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U.S. President Donald Trump urged different nations to assistance unafraid a captious shipping lane choked disconnected by the warfare with Iran that showed nary signs of slowing connected Saturday (March 14, 2026) arsenic strikes deed the U.S. Embassy successful Baghdad and a large Emirati vigor facility.
Two weeks aft the United States and Israel attacked Iran, the full Gulf portion remained successful the grip of a struggle that has sent shockwaves done the planetary economy.
Iran-Israel warfare updates connected March 14, 2026
The warfare has besides spilled into Lebanon, wherever the Health Ministry said Israeli strikes person killed hundreds of people, arsenic Israel fought the Tehran-backed Hezbollah erstwhile again.
Oil prices person surged by 40% arsenic Iran has choked disconnected the captious Strait of Hormuz and attacked Gulf vigor facilities.
Clouds of achromatic fume roseate connected Saturday (March 14, 2026) implicit Fujairah, location to a large Emirati lipid retention and export terminal, AFP journalists saw, soon aft Iran's subject warned UAE civilians to debar larboard areas.
Washington's Embassy successful Iraq was deed by a drone, information sources told AFP, the 2nd clip it has been targeted successful the war, and the Emirati consulate successful Iraqi Kurdistan was besides struck for the 2nd clip successful a week.
And successful Kuwait, the planetary airdrome was targeted with respective drones "which struck its radar system" but caused nary injuries, the Kuwaiti civilian aviation authorization said.
Having earlier vowed that the U.S. Navy would "very soon" commencement escorting tankers done the Strait of Hormuz, Mr. Trump appeared to telephone for reinforcements connected Saturday (March 14, 2026).
"Many countries... volition beryllium sending War Ships, successful conjunction with the United States of America, to support the Strait unfastened and safe," helium wrote connected Truth Social, saying China, France, Japan, South Korea and the UK would "hopefully" beryllium among them.
He aboriginal repeated the telephone connected societal media, saying that though the US "has beaten" Iran, countries that received lipid via the strait "must instrumentality attraction of that passage, and we volition help".
'As agelong arsenic necessary'
US forces struck Kharg Island connected Friday, from which astir each of Iran's lipid is exported, with Trump saying they had "obliterated each MILITARY target", though sparing its vigor facilities.
Iran had threatened that US-linked lipid and vigor firms would beryllium "turned into a heap of ashes" if they were hit, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi aboriginal repeating the informing and accusing the US of firing rockets astatine Kharg from its bases successful the UAE.
He past called connected Iran's neighbours to expel American forces, saying the US information umbrella was "inviting alternatively than deterring trouble".
Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said the warfare was entering a "decisive phase", though helium cautioned it would "continue arsenic agelong arsenic necessary".
Despite facing superior U.S. and Israeli firepower, Iran appeared determined to combat on.
Blasts were heard by AFP journalists implicit Jerusalem aft the subject detected missiles launched from Iran connected Saturday.
Iran aboriginal said it had launched different rocket salvo, with the Israeli subject saying it had detected the launches.
Qatar evacuated downtown areas and intercepted 2 missiles, with blasts heard by AFP journalists.
The Palestinian Islamist question Hamas urged Iran to refrain from targeting Gulf neighbours, galore of which person supported its cause. It was a uncommon breach betwixt the allies, though Hamas affirmed Tehran's close to support itself.
Iran continued to look dense bombardment with section media reporting strikes successful respective provinces done Saturday, including 1 connected an concern tract successful Isfahan that killed 15 people, according to Fars quality agency. AFP was not capable to verify the toll.
Iran's Health Ministry says much than 1,200 radical person been killed by US and Israeli attacks, numbers that could not beryllium independently verified, portion up to 3.2 cardinal radical person been displaced, according to the UN exile agency.
More than 15,000 targets successful Iran person been deed by the US and Israel, the Pentagon said. A study this week said the archetypal six days unsocial outgo the U.S. $11.3 billion, portion 13 subject unit person died successful the war.
Transition
U.S. media raised the anticipation of American troops connected the crushed successful Iran, with the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reporting the Pentagon had dispatched the Japan-based amphibious battle vessel USS Tripoli to the portion on with astir 2,500 Marines.
In Iran, the country's rulers appeared intent connected showing they would past the warfare and support control, contempt their ultimate person Ali Khamenei being killed connected the opening day.
Khamenei's lad Mojtaba Khamenei was named the caller ultimate leader, but has been absent from nationalist presumption and is reportedly wounded.
Mr. Araghchi insisted connected Saturday that "there is nary occupation with the caller ultimate leader".
Reza Pahlavi, the US-based lad of Iran's past shah, said connected societal media connected Saturday that helium was acceptable to pb a modulation "as soon arsenic the Islamic republic falls".
But Iran's Revolutionary Guards person threatened a dense crackdown connected immoderate anti-government protests. Thousands were killed during wide demonstrations successful January, and a near-total net blackout has been imposed since the warfare began.
'Existential battle'
The warfare has besides sparked different devastating circular of warring betwixt Israel and Hezbollah successful Lebanon.
The Tehran-backed militant radical attacked Israel aft Khamenei's decease and its leader, Naim Qassem, has called the existent struggle an "existential battle".
Israel has responded with aerial and crushed assaults, sidesplitting astatine slightest 826 radical according to the Lebanese authorities.
It has besides issued evacuation orders covering hundreds of quadrate kilometres of Lebanon, displacing hundreds of thousands of radical and prompting warnings of a humanitarian disaster.
An overnight onslaught successful confederate Lebanon killed much than a twelve wellness workers astatine a clinic, wellness authorities said and enactment the full fig of paramedics killed this period by Israel astatine 31.
Late connected Saturday, a Lebanese authoritative told AFP the state was forming a delegation to negociate with Israel but that determination was nary agenda, timing oregon determination yet decided for immoderate talks.
Iran’s caller person warns Strait of Hormuz could beryllium utilized arsenic strategical leverage
Iran’s caller person warns Strait of Hormuz could beryllium utilized arsenic strategical leverage
