Tehran : Mehr News Agency reported that US-Israeli forces carried out an attack on the Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran early this morning, but did not provide further details. Two more merchant vessels carrying petroleum products for India are crossing Strait of Hormuz. Indian Navy warships are on standby to provide support to them.
In a brief statement posted on X, the ministry did not provide further details on the cause of the alert. Thailand has reached an agreement with Iran to allow Thai oil vessels safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the Southeast Asian nation’s prime minister said. An agreement has been reached to allow Thai oil tankers to transit safely through the Strait of Hormuz, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said at a press conference, adding the move would ease concerns over fuel imports.
Crews attributed these announcements to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy. A series of explosions shook Tehran in the early hours of Saturday, an AFP journalist said, reporting around 10 intense blasts in the Iranian capital. Iran kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab nations on Friday, including a strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia that US officials said wounded at least 10 US service members, two of them seriously.
The attack on Prince Sultan Air Base also damaged several US refuelling aircraft, said two US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters. One of the officials said two of the troops were seriously wounded. Israel, meanwhile, warned Friday it will expand its attacks on Iran, while the U.S. military also continued striking Iran. President Donald Trump delayed his threat to obliterate Iran’s energy plants over its effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Facing a convulsing stock market, Trump on Thursday extended a deadline for reopening the waterway until April 6, saying Iran asked for the grace period and that talks were going “very well,” despite Iran continuing to publicly insist it is not negotiating with the White House on a 15-point proposal to end the conflict.
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