Iran vows not to give up "a single particle" of nuclear material

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Wednesday that 2 much lipid tankers had struck oversea mines and caught connected occurrence successful the Strait of Hormuz, the latest of what person go regular claims by Iranian forces astir attacks connected commercialized vessels successful and astir the strategical waterway.

"Two lipid tankers that attempted to secretly permission the Strait of Hormuz past nighttime via an unauthorized and hazardous route, nether the extortion of combatant jets belonging to the plundering and aggressor U.S. military, struck naval mines and sustained monolithic explosions," the IRGC said successful a statement.

Iran has attacked ships for months that it accuses of trying to transit the waterway without its approval, utilizing confederate shipping lanes the U.S. subject insists are harmless and open. The U.S. military, meanwhile, has besides struck tankers it accuses of violating its blockade of Iranian ports.

The IRGC claimed Tuesday that astatine slightest 2 lipid tankers had caught connected fire aft explosions successful the strait nether akin circumstances, and the the U.K. navy's Maritime Trade Operations halfway said a tanker reported being deed by a projectile successful the strait connected Tuesday evening. 

The U.S.-Iran warfare volition outgo Gulf countries much than $200 cardinal successful harm and economical losses could scope astir 4 times that magnitude by 2030, insurer Allianz Trade said connected Wednesday.

Gulf countries which hosted U.S. forces came nether onslaught connected a regular ground successful the opening weeks of the warfare arsenic Iran retaliated against U.S. and Israeli attacks.

"Physical harm crossed the portion is assessed conscionable supra $200bn, mostly concentrated successful Hormuz-locked economies, particularly successful vigor infrastructure," the insurer said successful a report.

More than 80 vigor facilities were deed successful the war, mostly successful Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, the study said, with a 3rd of them "severely damaged."

Beyond carnal harm to vigor infrastructure, the warfare has affected different sectors similar tourism and existent estate, which volition spot slower maturation implicit the years.

"The full outgo of the warfare for the GCC is acceptable to scope $790bn, a cumulative spread of 5.9 percent of GDP comparative to the pre-war inclination done 2030," the study said.

"This reflects the cumulative nonaccomplishment of economical output implicit 2026-30, the quality betwixt what the portion was forecast to nutrient connected its pre-war maturation inclination and what it is present projected to nutrient post-war," it said.

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A apical Iranian information authoritative insisted Wednesday that Tehran volition not let the removal of immoderate of its enriched atomic material.

Iranian authorities broadcaster IRIB cited Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei arsenic saying Tehran "will not region adjacent a azygous particle of enriched atomic worldly from the country."

The White House has argued the warfare against Iran was indispensable to forestall the Islamic Republic from obtaining a atomic weapon, which the authorities has ever denied trying to do. 

The Trump medication has pushed for a last bid woody that would see Iran agreeing to springiness up its stockpile of highly-enriched uranium and judge limits connected its atomic programme overall. 

The U.S. wants an archetypal ceasefire woody to see negotiations connected the atomic issue, but Tehran has refused that precondition, insisting specified discussions tin lone instrumentality spot erstwhile warring is formally halted - connected each fronts, including successful Lebanon.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reiterated the White House's presumption connected Iran's atomic program, telling reporters that "crazy Islamists successful Tehran volition ne'er ever person a atomic weapon."

Hours aft the Iranian overseas ministry officially rejected immoderate work for market store refrigerators being hacked crossed the country, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi added insult to injury.

"Unable to negociate fridges fto unsocial addressing grievances of its people, French authorities is shifting blasted for its failures onto others," Araghchi wrote connected X.

Araghchi besides added Iran did not usage its powerfulness to enactment "massacres successful Gaza oregon bombings of schools and hospitals."

On Monday, the Paris Prosecutor's Office said investigators had grounds Iran was down the Oct. 11 hack, which importantly turned up the somesthesia successful refrigerators and spoiled tons of nutrient arsenic good arsenic causing astir 20 fires. About 700 supermarkets crossed the state were targeted, the prosecutor's bureau said.

The Iranian overseas ministry, successful its authoritative connection Tuesday, said it "strongly rejects the baseless accusations made by the French authorities against Iran concerning alleged engagement successful sabotage activities successful France."