Washington/Tehran, March 5 -- The conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran entered its sixth day on Thursday, with tensions escalating inside Iran and across the wider Middle East, including the Gulf, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Iran has threatened global shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil transit route, raising concerns about wider disruptions to international trade. At the same time, fighting and military operations have spread across multiple fronts in the region. After a US submarine sank the Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean, President Donald Trump, during a meeting at the White House, rated the performance of the US in the US-Israeli war with Iran as a 15 on a scale of 10, and vowed to push on.
Iran said it had ...