Trump Tells Europe ‘Get Your Own Oil,’ Iran Hits an Oil Tanker Off Dubai
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President Donald Trump. (photo: Intercept)
His comments came after a night of continued fighting. Iran attacked and set on fire a massive Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai overnight, raising concerns about leakage, but on Tuesday city officials said the blaze had been extinguished "with no oil spill occurring or any injuries recorded."
Early Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense said it was defending the country against missiles and drones fired by Iran.
As Gulf states increasingly suffer the fallout from the war, with Saudi Arabia also reporting drone attacks overnight, Iran's foreign minister stressed the strikes were against U.S. targets, not "brotherly" countries.
Meanwhile, a wave of attacks was reported in central Israel, with the Israeli military saying rescuers were on the way to the scenes of impact and Israeli media reporting injuries.
The Israeli military said it had completed a series of strikes on government infrastructure in Tehran. It also pushed ahead with its invasion of southern Lebanon, saying it targeted weapons infrastructure belonging to the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
Israel also reported more losses in Lebanon, announcing three more of its soldiers were killed. More than 1,200 people in Lebanon have been killed by nearly a month of Israel's attacks, according to the Lebanese government.