Fox reports Iran has advanced plans for attacks on Americans
Washington is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and 10,000 more personnel toward the Persian Gulf, and Tehran says the US blockade has cut its imports by 25 per cent.
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Map: The Gulf and Hormuz, marking Strait of Hormuz
Fox reports that Iran is in advanced stages of planning attacks against Americans. The report comes after months of threats, failed mediation and sharp words between Tehran and Washington.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, has offered a bounty on US soldiers. A strike hit the Konark base. Iran's navy chief has vowed to target American vessels near the Strait of Hormuz.
Talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz have stalled. Tehran says the US blockade of Iran must be lifted first.
The US is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and 10,000 more personnel toward the Persian Gulf.
Medicine is in short supply.
Earlier escalations moved Brent quickly and weighed on Asian and US risk sentiment. Equities have mostly felt this standoff through worries about oil-driven inflation. A US response to a plot against Americans would break a pattern in which denied strikes and slipped deadlines have repeatedly pulled Brent's risk premium lower.
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