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Bloomberg

Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with death, in a statement published on Sunday by Iran’s Fars and IRNA news agencies.
Netanyahu would be pursued and killed, the IRGC statement said.
The announcement followed mutual overnight attacks in the war between Iran, Israel and the United States.
The current round of hostilities began when Israel and the US launched a large-scale offensive against Iran on February 28.
Tehran has retaliated with strikes against Israel as well as Gulf states allied with Washington.

Iran’s top diplomat said his country is ready to consider any proposal that includes “a complete end” to the US-Israel war on the Islamic Republic, according to an interview with an Arab daily.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was quoted as saying by the London-based Al-Araby al-Jadeed that mediations by Iran’s neighbours were under way to de-escalate and present “ideas to end the war”.
He gave no indication of whether progress has been made.
Araghchi also insisted that Iran’s attacks on its Arab neighbours were limited to US bases and assets. He said Tehran is ready to establish a joint committee with its neighbours to investigate such attacks.


He also told MS NOW that “it is clear” missiles that hit Kharg Island – vital to Iran’s oil network – on Friday came from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The strike on the island in the Persian Gulf left its oil infrastructure intact and vessels were still seen arriving and loading up with fuel, according to satellite imagery posted on Saturday and Sunday by the platform TankerTrackers.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Iran was ready to make a deal to end the war but the US wants better terms, signalling no let-up in a conflict that has brought shipping in the strategic Strait of Hormuz to a near standstill and upended energy markets.
Trump also called on other countries to send warships to keep open the waterway through which about a fifth of the world’s oil exports flow.
“Iran wants to make a deal, and I don’t want to make it because the terms aren’t good enough yet,” Trump told NBC, adding that a “very solid” agreement would have to include a commitment by Tehran to abandon nuclear ambitions.
The UAE said on Sunday it was intercepting missiles and drones from Iran, telling residents that blasts heard in parts of Dubai were the projectiles being shot down.

It said it has engaged 1,600 drones and more than 300 missiles launched by Iran since the conflict began.
Anwar Gargash, a senior foreign policy adviser to UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, said the country “has the right to self-defence in the face of this terrorist aggression imposed upon it, yet it continues to prioritise reason”.
Oil-loading operations at Fujairah, a key UAE port, resumed on Sunday after a drone strike and fire forced a halt to exports the day before, according to people familiar with the situation. They asked not to be identified as they were not authorised to comment.
Fujairah, which lies just outside the Strait of Hormuz, is a major hub for both crude and fuel products, and has taken on increased significance for both the UAE and global markets because it is one of the few Gulf export outlets that bypasses the waterway.
Loading had been halted as a precaution while damage was being assessed.
Abu Dhabi authorities also said they contained a fire that broke out at the Ruwais Industrial Complex following a drone strike on March 10.

The Saudi Defence Ministry reported on Sunday that its forces intercepted 14 drones over the Riyadh region and in the eastern part of the country, home to many of Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.
The ministry provided no further details.
Iran’s Fars news agency denied the attack on Saudi Arabia, saying it was not linked to Iran.
“The Saudi government should make efforts to uncover the origin of the attacks,” Fars said.
Bahrain sounded sirens and urged residents to remain in safe areas.
Iran said it launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel, where Foreign Minister Israel Katz has described the war as entering its “victory phase”.
He also said the war, now in its third week, would last “as long as required”.
Domestic pressure is building on Trump as the war causes chaos in the Middle East and global oil prices rise to about US$100 a barrel because of Iran’s effective closure of Hormuz.
Trump has dismissed concerns over rising petrol prices in the US, saying they will fall once the fighting ends.
The conflict has left about 3,750 people dead across the region since it began on February 28, according to tolls from governments and non-governmental organisations.
The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said more than 3,000 people were killed in the last two weeks in Iran.
Lebanon’s government said around 700 people have died in Israeli attacks on the country in a parallel war the Jewish state is waging against Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Dozens have died across the Gulf and in Israel, while the US has lost 11 service members.

On Saturday, Washington told Americans to leave Iraq immediately, citing the “significant threat posed by Iran-aligned terrorist militia groups”.
That came after the Associated Press reported a missile hit a helipad within the compound of the US embassy in Baghdad.
Trump said that even though Iran’s military was “already destroyed 100 per cent” it was “easy” for Tehran to continue threatening ships with drones, mines and short-range missiles. The US, he said, “will be bombing the hell out of” Iran’s shoreline to try to counter that.
Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, said the strait was only shut to ships from “enemies”.
There have been 16 reported attacks on vessels in and around Hormuz since the war began, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations.


France has drafted a plan to end the war in Lebanon that would require the government there to recognise Israel, Axios reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. It said Lebanon accepted the proposal as a starting point, while Israel and the US are reviewing it.
Jordan, which also houses US troops and aircraft, said on Saturday it intercepted 79 ballistic missiles and drones in the past week.
Air defences failed to stop another six projectiles. Nine people were injured over that period, the Jordanian military said.
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE and Kuwait have all had to curb crude production because of Hormuz’s de facto closure, while Qatar has halted operations for liquefied natural gas. It is one of the world’s top three suppliers of the fuel.
Additional reporting by dpa, Associated Press


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Before the threat, US President Donald Trump said Tehran wanted ‘to make a deal, I don’t want to because the terms aren’t good enough yet’


Before the threat, US President Donald Trump said Tehran wanted ‘to make a deal, I don’t want to because the terms aren’t good enough yet’.


Iran’s Revolutionary Guards issue death threat for Israel’s Netanyahu

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Before the threat, US President Donald Trump said Tehran wanted ‘to make a deal, I don’t want to because the terms aren’t good enough yet’

Before the threat, US President Donald Trump said Tehran wanted ‘to make a deal, I don’t want to because the terms aren’t good enough yet’