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Brent crude rose $3.62, or 3.5%, to $108.23 a barrel by 22:14 GMT as trading opened for the week, and WTI rose $3.15 to $103.20, after the shutdown of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, new Houthi strikes on the kingdom and the collapse of the Iran-Gulf Hormuz meeting. Brent held near $108 on Monday morning.
Demonstrations broke out in Syria over sharp fuel price increases, with gasoline up roughly 30% and diesel up roughly 40%, a jump attributed to global fuel-price pressure stemming from the ongoing U.S.-Iran war.
A senior Israeli official said the Lebanese army is 'very afraid to move against Hezbollah' and is 'dealing with cosmetics,' leaving the work to the IDF, while Israeli defence officials said Beirut fears a return to civil war.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said the regional meeting set for Monday in Salalah had been postponed 'in the interests of consensus.' Iran's Foreign Ministry said the delay was requested by some regional countries, and spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei later said Saudi Arabia had asked for it; Bahrain had already said it would not attend.
At the Irish Open golf championship, Trump said the US would 'ultimately get out' of Iran 'unless we decide to stay and keep the oil like Venezuela,' adding that Venezuelan revenue had 'paid for the war many times.' He repeated that the war could end right after the midterms and that gasoline prices would 'drop like a rock.'
U.S. Central Command commander Admiral Brad Cooper told CBS News he is "not concerned at all" about shortages of American missile interceptors amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, saying U.S. forces in the region remain "well armed and ready" despite months of sustained Iranian missile and drone fire.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan agreed to 'put aside the past' in talks on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in New Delhi, the highest-level Iran-UAE contact since the war began.
Buyers and traders told Reuters the East-West pipeline outage could affect about 4% of global oil supply if pumping does not resume within days, with repair estimates of five to six weeks; sources said Saudi Arabia had only five to seven days of oil stored at Yanbu.
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The New York Times reported that Iranian hardliners, allegedly led by Basij chief Hossein Taeb, launched attacks on Hormuz shipping in early July without authorization from President Masoud Pezeshkian or IRGC chief Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, derailing a US-Iran peace memorandum that had been under negotiation.
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Israeli forces hit al-Dabsha Hill on the outskirts of Nabatieh twice in under 30 minutes, Lebanon's National News Agency said, as artillery intermittently shelled the Ali al-Taher forest and nearby towns including Zawtar al-Sharqiyah.
An Iran-Oman understanding sets the basis for eventually reopening the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian protocols but does not provide for an immediate reopening, which depends on the US meeting Tehran's conditions, Tasnim reported; the southern route the US favoured would be closed. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the deal does not 'in any way' signal a reopening.
A vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz was hit by an unknown projectile late on Saturday, UKMTO said in warning 134-26; a fire later broke out on board and local authorities helped evacuate the crew.
President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on X: 'If Americans are warriors, let them face our valiant military forces. Why wage war on civilian infrastructure, food supplies, and livelihoods?' He accused Washington of denying Iranians water, food and medicine and said: 'Iran won't surrender.'
Saudi Civil Defence said a projectile fell in al-Tuwal governorate in Jazan, wounding two people and damaging a mosque, several buildings and vehicles; Saudi Arabia blamed the Houthis, who said they had targeted a military base.
Iranian state media reported two explosions off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Early on Sep 13, Qeshm's governor said an Iranian commercial vessel had been struck near Hengam Island and the Qeshm coast, killing one person and wounding three, and state TV blamed the 'US terrorist enemy.'
Bahrain said it would not join any group meeting that includes Iran before diplomatic relations are restored, citing Iranian attacks and the strike on Saudi Arabia's pipeline, and said any Hormuz arrangement must guarantee transit 'without discrimination, fees, or permits.' Pezeshkian had said Gulf ministers would meet in Muscat on Monday to sign off on an Iran-Oman shipping route.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told the BRICS summit in New Delhi that the war in the Middle East and Gulf 'has caused serious losses to people across the region and does not serve the common interests of the international community,' and said China was willing to work with BRICS partners to play a role in achieving peace.
Iraq closed the Shalamcheh, al-Shib and Mandali crossings with Iran, officials said, as part of efforts to track those behind the drone attack launched from Maysan province on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline. Reuters had first reported the Shalamcheh closure overnight.
Asked in Dublin whether Iran was responsible for the drone attack that shut Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, Trump said 'probably, they are,' and said the Houthis had 'called us' asking the US not to get involved in Yemen. Asked about moving shipping through Hormuz, he said everything would 'work out just fine.'
President Joseph Aoun, with army commander Gen. Rodolphe Haykal, made an unannounced visit to Nabatieh and Zawtar al-Gharbiya near the Ali al-Taher ridge, pledging to secure an Israeli withdrawal and rebuild the south and telling residents the state would meet their needs 'so that you stay here.'
The US has asked tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz to sail only at set times to be sure of military protection after Iran stepped up night attacks, the Financial Times reported. Air defence offered since May for ships hugging the Omani coast was cut to two daily time slots around the start of September, according to emails from the US naval coordination centre.
Iran used high-resolution Chinese satellite images of Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti air base for its July attack that killed three US soldiers, US officials told The Wall Street Journal. They did not identify the suppliers or allege direct Beijing involvement; Chinese officials pushed back and demanded proof.
The next round of US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks, planned for Rome next week, was pushed to October, a US official said, citing scheduling constraints, particularly the UN General Assembly; Axios reported the Jewish holidays and a Paris conference on the Lebanese army were also factors. The two countries' ambassadors were still expected to meet at the State Department next week.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi ordered an urgent investigation into the attack on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline; his office later said a drone had been launched from Maysan province, dismissed the province's operations commander and set up an inquiry into the command.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry condemned the attack on the East-West pipeline 'by several drones coming from Iraq' and said it would not respond for now, 'to allow the Iraqi authorities the opportunity to take measures to prevent attacks launched from its territory.'
Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry said it had suspended the East-West pipeline as a precaution after the line was 'subjected to multiple attacks' on Thursday that injured several people; US officials said pump stations were hit. The pipeline carries crude to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, the kingdom's main export route while Hormuz is closed.
The Saudi-backed government's armed forces spokesman said a bombing campaign had begun in what he called the 'kill box', the areas that had fallen to the Houthis from Mocha to Bab al-Mandeb, and warned civilians away from the Taiz-Mocha road. Over the next two days the government said its jets destroyed Houthi vehicles, weapons and fighters in Mocha and Dhubab.
At a Pentagon ceremony marking 25 years since the 9/11 attacks, Trump saluted troops working 'to ensure the world's number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, will never, ever have a nuclear weapon.' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said: 'We control the strait. We will finish this fight.'
An official from Yemen's internationally recognized government said the Houthis had taken Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea after seizing Perim, completing their hold on the Bab al-Mandeb approaches. Government and Houthi officials confirmed the capture to AP on Sep 14.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said a meeting in Oman on Monday would brief Iraq and Gulf states on an Iran-Oman understanding on temporary shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, adding that 'Iran remains committed to ensuring the security of navigation in the strait.'
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said maritime navigation is safe for all companies except Saudi vessels, which will only be allowed through Bab al-Mandeb when the blockade on Yemen ends, and pledged to 'enforce blockade for blockade and escalation for escalation.'
The International Energy Agency said the global supply deficit would worsen this year, with world oil inventories falling a further 95 million barrels last month, and that it does not expect Gulf producers' supplies to fully recover until next year.
Houthi fighters swept south from Mocha through Dhubab and Murad, the last coastal town in government hands, and advanced onto Perim (Mayyun) Island at the mouth of the Bab al-Mandeb, Reuters reported citing four government sources. A government military official said 'everything that was under our control on the western coast has fallen.'
Israeli forces withdrew from the Ali al-Taher heights and repositioned to rear lines in the Shaqif area, Israel Army Radio reported; the military said it would keep fire control over the heights and confront any Hezbollah attempt to return.
Average US diesel prices passed $6 a gallon for the first time on record, according to GasBuddy data released Thursday and cited by Reuters, beating the previous week's record of $5.85.
The State Department said the US was taking action under Operation Economic Outcast against Kataib Hezbollah, Hezbollah and the financial networks that sustain Iran's regional campaign, calling them instruments of 'violence and subversion' that threaten Iraq, Lebanon, US personnel and global energy flows.
The master of a vessel reported seeing four unknown projectiles strike two unidentified vessels about 4 nautical miles west of Khasab, on Oman's Musandam peninsula, setting one on fire, UKMTO said. The status of the second vessel was unknown.
The next round of US-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon will be held in Rome next week over two days, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel; L'Orient Today, citing Israeli media, put the dates at Sept. 15 and 16. The State Department urged Beirut to draw up a plan to disarm Hezbollah across Lebanon.
More than 100 US military advisers are in Saudi Arabia providing intelligence and targeting support for the kingdom's campaign against the Houthis, as part of a newly formed joint forces command, CNN reported citing five sources; one US official put the number at about 200. The US is not taking part in strikes.
The IRGC navy said it struck a 'Saildrone-type' US unmanned surface vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, 'thwarting its aggressive mission,' and said Washington had deployed unmanned vessels to the strait in recent days. There was no immediate US comment.
The IDF said it used more than 1,100 tons of explosives to destroy two tunnels running over 2 km beneath the Ali al-Taher ridge near Nabatieh, which it called the nerve center of Hezbollah's Badr division; the USGS recorded the blast as a magnitude 4.1 tremor. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said it completed Israel's security zone in southern Lebanon.
US Central Command said its forces had redirected 96 commercial ships and allowed more than 50 vessels carrying humanitarian supplies through since the blockade of Iranian ports was reimposed in mid-July.
Iran is assembling liquid- and solid-fuel ballistic missiles from stockpiled components at several underground sites, including the Khojir complex, and is building new underground plants to avoid being struck again, US and Middle Eastern officials told The Wall Street Journal.
Brent crude futures spiked to $109.20 a barrel on Thursday, from $105.26 at midday, and settled up 6.3% at $107.63; WTI topped $100 for the first time since May and closed at $103.82. The moves followed the biggest wave of attacks on Gulf shipping of the war and the Houthi capture of Mocha.
Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam said navigation and trade in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb 'remain safe and uninterrupted' and called the group's offensive 'defensive' and limited to specified targets; its shipping coordination centre said its ban on Saudi vessels stays in place.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said remote imagery showed 'some indications that there is movement around this construction site' at Pickaxe Mountain near Natanz, but that the agency had no concrete information on activities there and has never sent inspectors inside.
Iran temporarily suspended a 10% charge on freight fees for foreign vessels carrying oil, gas and liquid petroleum products to and from the country, Fars reported, until the government approves a list of products subject to the charge.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and said he hopes for a future trilateral meeting including a president of Lebanon, stating: 'My dream is for the president of Israel and the president of Cyprus to meet together with the president of Lebanon here.'
Houthi forces took control of the Red Sea city of Mocha as government-aligned troops pulled back, Reuters reported citing three Yemeni government sources; AFP witnesses saw fighters entering the city, and a military source said the Houthis also seized Zuqar Island in the southern Red Sea.
Iran's overnight missile strikes on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base damaged multiple US aircraft, CBS News reported, citing sources with direct knowledge: about eight F-15s suffered light damage and returned to service, and an A-10 lost a wing. No US deaths were reported and US forces fired more than 30 Patriot interceptors.
Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior advisers have privately warned Trump that Iran could hold out against the blockade and military pressure, and that the war could last through the end of his term in January 2029, The Wall Street Journal reported. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
IRNA reported a loud explosion on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, and Fars reported multiple explosions in Sirik and Minab County; Hormozgan officials said the sounds came from the sea, and IRNA later said 'several areas' of Sirik were hit by 'enemy' projectiles.
Trump told reporters: 'I think war is going to end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any longer. They're desperate to try and affect the election.' He said the US was not looking for a deal with Iran but that negotiations 'could happen.'
The IAEA Board of Governors passed a US, British, French and German resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council over its refusal to allow inspections, by 23 votes to 3 with 8 abstentions; Russia, China and Niger voted against. It was the first such referral in 20 years; Iran's UN mission called it a 'biased, political resolution' and Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said it could not 'achieve anything in the Security Council.'
An IRGC spokesman said a restricted maritime area running from Chabahar into parts of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea would be announced, with exact coordinates to follow, and that any ship passing through it would be sanctioned.
UKMTO said several merchant vessels were hit by 'disabling fire' in the northern Gulf and Gulf of Oman. One seafarer was killed and another was missing aboard the products tanker Hercules Star at anchor off Dubai, its charterer said, and Iraqi officials said the tanker New Andros, carrying 2 million barrels of fuel oil, caught fire after a drone strike in Iraqi waters.
Brent crossed $100 a barrel early Wednesday for the first time since July 24, reaching $100.07 by 07:21 GMT, and settled up 3.4% at $101.21, its highest close since May 22; WTI settled at $96.05. Goldman Sachs said intensifying attacks on shipping raised the risk of oil above $120.
MarineTraffic data compiled by Al Jazeera showed 42 tankers waiting to transit the Strait of Hormuz as of Sep 7, 18 of them carrying oil with a combined capacity of about 11.1 million barrels.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Colombia: 'Iran continues to try to hit U.S. naval ships, and for every time they do that or try to do that, they're going to lose tankers.' He repeated on Sep 9 that Iran 'pays a price in tankers' and said Washington aimed to squeeze Tehran economically.
The IRGC said it struck the destroyers DDG-119 and DDG-53 and then that its navy hit 'two American vessels and 8 tankers', plus 10 other 'violating ships' in a prohibited zone of the strait. CENTCOM called the destroyer claim 'completely false', saying no US warship was struck and all IRGC attempts failed.
Iran fired ballistic missiles at US forces at Jordan's al-Azraq (Muwaffaq Salti) air base in retaliation for the US tanker strikes; Jordan said it intercepted 18 of 20 and two fell in open areas. The IRGC claimed heavy damage to maintenance and shelter areas for F-35, F-16 and F-15 jets, while a US official said the barrage caused no US casualties.
CENTCOM said US forces struck and destroyed the M/T Kaviz, Charminar, Horizon 1 and Riesco in the Gulf of Oman and the M/T Derya near Kharg Island after the IRGC twice fired ballistic missiles at a US Navy warship over two days; crews were told to abandon ship first and no Americans were hurt. CENTCOM later released video of the Riesco sinking.
The Treasury sanctioned 36 entities, including 27 Iranian airlines, saying Tehran uses the aviation sector to 'move weapons, personnel and illicit cargo.' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned anyone doing business with Iran's remaining airlines, 'all of which we sanctioned today,' risked being cut off from the global financial system.
The IRGC navy said it captured a 'modern' unmanned US submersible at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, and Iranian state media identified it as an Anduril Dive-LD. A US official told Al Jazeera an older underwater drone surveying regional waters had malfunctioned more than a day earlier and carried no classified equipment.
Houthi attacks early Tuesday hit 'civilian and economic facilities' in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran, wounding 73 people including women and children, the Saudi-led coalition said. The Energy Ministry said fires broke out at several oil facilities and utilities and some operations were temporarily halted; the Houthis said they fired dozens of missiles and drones at Aramco sites in Najran and Abha, a Jazan industrial hub and King Khalid Air Base.
Brent rose about 2% to $99.05 a barrel in early Tuesday trading after closing Monday at $97.92, and WTI rose 2.8% to $94.04, after US officials told The Wall Street Journal Iran had tried to attack Navy ships on Monday following a weekend missile attack on a carrier. No US ships were hit.
Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei wrote that 'economic warfare will be met by a maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf to the blockade perimeter' and that Iran's posture toward US warships and bases had been 'fundamentally recalibrated.' He had announced plans for a restricted zone south of the Strait of Hormuz the day before.
Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari told CNN that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is Doha's top priority, warning the world faces 'an industrial catastrophe if this continues' and that closing waterways must not become 'the new normal in war.'
A senior US official told Al Jazeera the strait is fully open and under US Navy control after special operations forces removed an estimated 80 naval mines since April, and that about 20 US vessels in the blockade were escorting commercial ships. The official said Washington was satisfied with current oil and gas flows.
A Hezbollah operative opened fire at close range on Israeli troops in the Beaufort ridge area of southern Lebanon, lightly wounding two soldiers before being killed, the IDF said. The military said it then struck Hezbollah weapons depots and command centers.
Aramco oil facilities in Jizan were struck on Monday, a month after an earlier attack disrupted production at the refinery there, the Financial Times reported, citing two people familiar with the matter; damage was being assessed. Saudi Arabia did not acknowledge the attack and no group claimed it, though ISW assessed a Houthi missile strike was likely.
Iranian crude held on tankers outside the US blockade fell from roughly 90 million barrels in mid-July to about 29 million barrels, according to Kpler data cited in the ISW-Critical Threats Iran Update for Sep 7.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on X that American oil and gas companies in the Gulf share the exposure of the region's 'sprawling, accessible' energy infrastructure, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to destroy Iranian tankers. In a closed session of parliament he said the era of 'proportionate responses' was over.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei warned of 'consequences' if South Korea takes part in maritime operations in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, saying any country that does so would be regarded as directly supporting the US attacks on Iran. Seoul had said it was weighing 'contributions' to freedom of navigation.