

According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Kuwait relies connected desalination for 90% of its drinking water, with astatine slightest fractional a twelve plants operating to conscionable the need.

An Iranian onslaught sparked a occurrence connected a Kuwaiti lipid tanker astatine Dubai Port, authorities media reported connected Tuesday section time.

"The Kuwaiti elephantine crude lipid tanker was subjected to a nonstop and malicious Iranian onslaught portion successful the anchorage country of Dubai Port successful the UAE," authoritative quality bureau KUNA reported, citing Kuwait's state-owned lipid company. The Kuwaiti Very Large Crude Oil Carrier (VLCC) Al-Salmi was targeted, according to authorities media.

KUNA reported determination were nary injuries and that Dubai authorities confirmed specialized maritime firefighting units were continuing to suppress the fire.

Damage to the Kuwait-flagged Al-Salmi crude lipid tanker, pursuing a reported Iranian drone strike, is seen disconnected the seashore of Dubai amid the U.S.-Israeli warfare with Iran, March 31, 2026. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation/Handout/Reuters

According to KUNA, the tanker was afloat laden astatine the clip of the attack, which had caused "material harm to the ship's hull" and "the anticipation of an lipid spill successful the surrounding waters."

Kuwait's subject besides said connected Tuesday its aerial defenses were responding to "hostile rocket and drone attacks," according to a post connected X.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the warfare connected Iran had achieved much than fractional its aims, without putting a timeline connected erstwhile it would end.

"It's decidedly beyond the halfway point. But I don't privation to enactment a docket connected it," Netanyahu told Newsmax successful an interview.

He added that helium meant the warfare was much than halfway "in presumption of missions, not needfully successful presumption of time."

When asked astir the program to unfastened the Strait of Hormuz, Netanyahu said determination are subject solutions that the United States is leading, but declined to spell into details, including regarding whether the U.S. would nonstop troops to effort to instrumentality Kharg Island.

Speaking of a semipermanent and post-war solution, the premier curate floated the thought "to divert each the vigor pipelines, lipid and gas, from the Gulf wherever the Iranians person a geographic chokepoint to crossed Saudi Arabia, to the Red Sea … and up determination to the Mediterranean larboard — our ports successful Israel."

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The Israeli subject said Tuesday that 4 of its soldiers had been killed successful combat successful confederate Lebanon, wherever its forces are clashing with Iran-backed Hezbollah.

A subject connection named 3 soldiers from the aforesaid battalion who "fell during combat" and a abstracted connection said different soldier, who hadn't yet been publically named, had died successful the aforesaid incident.

Another worker was severely wounded and a reservist moderately wounded, according to the 2nd statement.

In addition, the U.N. ngo successful Lebanon said 2 Indonesian peacekeepers were killed erstwhile "an detonation of chartless root destroyed their vehicle" and 2 different peacekeepers were wounded, 1 seriously. A 3rd peacekeeper was killed Sunday.

The Israeli subject said aboriginal Tuesday that it had opened an probe to find if it oregon Hezbollah was responsible.

France, a cardinal subordinate successful Lebanon, called for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting, which was subsequently scheduled for Tuesday. 

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A apt onslaught by the United States deed the cardinal Iranian metropolis of Isfahan aboriginal Tuesday, sending a monolithic fireball into the sky. President Trump, who has insisted this week that talks with Iran are making advancement toward a imaginable bid deal, shared video of the onslaught connected Isfahan, with fiery explosions lighting up the nighttime sky.

Isfahan is location to 1 of 3 atomic facilities attacked by the U.S. subject successful June 2025, and it is believed to beryllium wherever astatine slightest some of Iran's highly enriched uranium is stored, perchance buried aft the June strikes.

A outer representation taken conscionable earlier the 12-day warfare successful June betwixt Iran and Israel suggests Tehran transferred a truckload of highly enriched uranium to the installation astatine Isfahan.

The representation from an Airbus Defense and Space Pléiades Neo outer shows a motortruck loaded with 18 bluish containers going into a passageway astatine the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center connected June 9, 2025. Israel launched the warfare connected June 13. The United States joined, bombing the Isfahan installation on with 2 different atomic sites connected June 22.

François Diaz-Maurin, an expert with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, wrote that the motortruck apt carried 18 secured containers of arsenic overmuch arsenic 534 kilograms (1,177 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60% purity, a short, method measurement from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security besides suggested the conveyance was transferring the highly enriched uranium. The French paper Le Monde archetypal reported connected the images. 

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Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Trump to proceed prosecuting the warfare against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn't been weakened capable by the monthlong U.S.-led bombing campaign, according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials.

After backstage grumbling astatine the commencement of the warfare that they weren't fixed capable beforehand announcement of the U.S.-Israeli attack, and complaining the U.S. had ignored their warnings that the warfare would person devastating consequences for the full region, immoderate of the determination allies are making the lawsuit to the White House that the infinitesimal offers a historical accidental to cripple Tehran's clerical regularisation erstwhile and for all.

Officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain person conveyed successful backstage conversations that they don't privation the subject cognition to extremity until determination are important changes successful the Iranian enactment oregon there's a melodramatic displacement successful Iranian behavior, according to the officials who weren't authorized to remark publically and spoke connected the information of anonymity.

The propulsion from the Gulf nations comes arsenic Mr. Trump vacillates betwixt claiming that Iran's decimated enactment is acceptable to settee the struggle and threatening to further escalate the warfare if a woody is not reached soon.