Iran hostilities flare after US strike in strait of Hormuz; supertanker hits mines and catches fire – Middle East crisis live
by Yohannes Lowe (now) and Adam Fulton (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#7824K)
US targets Iran's Larak Island in first exchange of fire in more than a month, sparking reprisals against US forces in the region
Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has called Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a serpent", accusing him of tricking Washington into launching the war.
In Hebrew, Netanyahu openly crows that he suckered the U.S. Administration into a war on Iran on behalf of Israel. Netanyahu explicitly laughs about how he influenced' America through 1,000 hours of airtime on US networks," Araghchi wrote in a post on X.
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