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Iran threatens painful response if US renews attacks
U.S. officials also weighed ground forces and a new coalition to reopen the strait as the closure choked off 20% of global oil and gas supplies.
- Aerospace Force Commander Majid Mousavi threatened "long and painful strikes" on United States regional positions and warships on Thursday, warning that any new American attack would trigger severe retaliation.
- Despite a ceasefire in place since April 8, Iran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz in response to a United States naval blockade, choking off 20% of global oil and gas supplies.
- President Donald Trump received a briefing Thursday on fresh military strike options against Iran as the administration faces a Friday deadline under the 1973 War Powers Resolution to justify continuing hostilities.
- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei defended the strait's closure as legitimate under international law on Thursday, while the United Arab Emirates banned its citizens from traveling to Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq.
- Global energy prices remain volatile, with Brent crude hitting more than $126 before slipping to around $114, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that prolonged disruption risks increasing global poverty.
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Iran threatens painful response if US renews attacks
Iran said it would respond with "long and painful strikes" on U.S. positions if Washington renewed attacks and restated its claim to the Strait of Hormuz, complicating U.S. plans for a coalition to reopen the waterway.
Iran threatens painful response if U.S. renews attacks
Iran said on Thursday it would respond with “long and painful strikes” on U.S. positions if Washington renewed attacks, and also reasserted its control over the Strait of Hormuz, complicating U.S. plans for a coalition to reopen the waterway.
Iran threatens strikes on US bases, warships amid attack fears
Iran has warned it will launch “long and painful” strikes on US regional positions if Washington carries out even limited military action, as tensions sharply escalate on Thursday, April 30. A senior Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) official said American bases and warships would be targeted, responding to an Axios report that the US has prepared a “short and powerful” wave of strikes on Iran. Pentagon spending on Iran war exceeds UN’s …
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elcorreogallego.esWith the bombs stopped, Iran's rivalry with the United States and Israel is expressed in words. Tehran has said that it will respond to Washington with "prolonged and painful attacks" if it decides to resume the military aggression. Iran's supreme leader, Mojtaba Jameneí, has celebrated in a speech read on television the beginning of "a new chapter" in the Strait of Ormuz and in the Persian Gulf, to whose Arab States it has augurs a "bright futu…
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