Israel has reportedly launched an assassination attempt on Iranian securit chief Ali Larijani who taunted US President Donald Trump on the streets of Tehran last Friday.
The IDF is said to be investigating whether Larijani was killed in the attack which comes four days after he marched alongside thousands of Iranians at a Quds Day rally in Tehran where he criticised Trump during a live interview.
Meanwhile an Iranian drone struck a major oil terminal in the UAE today resulting in the second fire in as many days after the complex was attacked on Monday.
Oil loading operations were temporarily suspended at Fujairah, which sits on the Gulf of Oman, yesterday after the facility was hit causing a fire to break out.
Authorities in the UAE say another blaze has broken out today.
‘Civil defence teams from the emirate intervened immediately on site and are continuing their efforts to bring the situation under control,’ the authorities said in a statement on X.
Meanwhile details have emerged of a tanker attacked near Fujairah port yesterday.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said an unknown projectile caused minor structural damage with no injuries reported.
Ali Larijani has warned Donald Trump to ‘be careful not to be eliminated’ after Trump warned Iran it would face severe retaliation if it disrupted oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the Iranian nation was not afraid of what he called Trump’s threats.
‘Greater powers than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation,’ he wrote on X, adding: “Be careful not to be eliminated.”
