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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Vicky Graham |Harry Taylor |Helen Davidson |Ben Smee |Jonathan Yerushalmy |Maya Yang | +14 more
Iran’s parliament has voted to shut down the vital Hormuz shipping channel in retaliation against Donald Trump’s attack on the country, prompting fears of a sharp spike in oil prices that could cause a global recession. A barrel of Brent crude was selling for about $77 on Friday, having risen by more than 10% since mid-June when Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear sites prompted missile strikes from Tehran against Tel Aviv.
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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Maya Yang |Vicky Graham |Harry Taylor |Helen Davidson |Ben Smee |Jonathan Yerushalmy | +9 more
Iran’s parliament has voted to shut down the vital Hormuz shipping channel in retaliation against Donald Trump’s attack on the country, prompting fears of a sharp spike in oil prices that could cause a global recession. A barrel of Brent crude was selling for about $77 on Friday, having risen by more than 10% since mid-June when Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear sites prompted missile strikes from Tehran against Tel Aviv.
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5 days ago | 
msn.com | William Christou |Shah Meer Baloch |Deepa Parent
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Adam Fulton |Amy Sedghi |Joe Coughlan |William Christou |Pjotr Sauer |Ben Doherty
Iran’s Araghchi says it will be ‘very dangerous’ if US gets involved in warIranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said it would be “very, very dangerous for everyone” if the United States becomes actively involved in the war with Israel, reports the Associated Press (AP). He spoke to reporters in Istanbul on his way home from talks in Geneva. Araghchi said American military involvement “would be very unfortunate”.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Joe Coughlan |Tom Ambrose |Harry Taylor |Jason Burke |William Christou | +1 more
Gaza faces 'man-made drought', UNICEF claimsGaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the UN’s children agency has said. “Children will begin to die of thirst … Just 40% of drinking water production facilities remain functional,” Unicef spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva, according to Reuters. It comes a day after Unicef said more than 5,000 children were diagnosed with malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in May.
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1 week ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | William Christou |Deepa Parent |Shah Meer Baloch
Despite a substantial internet blackout, news spread quickly in Iran on Tuesday night: the US was considering joining Israel in its war on Iran. The US president, Donald Trump, wrote on Truth Social: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | William Christou |Deepa Parent |Shah Meer Baloch
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1 week ago | 
inkl.com | William Christou |Deepa Parent |Shah Meer Baloch
Veliasr Square in Tehran on 17 June. A resident estimated ‘more than half’ of the city’s population had left, an estimate the Guardian could not verify. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images As Farhad* and his friends left Tehran, they had plenty of time to survey the destruction. Smoke billowed from rooftops and flames flickered behind them as they inched their way through miles-long traffic to escape Israel’s bombardment of Iran’s capital city.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Joe Coughlan |Cecilia Nowell |Tom Ambrose |Manisha Ganguly |Peter Walker | +6 more
An Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) photograph shows rescuers working at the site of an airstrike on a residential area in Tehran, Iran on Tuesday Photograph: Iranian Red Crescent Society Handout/EPA An Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) photograph shows rescuers working at the site of an airstrike on a residential area in Tehran, Iran on Tuesday Photograph: Iranian Red Crescent Society Handout/EPA Cecilia Nowell (now); Tom Ambrose, Joe Coughlan and Helen Livingstone (earlier) Tue 17 Jun...
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1 week ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | William Christou |Deepa Parent
The stream of wounded in Imam Khomeini hospital in Tehran had been steady since Friday. On Sunday evening it became a flood. A renewed wave of Israeli strikes on Iran’s capital overwhelmed the hospital’s emergency unit, turning it into what one doctor described as a “bloodbath”. “It was a bloodbath. We were overwhelmed by chaos and the screams of grieving family members.
