Iran's military has vowed to respond after a US destroyer on Sunday fired on an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman that tried to evade a US naval blockade.
The military adviser to Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Wednesday warned that Iran would sink American ships in the Strait of Hormuz if the United States decided to "police" the key shipping bottleneck.
Iran has revealed that a potential breakthrough agreement with the United States was just steps away during high-level talks in Islamabad. However, the deal ultimately collapsed, according to Tehran’s top diplomat.
The Saudi finance minister was in Islamabad on Saturday in a show of "economic support", a source familiar with the matter told AFP, days after Pakistan said it would return billions in loans to Riyadh's ally-turned-rival the UAE.
The long-term fallout of the war in Iran is only beginning to take shape, but this much is clear: The conflict has left the Middle East unsettled, alliances strained and the world facing uncertain shifts in the balance of economic and military power.
Saudi Arabia said on Thursday that the attacks carried out in recent weeks by Iran against the kingdom's energy infrastructure killed one person and impacted its oil production capacity.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday pledged to advance peace efforts during a phone call with his Lebanese counterpart Nawaf Salam as Israel continued its relentless attacks on the country.
