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Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday, sending millions of residents into bomb shelters.
This comes as the United States (US)-Israel war with Iran entered its sixth day and just hours after moves to halt America’s air assault were blocked in Washington.
Republican senators in Washington voted against a motion aimed at stopping the air campaign and requiring that military action be authorised by Congress, leaving President Donald Trump’s power to direct the war largely unbound, as the conflict continues to widen across the Middle East and beyond.
The US Senate voted 53 to 47 not to advance the resolution, largely along party lines, with all but one Republican voting against the procedural motion and all but one Democrat supporting it.
The US-Iran war has widened sharply, with a US submarine sinking an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 80 people, and NATO air defences destroying an Iranian ballistic missile fired towards Turkey.
The escalation came as the powerful son of Iran’s slain supreme leader emerged as a frontrunner to succeed him, suggesting Tehran was not about to buckle to pressure from the US and Israel’s military campaign that has killed hundreds and convulsed global markets.
The missile incident is the first time that Turkey, which borders Iran and has NATO’s second-largest military has been drawn into the conflict, but US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there was no sense that it would trigger the Atlantic alliance’s collective-defence clause.
The war continued to paralyse shipping through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, choking off vital Middle East oil and gas flows. Trump has pledged to provide insurance and naval escorts for ships to contain soaring costs, with oil prices rising on Thursday.
At least 200 vessels remain anchored off the coast, according to Reuters estimates.
The US Navy will escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as It can” but is focused on the conflict for now, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Fox News on Wednesday.
“No, not yet … We’ll do that as soon as we can. Right now, our Navy, and of course, our military, is focused on other things, which is disarming this Iranian regime,” Wright said, when asked if any commercial vessels had requested US Navy assistance in the Gulf.
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